Interpol's Corporate Health Plan

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Reuters
12:45 p.m. Jun. 29, 2000 PDT

LONDON -- Interpol is to provide intelligence to a private website to
help businesses defend themselves against global cybercrime, the
company involved said on Thursday.

Atomic Tangerine, an independent U.S. venture consulting firm, said
the organization that groups 178 national police forces had agreed to
pass on relevant information about hacking, stolen goods, fraud, and
other dangers to corporate health.

It will be made available for free to any bona fide company.

In return, Atomic Tangerine will pass on to Interpol information it
gathers from extensive monitoring of the Internet by computers and its
team of researchers.

Chief executive Jonathon Fornaci, keen to stress tip-offs would flow
in both directions, said his Net Radar service had already tipped off
authorities about a Pakistani Internet service provider that Western
hackers, without being noticed, had taken over in order to launch Web
attacks.

Fornaci, in London, told Reuters the idea began at an Internet Defense
Summit, organized by Atomic Tangerine in California's Silicon Valley
last month, where Interpol Secretary General Raymond Kendall pledged
cooperation with major corporations.

"The private sector must defend itself because government agencies do
not have the technology to do the job," Kendall said.

Kendall and Fornaci finalized the plan in a meeting at Interpol
headquarters in Lyon, France, on Monday and details will be unveiled
at the next security summit in London on October 18.

"Assistance by Interpol can contribute to the private sector's
essential self-defense. At the same time, information gathered by some
private companies may be of substantial assistance to government
agencies," they said in a joint statement.

California-based Atomic Tangerine was originally founded at SRI
International, formerly the Stanford Research Institute -- inventor of
the computer mouse and recipient of the world's first email.

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