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Law Enforcement at Disadvantage in War on Cyber Crime

William Jackson writes on GCN.com:

The two things law enforcement and government need to combat the epidemic of cybercrime is better information sharing and better information to share, a panel of security experts on Capitol Hill concluded Monday.

The panel was put together by the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus to discuss cybersecurity threat assessment. The picture they painted was a familiar one of increasingly sophisticated online criminals responsible for a global crime wave that law enforcement has neither the technical nor legal resources to combat.

“Information sharing is one of the keys to solving this problem,” said Gary Warner, of the computer and information sciences department of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Warner said that when some banks began sharing lists of compromised IP addresses to compare with fraudulent account activity, they were able to prevent some losses. But that kind of cooperation still is not common, especially in government, said Keith Rhodes of the Government Accountability Office’s Center for Technology and Engineering.

posted by Fergie @ 10/22/2007 01:47:00 PM