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Anti-Cybercrime Network Grows
Posted by admin in news: general on March 16th, 2009
More countries are joining a network designed to quickly react to
cybercrime incidents around the world, a senior U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation official said Wednesday.
Fifty-six nations are now part of the 24/7 Network, which means a
country has a computer security official available at all times to help
meet requests for data or preservation of data from another nation, said Christopher Painter, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s
cyberdivision.
Becoming part of the network is required under the Convention on
Cybercrime, an international treaty that sets a legal model for other
countries to follow when writing anti-cybercrime legislation.
Of 47 countries that are part of the Council of Europe, 24 have ratified the treaty, and 23 others have signed it but are awaiting their national legislatures to ratify it. Countries outside the Council are invited to accede to the treaty, meaning they have national laws in line with the treaty.
(Infosec via IDG)