Preparing the digital defense
Iceland
Icelandic police have been trained by US agencies in various areas including customs/border/port security, CYBER security and computer crimes, hostage negotiation, crisis management, and several others. The training has been effective. The RSO notes evidence of the training in his interactions with the police. There has been no training
since Post,s last SEPQ response.
Brazil
Brazil is an OAS leader in addressing cybercrime and has worked with other South American states to push forward Cyber threat issues in cooperation with DOJ’s Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Additionally, Brazil is a member of the G-8′s 24/7 High Tech Crime Network. The 24/7 Network enables member states to assist each other to quickly identify and preserve electronic evidence located in another state. The DPF is moving towards an intelligence-driven, proactive investigative force with initiatives to combat Cyber Intrusion crimes particularly committed against the financial sector; crimes in the proliferation of child pornography/child sexual exploitation facilitated by online computer users; and in general crimes via the internet.
Norway
Stoltenberg also proposed a number of ideas which would increase civil cooperation including a Nordic stabilization task force, a joint disaster response unit, a Nordic resource network to protect against CYBER attacks, a war crimes investigation unit, cooperation between foreign services, and on Arctic issues. The need for cooperation in war crimes
prosecution, protection of infrastructure from CYBER attack and on Arctic issues is clear and relatively non-controversial. Cooperation between foreign services is much more difficult and will likely be limited to countries where none of the Nordics have representation now.
Greece
As for the HNP, he repeated his many public comments that Greece’s police force is not up to task of safeguarding society. As a result, he is restructuring it and trying to instill in it a new attitude toward its duties. Part of that drives includes creation of a new agency to fight CYBER crime, organized crime, etc. Vacancy notices already have gone out for 100 new positions to be filled by economists, computer specialists, etc., who will bring new, modern skills to the HNP. These 100 new hires will be merged with other officers and located in a new building, so that a fresh modern agency can be built. Chrysochoidis announced that this plan would be rolled out by the end of February, so that it can begin work in March.
Italy
On November 11, forty Sicilian business owners launched a new “anti-pizzo” association to assist entrepreneurs who refuse to pay extortion money. The group is called “Libero Futuro,” which translates “Free Future,” but also pays homage to Libero Grassi, a Sicilian businessman who was murdered in 1991 for refusing to pay the “pizzo.” In response to the organization’s founding, Palermo mayor Diego Cammarata promised 50,000 euros to assist merchants who have been victims of extortion. The association’s inauguration was attended by national political leaders; in fact, the auditorium was packed, whereas when a similar launch was attempted two years ago, only around 30 people showed up.
During the night of November 26, the offices of Confindustria in the central Sicilian city of Caltanissetta were broken into, and computer disks containing confidential details of business owners backing a campaign against the payment of protection money were stolen. Confindustria leaders immediately blamed the Mafia and declared that they would not be intimidated by the act.
