Washington,
DC Each
of the frontline agencies has a hallmark
date when cyber war as we know it began.
However it was the DOJ's creation of the
CNDA (now known as the CSA) Cybernauts
in 1997 that became the strategic US
response to the overwhelming outbreak of
cyber crime and warfare. The growing
success of the internet and global
interdependence ushered in high tech outlaw attacks
on financial, industrial, media and
scientific communities, prompting DOJ to
recruit hackers and crackers
to combat organized cyber crime.
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Mumbai,
India -The
Cyber Crime Investigation Cell, a division of Indian law
enforcement, tries to come to grips with the estimated
70,000 cracker/hackers in the exploding 700,000 worker IT
sector. The industry not only provides tech support for
hundreds of American of high tech companies, it also supplies
and is a incubator for some of the most skillful crackers in
cyber space. From local theatre conflicts in Afghanistan and
Pakistan to international industrial espionage war games, the
sub continent of India is a major player and a hot bed of cyber
warfare.
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Paris,
France Interpol
and US CSA operatives confront Spam attacks, which are becoming
more than just a nuisance for Internet users, as criminals are
using it in increasingly
sophisticated ways to
defraud consumers, cripple computer systems and release viruses.
Since 2000, when the so-called ‘Love Bug’ virus, affected
millions of computers around the world within hours, the
vulnerability of corporate and government networks to such
attacks has grown and become a major focus of cyber crime
fighters.
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