From: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05at_private> 23Jun98 UK: NEW UNIT TO COMBAT HIGH-TECH CRIME (230). from YOMIURI SHIMBUN, June 05, 1998 The National Police Agency plans to create a special "cyberpolice" unit to combat the rise in high-tech crimes involving the Internet and other new technologies, the agency said Wednesday in announcing its new high-tech crime program. Information will be exchanged with its investigative counterparts overseas on a 24-hour-a-day basis, it said. The program will include special high-tech crime squads at the prefectural level, and information security advisers at prefectural police stations who will liaise directly with the private sector, with which the NPA wants to coordinate its efforts. The agency will also request a budget for a "hacker-proof" supercomputer next fiscal year. The NPA recorded 263 high-tech crimes last year-eight times more than in 1992. High-tech crime was on the agenda of the Group of Eight summit meeting in Britain last month, where the eight leaders agreed to report on their efforts to combat high-tech crime at the G-8 summit in Cologne, Germany, next year. The NPA said Japan's current laws are inadequate and it would push to have new laws enacted to limit access to computers by those with criminal intent. -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
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