http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11465521 24.04.2007 MOSCOW, April 24 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's Interior Ministry exposed 150 extremist and terrorist websites this year, head of the department Rashid Nurgaliyev told reporters on Tuesday. "More than half the sites were found in foreign segments of the Internet," Nurgaliyev said. The Russian segment has 72 such sites the USA - 49, the Netherlands - six, Germany - five and Great Britain's - four. The information on the above sites in foreign segments of the Internet has been forwarded to law-enforcement bodies of these countries, the Russian interior minister said. He called for "pooling efforts in developing uniform mechanisms of preventing the use of the global information and telecommunication space for spreading the ideology of terrorism." "It is necessary to develop international cooperation with the view of resolving the complex problem of information security and fight against cyber terrorism, including the working out of a frame of reference and legal tools," he emphasized. "That is way it is necessary that businesses and public organizations join the efforts to counteract terrorism and its ideology," Nurgaliyev said. __________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org
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