EU to set up anti-cyber-crime centre

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Series Details 29.3.12
Publication Date 29/03/2012
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The European Commission proposed on the 28 March 2012 to establish a European Cybercrime Centre to help protect European citizens and businesses against these mounting cyber-threats. The centre will be established within the European Police Office, Europol in The Hague. The centre will be the European focal point in fighting cybercrime and will focus on illegal online activities carried out by organised crime groups, particularly those generating large criminal profits, such as online fraud involving credit cards and bank credentials.

The EU experts will also work on preventing cybercrimes affecting e-banking and online booking activities, thus increasing e-consumers trust. A focus of the European Cybercrime Centre will be to protect social network profiles from e-crime infiltration and will help the fight against online identity theft. It will also focus on cybercrimes which cause serious harm to their victims, such as online child sexual exploitation and cyber-attacks affecting critical infrastructure and information systems in the Union.

Source Link Link to Main Source http://euobserver.com/22/115735
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EurActiv, 29.3.12: EU prepares to launch first cybercrime centre http://www.euractiv.com/infosociety/eu-prepares-launch-cybercrime-ce-news-511823
European Commission: RAPID: Press Release, IP/12/317: An EU Cybercrime Centre to fight online criminals and protect e-consumers http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/12/317&format=PDF&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
European Commission: COM (2012)140: Communication: Tackling Crime in our Digital Age: Establishing a European Cybercrime Centre http://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/doc_centre/crime/docs/Communication%20-%20European%20Cybercrime%20Centre.pdf
ESO: Background information: Cybercrime http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-cybercrime/
BBC News, 28.3.12: Cybercrime: EU's 'best brains' to be enlisted to fight http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17541462
Deutsche Welle, 28.3.12: EU announces proposed cybercrime center http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15842119,00.html

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