Cybercrime think tank established
The explosion in UK-based cybercrime has led the British Computer Society (BCS) to set up a specialist think tank to offer expertise to the police and others fighting increasingly sophisticated online fraud.
The explosion in UK-based cybercrime has led the British Computer Society (BCS) to set up a specialist think tank to offer expertise to the police and others fighting increasingly sophisticated online fraud.
The newly-formed BCS Cybercrime Forensics Specialist Group will give special attention to the role cybercrime forensics the use of scientifically proven methods to gather, process and interpret digital evidence for criminal investigations could play in the lead-up to, and during, the London 2012 Olympic Games.
According to the latest Internet Crime Report, the UK has the second highest number of perpetrators of cybercrime estimated to cost around £6 billon a year in the world after the US.
The new group will focus on the latest developments in cybercrime forensics in the UK, worldwide legal issues surrounding cybercrime forensics and the process of accrediting expert witnesses in court cases.
It will also work closely with the National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA).
Denis Edgar-Nevill, the groups chairman and a BCS Fellow, said: We particularly want to look at how the Chinese tackled this issue in the lead-up to last years Olympic Games.
The group will help develop standards for the recovery and analysis of information and advise on the creation of laws, training and accreditation for those preparing criminal court case material. It will also offer to assess the quality of software tools used by police cybercrime forensic teams.
