Cyber-crime is on the move by Claudia Sonea

Technology keeps surprising us; the bad news is that despite it is mostly good there are some issues that require attention. One of them was revealed at the meeting between France and Russia. There are networks of ‘phising', a phenomenon of stilling people's personal details through spam emails supposedly from banks or other institutions. The victims are the French and the villains are the Russian. That is why French and Russian cyber-crime experts met and wanted to join forces to put an end to organized crime networks targeting the Internet or at least to reduce its activity. In Moscow police, investigators and business representatives among which the French Banking Federation it is also. Christian Aghroun, the head of the French delegation and chief of the Central Office Against Technology, Information and Communication Crime (OCLCTIC), stated for the AFP that the purpose of the four hour conference on Thursday was to tie more close the relations between the two countries, approaching issues like online fraud, children pornography, etc. There isn't anymore about students with a lot of free time on their hand and plans to release a virus in a building headquarters. It's a dangerous and massive crime network handling stuff like money laundering and distribution networks. The problem doesn't involve only these two countries, but it is worldwide spread. Therefore, be careful what email you are reading and never trust senders that you don't know. Surf on, internet lovers.

related story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070927/ttc-france-russia-internet-crime-0de2eff_1.html

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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