U.S. and Europe Jointly Establish Cyber-Crime Force

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124632958157771629.html
U.S. and Europe Jointly Establish Cyber-Crime Force
By JENNIFER CLARK
ROME -- The U.S. Secret Service plans to unveil Tuesday plans for a
pan-European task force charged with preventing identity theft, computer
hacking and other computer-based crime.

The unit will be based in Rome, teaming up with an Italian
anti-cyber-crime police unit and the Italian post office Poste Italiane
SpA, which has developed software that can track electronic payments as it
moves beyond traditional mail delivery.

The European Electronic Crime Task Force's main job will group together
the cyber-crime efforts of the European Union nations and the U.S.,
bolstering defenses against computer attacks on embassies and other
government sites that host sensitive computer systems such as air-traffic
control. It will also monitor computer networks for threats, as well as
deal with attacks once they happen.

"The transnational nature of cyber attacks requires international
collaboration and expertise, as exemplified by this joint professional
partnership," said Robert Gombar, a special agent in charge of the Secret
Service's Rome field office, which coordinates its activities in southern
Europe and the Mediterranean.

Under the terms of the agreement, the new task force will monitor computer
networks across Europe using software designed by Poste Italiane. The
software could comb through money transfers performed over the Internet
for suspicious signs, such as an account being opened by the same person
in several different places, according to Poste Italiane Chief Executive
Massimo Sarmi.

In recent years many Italians, as well as newly arrived immigrants, have
begun to use Poste Italiane's 14,000-branch postal system as a bank to
deposit their paychecks and pay their bills. Poste Italiane users can also
make payments online. Poste Italiane now makes more money from banking and
insurance services than it does from sending letters and packages. Of the
€50 billion ($70 billion) that crosses Poste Italiane's electronic network
each month, total theft amounts to "a few hundred thousand euros" per
month, said Mr. Sarmi.

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