Cyber Terror Response Center
Cyber Terror Response Center (abbr. CTRC, also from 2007 known as NETAN, from net+an, an meaning safety in Korean language[1]) is a cybercrime section of the Korean National Police Agency in South Korea.[1]
The Center was established in 2000, from the Computer Crime Investigation Squad (itself established in 1997).[1][2] It is headquartered in the KNPA main building.[1]
Services
[edit | edit source]As of July 2008, the Center had over 900 employees; majority of them police officers specializing in the cybercrime investigations.[1]
The Center investigates cybercrimes, incidents of cyber terrorism, and provides digital forensics services to the Korean police.[1] As of 2012, the Center website stated that each year, about 80,000 incidents of cybercrimes are reported in South Korea; and cites a 2006 breakdown into fraud (41%), intrusion and malware (23%), online defamation (10%), illegal web content (8%), copyright violations (3%) and other crimes (15%).[3]
Examples of the Center's actions include a campaign to reduce online slander and cyber bullying in 2008 (launched in the aftermath of the suicide of an actress Choi Jin-sil),[4] a raid on Korean Google offices to investigate privacy issues concerning Google's Street View service in 2010,[5][6][7] cracking down on online discussions about bomb making in 2011,[8] and busting an illegal online gambling operation in 2012.[9]
International connections
[edit | edit source]The Center hosts an international conference, the Annual Symposium on Cyber Terror (or International Symposium on Cybercrime Response), inaugurated together with the Center in 2000.[1][10] The Center has numerous international connections, from Interpol to hotlines and memorandums of understandings with a number of foreign cybercrime investigations agencies.[1]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c d e f g h Junsik Jang, THE CURRENT SITUATION AND COUNTERMEASURES TO CYBERCRIME AND CYBER-TERROR IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA Archived 2013-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, RESOURCE MATERIAL SERIES No.79 139TH INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE VISITING EXPERTS' PAPERS
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