Secret Service teams
with Italy; Forms new task forces domestically
On June 30, 2009, the U.S. Secret Service announced a new
initiative with the Italian Postal Service to set up an international task
force to combat cyber crime. The European Electronic Crime Task Force will investigate
identity theft, hacking and other computer-based crime from a headquarters in
Rome. The initiative will be open to contributions from other European countries,
private IT operators and academic institutions.
On July 10, the Secret Service announce the expansion of its
domestic Electronic Crimes Task Force (ECTF) program with the addition of three
new ECTFs located in St. Louis, Kansas City, and New Orleans.The program builds regionally-based
public-private partnerships aimed at fighting high-tech and computer-based
crimes. The types of investigations handled by the Electronic Crimes Task
Forces encompass a wide range of computer-based criminal activity, including
network intrusions, hacking cases, identity theft, and other computer related
crimes affecting financial and other critical infrastructures.
The addition of these four new ECTFs brings the total number
of such task forces to 28.
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