[infowar.de] Russia tries to unite world against cyber-crime

[Ralf Bendrath <bendrath -! - zedat - fu-berlin - de>]

"the danger from online attacks is now as great as the threat from major 
weaponry"...

http://www.computing.co.uk/vnunet/news/2154412/russia-tries-unite-world

Russia tries to unite world against cyber-crime

Internet crime as deadly as weapons of mass destruction, says Russia's 
interior minister

Matt Chapman, vnunet.com 20 Apr 2006

The Russian interior minister has called for the world to take a united 
stand against online criminals.

Rashid Nurgaliyev told a Moscow press conference for the International 
Anti-Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism Forum that the danger from online 
attacks is now as great as the threat from major weaponry.

"The consequences of online attacks could even prove to be comparable with 
the use of weapons of mass destruction," he said.

Nurgaliyev added that criminals are now using a wide arsenal of 
technologies against the information infrastructure, and that the number 
of attacks is increasing.

"The creation of a solid barrier to prevent the spread of these practices, 
with a clear cross-border character, is impossible without unifying all 
the affected countries," he said.

Russia has often been named as the source of extortion rackets, phishing 
attacks and hacking, as well as the origin of a number of viruses.

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