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Justice Department urges public-private cooperation on cyber issues

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Justice Department urges public-private cooperation on cyber issues

A task force report issued by the U.S. Justice Department on Thursday discusses the range of cyber crimes and calls for closer collaboration between the department and the private sector in addressing the issue.

The task force was established by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in February.

“Every day, criminals and other hackers within the United States and around the world seek to use computers, smart devices, and other chip-enabled technology — as well as the networks to connect them — to victimize American consumers and businesses, or to do our government harm,” says the 143-page Report of the Attorney General’s Cyber Digital Task Force.

Among the cyber crimes described in the report are distributed denial of service attacks and ransomware; data theft including that of personally identifiable information and intellectual property; fraud schemes; and cyber-enabled crimes that threaten personal privacy and threaten critical infrastructure

The report says the key investigative techniques to address cyber threats include gathering materials during incident response; reviewing open source data; conducting online reconnaissance; searching records from online providers; undertaking undercover investigations; engaging in authorized electronic surveillance; tracing financial transactions; searching storage media; and applying a variety of special techniques.

“Often, investigators also must work cooperatively with foreign partners to access evidence and disrupt transnational cyber theaters,” says the report.

The report says the relationship that the Justice Department, including the FBI, builds and maintain with the private sector “is critical to our efforts to combat cybercrime, and the department and private sectors “already have engaged in numerous formal and informal collaborations.

“Even so, the department must deepen these relationships, particularly as technology evolves and the cast of service providers and technology manufacturers continues to change,” said the report.

A former Justice Department official has said companies should focus on resilience and managing crises when it comes to cyber threats. 

 

 

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