Organization: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
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
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
- Internet censorship in South Korea
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Junsik Jang, THE CURRENT SITUATION AND COUNTERMEASURES TO CYBERCRIME AND CYBER-TERROR IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA , RESOURCE MATERIAL SERIES No.79 139TH INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE VISITING EXPERTS' PAPERS
- ↑ "Netan: history". Ctrc.go.kr. http://www.ctrc.go.kr/eng/about/history.jsp. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
- ↑ "Netan: target". Ctrc.go.kr. http://www.ctrc.go.kr/eng/crime/target.jsp. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
- ↑ Myung Oh; James Larson (14 March 2011). Digital Development in Korea. Taylor & Francis. pp. 162–. ISBN 978-1-136-81313-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=OZpdqhsPHnQC&pg=PA162. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
- ↑ Protalinski, Emil (2010-08-10). "South Korea sends in Cyber Terror police over Google Street View wifi data". The Next Web. https://thenextweb.com/google/2010/08/10/south-korea-sends-in-cyber-terror-police-over-google-street-view-wifi-data/. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
- ↑ "S Korean police bring charges against Google for illegally collecting private info". News.xinhuanet.com. 2011-01-13. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-01/13/c_13689543.htm. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
- ↑ Police in South Korea Raid Google’s Office, New York Times, 2010/08/11/
- ↑ "Police to crack down on bomb info-sharing sites". Koreatimes.co.kr. 2011-05-17. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/05/113_87151.html. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
- ↑ "Korean gamblers targeted". Koreatimes.co.kr. 2012-10-11. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/10/117_122046.html. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
- ↑ ":: ISCR 2012 ::". Iscr.netan.go.kr. 2010-09-15. Archived from the original on 2013-02-19. https://archive.today/20130219023946/http://iscr.netan.go.kr/iscr2012/about/his_2010.html. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
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