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21 May 2002

Cyber-Crime and Cyber-Terrorism in Korea

Korea has (by far) the highest broadband penetration in the world with about 7.8 million households with broadband connectivity, representing 30% of Korea's 25 million Internet users (2001). Here in Seoul at our workshop, we've just had a very interesting presentation on the present status of Cyber-Crime and Cyber-terrorism in Korea and the counter measures that the Korean Cyber-Terror Response Center of the Korean National Policy Agency are taking. In 2001, they made 7,595 arrests for hacking, virus attacks, etc. Of those, 1,473 they classified as cyber-terrorism. In Korea, they have 651 members of the police force dedicated to cyber-crime activites. 232 police stations have 495 police officers tasked to deal with cyber-crime. Absolutely amazing numbers indicating that the government has no tolerance for this activity. Is this the price that will be paid when broadband is deployed? I guess all those "always-on" broadband connections are tempting targets for launching zombie attacks...

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ITU Workshop on Critical Network Infrastructure

I'm in Seoul, Korea this week where our group, the ITU Strategy and Policy Unit, with the support of the Korean Administration is running a workshop on Creating Trust in Critical Network Infrastructures. Lots of thought-provoking papers and presentations are being given. Of course, the Koreans, with the World Cup coming up in a couple of weeks are paying lots of attention to cyber-security issues. I presented my first draft of a relevant case study on Brazil. I'll be updating this with comments I receive back from the organizations and people I met during the field research for this paper.

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