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Anglophone cybercops team up to fight fraud

James

Why no acronym... 

Stop

Strategic Alliance Cyber Crime Working Group (SACCWoG).

Ah I see why.....

jeremy

emerging threats? 

Alert

"It's also created a series of information bulletins on emerging threats, such as data leakage on P2P networks" ... more like data leakage from governments, big companies and other people we trust.

Perhaps if we rightly classed our own governments actions online as cybercrime, then we might be onto something here...

Kevin Kitchen

Limited yes, but still better than nothing 

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"The Anglophone group is all well as good but until it incorporates law enforcement officials from the likes of Russia, the Ukraine, Brazil and China - all hubs of cybercrime - its scope will be necessarily limited."

Yes, but its a start, and its better than each of those individual countries working individually on the same issues.

And they do say: From small acorns, great oak trees do grow.

Dave Stout

@Kevin 

Coat

Nice to see someone being positive for a change......

*takes a leaf from Kev's acorn tree*

Anonymous Coward

Anglophone? 

Paris Hilton

Wouldn't be surprised if the head of the Canadian contingent is french, though.

Paris because, well, sounds french.

Anonymous Coward

What's the point of an anglophone-only group? 

Forming a group based on shoe size would make just as much sense.