Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
When Jaap van Oss first visited Pittsburgh in 2012, he knew he’d be in the company of “almost legendary cybercrime investigators,” he said. Mr. van Oss, the team leader of Europol’s European Cybercrime Center, couldn’t have known how the legend would grow. Back then, law enforcement was just starting to break out of its stop-at-the-border approach to crime, in response to the explosion of international online theft. Three years later, investigators in Pittsburgh are fresh from coordinating an unprecedented six-continent cybercrime bust that international law enforcement is touting as a new phase in combating data crimes. “I think that this operation shows that we can properly fight cybercrime,” said Mr. van Oss. “We should do it on an international level.” The factors that made Pittsburgh a cybercrime-fighting hub are well documented. Carnegie Mellon University’s 27-year-old cybersecurity team, the Oakland-based nonprofit National Cyber Forensic and Training Alliance, prosecutors dedicated to computer cases and the presence of celebrated online sleuths J. Keith Mularski and Chris Geary at the FBI branch here put the city on the map. Last week, Pittsburgh dominated the map. From offices in the Dixon Federal Building on the South Side, agents and analysts directed a takedown of the […]
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