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PRESS RELEASE: second regional cybercrime co-operation exercise
The Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe, within the framework of Cybecrime@EAP 2018 and Global Action on Cybercrime Extended (GLACY+) projects, is supporting the joint efforts of the Computer Emergency Response Team Moldova and Computer Emergency Response Team Romania in the...
Cooperation with global service providers enhanced through regional cyber forum in Bulgaria
More than 300 cyber security experts from public and private sector, representatives of leading ICT companies, financial organisations, banks, pharmaceutical industry, logistics, energy and utility companies, NGOs, academia, law enforcement officials from over 20 countries, international...
Update of procedural legislation and public-private cooperation studies in the Eastern Partnership region
Meetings with criminal justice institutions, regulatory authorities and Internet service providers in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 12-13 October 2017, has opened the series of follow-up visits to Eastern Partnership states, which aim to update two studies developed previously by the Council of Europe:...
Support to internet governance events in Ukraine
As a part of the Cybercrime@EAP III project devoted to public-private cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence, the Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC) supported the annual Internet industry meetings in Kyiv, Ukraine, by contributing its expertise on strategic...
Cybercrime@EAP III and iPROCEEDS: Investigating cybercrime and its financial gain
Today the five-day cybercrime exercise finished. 50 prosecutors, cybercrime investigators, financial investigation/intelligence and cyber security specialists from 12 countries from Eastern Europe, South-eastern Europe and Turkey had to work together to solve a series of technical challenges...
Cybercrime@EAP III and iPROCEEDS: investigating cybercrime and its financial gain – working together effectively
A novel initiative comprising 12 countries from the Eastern Partnership Region, South-eastern Europe and Turkey was launched today in Tbilisi, Georgia through a Cybercrime Coordination and Partnership Exercise to explore and establish closer links between professional communities of cybercrime...
EAP II/EAP III: Training on International Cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence for the Eastern Partnership region
International cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence is a difficult and challenging task for criminal justice professionals. The prevalence of cybercrime and the challenges in reliably securing electronic evidence across national borders require a fast, efficient and meaningful...
Dialogue between law enforcement and Internet industry in Ukraine
The issue of proper legislative basis for law enforcement access to data held by private service providers extends beyond obvious need for having proper safeguards and guarantees in this process. It is also an issue of building trust in terms of public-private cooperation on cybercrime and...
EAP III: Armenia will gain insight into best practice on public-private cooperation on cybercrime
On 7-8 November 2016, the Cybercrime@EAP III project organized a session on public-private cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence in Yerevan, with the support and participation of the project country team comprising law enforcement, policy makers and the private sector (internet...
CyberCrime@EAP III: Regulatory efforts on public-private cooperation in Georgia and international Cyber Security event
Georgian authorities have been active in the area of addressing and regulating public-private cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence for a fairly long time. Georgia was one of the first countries of the region to adopt and implement the Memorandum of Cooperation between the law...
EAP III: Report on Ukraine regarding public-private cooperation on cybercrime
Cooperation between criminal justice authorities and private sector entities, including in particular service providers, is essential to protect society against crime. Such cooperation concerns primarily access by police and prosecution services to data held by service providers for criminal...
EAP III: Assessment of Moldovan legislative amendments on cybercrime and electronic evidence supported by the Council of Europe experts
On 2 and 3 November 2016, the Council of Europe experts, Ms. Cristina SCHULMAN, Legal Adviser to the International Law Department of the Ministry of Justice of Romania and Ms. Ioana ALBANI, Deputy Chief-Prosecutor of the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism - Prosecutor's...
Cybercrime and electronic evidence in the Eastern Partnership
The new joint project of the EU and the Council of Europe on Improving public/private cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence in the Eastern Partnership will be launched at a regional meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, from 6 to 7 April 2016. Meeting agenda The project aims to support countries...
CyberCrime@EAP II: Second International Meeting
A new international event under the CyberCrime@EAP II project on “Improving International Cooperation on Cybercrime in the Eastern Partnership Region” took place from 14-16 December 2015, in Tbilisi, Georgia. It was a second in a series of three international meetings on the topic, which was...
Second Regional Meeting on public-private cooperation in cybercrime
On 19-20 September, the Council of Europe Cybercrime Programme Office will hold a Second Regional Meeting of the Cybercrime@Eastern Partnership III Project in Minsk, Belarus, which will focus on issues of public-private cooperation in cybercrime and electronic evidence. The Regional Meeting is a...
Assessing law enforcement and service provider cooperation in fighting cybercrime
An assessment visit on public/private cooperation took place in Kyiv, Ukraine on March 30-1 April. This assessment will map current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and risks regarding public/private, and specifically law enforcement/service provider cooperation, in fighting cybercrime. The...
Fighting cybercrime together
How can Eastern Partnership countries work together to fight cybercrime? This is the topic that will be discussed at a project launch event in Bucharest, Romania (9-11 September 2015). Subject-matter experts in judicial and police cooperation from the six EAP countries Armenia, Azerbaijan,...
EaP cybercrime units attend Europol-INTERPOL Conference
The latest information on cybercrime threats and trends, as well as the practical aspects of recent cybercrime cases, were discussed at the 3rd Europol-INTERPOL Cybercrime Conference (September 30 – October 2 2015) held in the Hague. Experts in cybercrime from Eastern Partnership countries...