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Do All Cybercrime And Piracy Roads Lead To Sweden?

Posted: 2012/10/04 in Copyright, Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Organized Crime, Public Policy, Stats / reports

Police in Sweden say there is clear connection between a recent spate of cyber attacks targeting Swedish websites and the ongoing dispute over the deportation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

On Monday, a number of Swedish government agencies, banks, and media outlets – including The Local – had their websites crippled by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack.

During a DDOS attack, a website is bombarded with communication requests so that the servers become overloaded and the site crashes.

According to Anders Ahlqvist, an IT expert with the National Police Board (Rikspolisstyrelsen), the attacks are clearly connected to efforts by Sweden to extradite Assange from the UK to be questioned in an ongoing sex crimes investigation.

“As long as that continues, we’re probably going to see a lot of this,” he told the TT news agency.

Monday’s attack left the websites for Swedish banks SEB and Swedbank offline for extended periods around midday. Internet brokerage Nordnet was also affected.

Sweden’s main news agency, TT, was also taken offline by Monday’s attack.

The website of the Swedish Armed Forces (Försvarsmakten) was also hit.

According to Ahlqvist, police view Monday’s cyberattack as following a pattern recognized from other attacks in recent weeks.

More:
http://www.thelocal.se/43558/20121002/

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The New Zealand prime minister who authorized the raid the netted Megaupload.com founder Kim Dotcom in January now admits he was briefed on the possible illegality of the case less than a month after it went down

Posted: 2012/10/04 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Public Policy, Stats / reports

Forgot about the details of an investigation involving a man who had bought the most expensive residence in NZ

Only last month, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key publically apologized to Kim Dotcom, explaining that the mistakes carried out by the Government Communications and Security Bureau (GCSB) leading up to and during the January 20 raid on his Coatesville, NZ home was “appalling.”

“Of course I apologize to Mr. Dotcom. I apologize to New Zealand,” Mr. Key said. “I am personally very disappointed that the agency failed to fully understand the workings of its own legislation” when conducting surveillance of Dotcom in the period before his arrest.

Now, however, Mr. Key confirms that he sat in on a debriefing meeting with the GCSB on February 29, during which the state’s spy agency discussed details of the mission.

Mr. Key admits to attending the meeting, but blames “brain fade” for forgetting the actual events of the encounter. A Government Communications Security Bureau review now confirms that the prime minister was put in the know only weeks after Dotcom was arrested, and right at the start of a case that the defendant calls “politically motivated” and appears to be weakening by the moment.

“A paper prepared as talking points for the staff member conducting a presentation contained a short reference to the Dotcom arrest a few weeks earlier, as an example of cooperation between the GCSB and the police,” the GCSB investigation appeals.

More:
http://rt.com/news/new-zealand-kim-dotcom-615/