Cybercrime and Internet General Resources
Australian High Tech Crime Centre: A national centre to coordinate the efforts of Australian law enforcement in combating serious crime involving complex technology.
National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre: The National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre (NCECC), was created to help protect children from online sexual exploitation. The NCECC is a national clearing house and coordination centre for all international requests to conduct investigations in Canada related to child sexual exploitation on the Internet; provides support to peace officers, in particular investigators involved in files dealing with child sexual exploitation on the Internet; works to builds relationships and collaborates with domestic and international partners to raise awareness and combat criminal activity which targets, exploits and abuses children; and will help develop standards and guidelines within Canada and provide many levels of support to law enforcement investigators involved in files dealing with the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet.
Computer Forensics, Cybercrime and Steganography Resources: Information links and online documents on cybercrime, the detection and analysis of cybercrime in/on computer systems, and data hiding/encryption.
Consumer Privacy Guide.org: Privacy Guide gives you useful tips for protecting your privacy and helps you take control of the way businesses collect and use information on visitors to their web sites.
Cybercrime - High Tech Crime: One of the most definitive write-ups on what exactly cybercrime is that's available on the web; included are sections on various types of cybercrime, with links leading to detailed information/background data on each sub-topic.
Cybercrime Resources: Many links to sites of interest, online documents and more. From John Harrison's Criminal Justice Resources mega-site.
Cybercrime.gov: The official US Dept. of Justice cybercrime home page. A wealth of information and links on all topic of cybercrime and US law.
Jargon File: The Jargon File is a compilation of the terms used within the context of information security (infosec). Rather than being a definitive dictionary, it tries to help you understand what other people might mean when you hear them use one of these terms.
IDG.net: An overall resource on internet and tech news, law, hardware, software and general issues..
Internet / Network Security from About.com: Just about everything you want to know about viruses, firewall, cryptography and much more. Highly recommended.
National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics: A central information site leading to a wide variety of sources on statistics, computer and IT information and development and other resources related to US Criminal Justice. The Clearinghouse -- one section of this site -- provides reviews of software and IT solutions, a database of justice agency requests for proposals, information on Justice agencies use of the web and provides a forum for practitioners and a listing of events of interest. Links include a listing of useful shareware, broken down by user types
Privacy International: Privacy International has been most prominent in North America, Europe and Asia, where it has liaised with local human rights organizations to raise awareness about the development of national surveillance systems. The network has also been used by law reform and human rights organizations in more than twenty countries to assist local privacy issues. In Thailand and the Philippines, for example, Privacy International worked with local human rights bodies to develop national campaigns against the establishment of government identity card systems.
Project Safe Childhood: Project Safe Childhood (PSC) aims to combat the proliferation of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes against children. This US government site include information on online sexual exploitation of children, provides the latest news on government efforts to curtail or prosecute this criminal act, provides links to other organizations working towards the protection of children online, and provides publications from these organizations.
RCMP Fraud Prevention Page: Hints, tips and background information on the different kinds of computer crimes and how they can be prevented, or reported in Canada.
Selecting Good Passwords: A simple but complete explanation of why passwords are important and how to choose effective passwords which are easy to remember.
The Center for the Study of Technology and Society: The purpose of the Center for the Study of Technology and Society is to study and report on the important technological issues that affect society.
US Dept. of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability Site: Information on computer security from the organization which oversees information system security at nuclear power plants.
