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18/09/2012
The EU faces massive proliferation of cyber-crime yet police are often unable to trace the criminals as they are both quick and anonymous, Troels Oerting, the head of the new European Cybercrime Centre, told MEPs at a hearing in Brussels this week, adding that “there is no absolute security, it is a myth”.
He believes the solution is to improve legal norms and public awareness, and to make sure that activities illegal in the “offline world” are also illegal in the online one. Some EU countries, however, are unable to cope with the high number of cases and don’t have the budget to investigate the cyber-crimes, especially when they are cross-border. "I hate to say it, but when we invite [people] to meetings about Europol investigations, half of the most critical countries don't come. They haven't got the money for travelling," Oerting admitted.
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