Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Lessons from organised crime task forces: Brazil and beyond

... simultaneously ring-fencing them from political influence is essential. The Brazilian struggle Brazil is no stranger to organized crime. The country is wracked by prolific drug and arms smuggling, cyber-crime and money laundering. Neighboring three cocaine-producing countries, Brazil experiences considerable narcotics trans-shipment and consumption. It already registers more homicides - roughly 58...

Posted on 16 Oct 2017

Private Sector

The Trouble with Transparency: Increased identity fraud in Sweden’s digital age

...In July, Alf Göransson declared himself bankrupt. He was consequently automatically de-registered as the President and CEO of Securitas, a leading global cyber-security company. What Göransson proved in court, however, is that the declaration of bankruptcy a malicious act by someone who hacked his identity five months earlier carried out without his kno...

Posted on 16 Oct 2017

Global Initiative

Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA)

...The 2017 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) reports how cybercrime continues to grow and evolve. While many aspects of cybercrime are firmly established, other areas of cybercrime have witnessed a striking upsurge in activity, including attacks on an unpreceden...

Posted on 28 Sep 2017

RESPECT

Webinar: Law Enforcement and New Media Solutions

...icking The fifth webinar of the New technologies, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Tackling Human Trafficking webinar series was held on Thursday, April 20 , 2017. With the altering terrain of cyberspace, criminal activity has been greatly impacted. Law enforcement and other key stakeholders face new challenges with addressing this crime. However, technology provides significant avenues to disco...

Posted on 20 Apr 2017

Global Initiative

Event: Forward thinking on transnational threats

...ommerce explored by global counterfeit and smuggling networks? And how have technological innovations, which have made our lives and work so much easier, produced disconcerting vulnerabilities in the cyber domain that are increasingly being exploited by criminal groups, terrorists and hostile states alike? Michael Miklaucic is the Director of Research, Information and Publications at the Center for ...

Posted on 03 Mar 2017

Private Sector, RESPECT

Webinar: Awareness Raising and Campaigning: What and How Does Social Media Contribute to Identification and Responses?

..., Innovation and Entrepreneurship Tackling Human Trafficking webinar series was held on Thursday, May 18 , 2017  10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT/ 4:00 – 6:00 pm CEST With the altering terrain of cyberspace, criminal activity has been greatly impacted. Law enforcement and other key stakeholders face new challenges with addressing this crime. However, technology provides significant avenues to disco...

Posted on 13 Feb 2017

Global Initiative

Transnational organised crime – Thematic Study Clingendael Strategic Monitor 2017

...Introduction This report focuses on the main trends in the area of transnational organised crime that affect security interests in the European Union (EU). In addition to terrorism and cybercrime, ‘serious and organised cross-border crime’ is prioritised in the European Agenda on Security (EAS). The priorities specified in the EAS are the focus of the analysis in this document: peopl...

Posted on 03 Feb 2017

Global Initiative

‘Sweden must act now to stop online piracy’

...hey are both enabling and making money from. The public should be informed that illegal streaming and file sharing exposes users to heightened risk of their computers being infected by malware and cyber crime. Cyber security is becoming increasingly important and targeted information campaigns could play an important role in minimizing risk behaviour. The justice system needs more resources and o...

Posted on 02 Aug 2016

Global Initiative

The Nexus? Organised crime and terrorism in Africa

The Nexus?

...ances, drugs, arms to other forms of illicit trade that are more ambiguous, normally legal goods such as medicines, tobacco, luxury goods or cars, as well as some of the more emerging types of crime: cybercrime, for example, is highly prevalent in Africa, in particular in West Africa. Due to the diverse nature of crime types, it is not easy to say “these are the root causes of organised crime in A...

Posted on 03 May 2016

Crime & Conflict

GIN Interview – Jean-Luc Peduzzi, Head of the Dakar Platform

...ons like illegal companies. If you are trafficking drugs you can make opportunistic moves into other kinds of illicit trade. For example, Nigerians involved in drug trafficking here are also running cybercrime, prostitution, bribery schemes and “love swindling” rackets, which see men from Northern Europe being lured here with the promise of young girls and then tricked by traffickers. Also, we a...

Posted on 30 Sep 2015

Wildlife Watch

Tackling timber and wildlife trafficking in ASEAN

...rrently, Asean's list of transnational organised crimes includes terrorism, human trafficking, illicit drug trafficking, money laundering, sea piracy, arms smuggling, international economic crime and cybercrime. Adding timber and wildlife trafficking to the list would raise the priority given to environmental crime in government policy, turning it into a security priority for Asean as a whole and for ...

Posted on 03 Aug 2015