Cyber Crime in Ireland

markwho

Surely Ireland must be one of the easiest countries to commit cyber crime from.
The irish police/government have never once requested information of google pertaining to cyber crime.
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/
Does anyone know what cyber crime fighting is actually like in Ireland?
When i think of it, all i can think of is gardai confiscatiing someones pc and the first thing they get is the monitor.
Priceless stuff

CreepingDeath

Define "cyber crime".

IRMA sometimes get a court order for the details of certain IP addresses who were downloading torrents from internet providers.

The guards do prosecute people for child porn.

ATM skimming gangs get caught from time to time.

So you really have to define what cyber crime you're specifically talking about.
Are you talking about hacking websites and distributing spam / malware ?
Ireland doesn't exactly have much of a culture of that.

markwho

Personally i'd hardly consider torrents cyber crime as they are kinda victimless, buts that a debate for another day. I think its against the rule to even discuss the legitimacy of torrents.

What I'd consider cyber crime personally is illegal access to another persons system/database through the use of the internet, particularly crimes involving the use of a computer AND a network.

I wouldn't even go so far as to say people caught with child porn would be cyber crime either, as thats more of a means of the crime of peadophilia, rather than the crime of paedophilia.
I imagine it would be like charging someone who was robbing a bank, and used a getaway car with driving without tax.

Its just with this whole debacle with lulzsec and anonymous, kinda got me thinking about cyber security in Ireland, which is pretty non existent. And with a non existent cyber security culture, does that not make it very easy for a cyber crime to culture to blossom. Does it not make Irish sites lacking in security perhaps, sites which we trust to safeguard our information.

kravicecreama

agree with CreepingDeath a bit. I think you need to define what you mean by "cyber crime" on this one.Are we talking website defacement,ddos attacks on .ie sites, ddos from ireland or evidence of persistent hack attempts on state/business.
on the other hand the "success" rate of the entire cold calling "hello this is microsoft/insert anti-v corporation name/ and we need access to your computer" scam seems to have a higher hit rate here than in the uk.this seems to point to a lack of security savy on end users rather than a lack of a state sponsored anti cyber unit.
What would be a more interesting question might be...what policy's are in place to protect the country from some kind of sustained,organized assault on the it infrastructure of the country. I am thinking in particalur of the russian millitary action in georgia, where key websites were taken out

http://georgiaupdate.gov.ge/doc/10006922/CYBERWAR-%20fd_2_.pdf

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=3925497

I am not suggesting that russia or anyone has us in their sites, for now, but the question is still valid. Do we have a government lead plan to deflect such potential attacks or is it gonna be every man/company for themselves.