Cyber Crime in Ireland

Procrastastudy

http://www.thejournal.ie/student-convicted-anonymous-hacking-705810-Dec2012/

I'm curious as to what provisions in there are in Ireland to prosecute a similar case.

Do we have the technical expertise to track down cyber offenders? Or is it some lad sitting there with free-ware software and a copy of 'Hacking for Dummies' somewhere at AGS HQ?

Tom Young

S.9 Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act 2001;
S.6 as above - circumstantial;
S.2 ss. (2) & (5) and S.5 Criminal Damage Act 1991; and
Some others under the P&T Act 1983, as amended.

DDos proofs might be problematic. Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011, would assist with that.

DPP v Lennon - here: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2006/1201.html
Linked to S.5 of 1991 CD Act works in my head.

Tom Young

Note: Data is defined as property under '91 Act. Nuanced as it is.

Tom Young

Periodic retention of footprint records: 12 months - Internet; 24 months telecoms.

Procrastastudy

Wow Mr Young, Thank you. I've not stumbled across a specialist subject have I?

Tom Young

No: Your query is very de rigueur!

68Murph68

Procrastastudy wrote: »

http://www.thejournal.ie/student-convicted-anonymous-hacking-705810-Dec2012/

I'm curious as to what provisions in there are in Ireland to prosecute a similar case.

Do we have the technical expertise to track down cyber offenders? Or is it some lad sitting there with free-ware software and a copy of 'Hacking for Dummies' somewhere at AGS HQ?

There is a specialist unit the Computer Crime Investigations Unit. The guy in charge was Detective Inspector Paul Gillen (not sure he still is) but it looks the expertise is in place.

Detective Inspector Paul Gillen - Head National Computer Crime Unit - An Garda Siochana

Detective Inspector Paul Gillen is the head of the Computer Crime Investigation Unit (CCIU), a specialised unit within the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation charged with investigating computer-related crime. Paul is also head of the Garda National Fraud Assessment Unit at the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation. A member of the force since 1983, he has been working in the area of Computer Crime investigation since 1996. Paul holds a Master of Science degree from the School of Computer Science & Informatics at UCD.

He is the head of delegation for Ireland on the Interpol Working party on IT crime - Lyon and also head of delegation for Ireland on the Europol expert group on cybercrime - The Hague. Paul has been nominated as chair of the Europol Cybercrime Training sub group which develops policy on training of hi-tech crime investigators across all EU member states.

Paul was the project manager on a Falcone Project co-funded by the EU Commission and the Irish Department of Justice of Equality and Law reform. This project published three reports; one of which outlined the requirement for the development of cybercrime training for specialist investigators within the EU.

Paul is currently also the project manager on a further AGIS co-funded project which has developed and delivered academically accredited training for cyber crime investigators across the EU.

Paul is also the chairman of the academic advisory board for a newly founded MSc degree for law enforcement cybercrime investigators internationally at University College Dublin.

Paul is the chairman of the Europol Cyber Crime Experts training Sub Group in The Hague in 2006.

http://www.iriss.ie/iriss/iriss_conference_2009.htm

dalta5billion

Brooke Old Coyote wrote: »

If the FBI can do jack sh1t about Silk road and all the other shenanigans on TOR, good luck to PJ and the boys sorting it.

Agreed. Also, that conference call email code gotten by one of the Irish fellows was addressed to two gardai, one of them them Paul Gillen IIRC. One of the two forwarded emails to a personal account, which was hacked by the Irish fellow. And thus the Irish embarrassed the entire international force working to bring down Lulz/Anti-sec.
Silk road, if it ever gets shut down, will be done through physical detective work rather than technical analysis. Tor hidden sites are nearly untouchable.

Although every year researchers come out with papers on possible timing attacks etc.

From a legal perspective, I know that a Tor exit node operator (I.e. where your normal (non-hidden site) traffic appears to come from) has been charged as his nodes were used to lookup child porn on the regular internet.

Which doesn't make sense, like busting a drug selling hangout and arresting all the customers rather than the drug dealer who's right there.

If they can seize pirate domains, why not child porn ones?
(This doesn't apply to tor hidden domains: the URLs are a cryptographic decentralised thing.)