Cyber Terror Response Center (abbr. CTRC, also from 2007 known as NETAN, from net+an, ''an'' meaning ''safety'' in
Korean language
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[) is a ]cybercrime
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section of the Korean National Police Agency
The Korean National Police Agency (KNPA; ), also known as the Korean National Police (KNP), is one of the national police organizations in South Korea. It is run under the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and is headquartered in Seodaemun, S ...
in South Korea
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The Center was established in 2000, from the Computer Crime Investigation Squad (itself established in 1997).][
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Services
As of July 2008, the Center had over 900 employees; majority of them police officers specializing in the cybercrime investigations.[
The Center investigates cybercrimes, incidents of cyber terrorism, and provides ]digital forensics
Digital forensics (sometimes known as digital forensic science) is a branch of forensic science encompassing the recovery, investigation, examination, and analysis of material found in digital devices, often in relation to mobile devices and com ...
services to the Korean police.[ As of 2012, the Center website stated that each year, about 80,000 incidents of cybercrimes are reported in South Korea; and cites a 2006 breakdown into ]fraud
In law, fraud is intent (law), intentional deception to deprive a victim of a legal right or to gain from a victim unlawfully or unfairly. Fraud can violate Civil law (common law), civil law (e.g., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrato ...
(41%), intrusion and malware
Malware (a portmanteau of ''malicious software'')Tahir, R. (2018)A study on malware and malware detection techniques . ''International Journal of Education and Management Engineering'', ''8''(2), 20. is any software intentionally designed to caus ...
(23%), online defamation
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(10%), illegal web content (8%), copyright violation
Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, ...
s (3%) and other crimes (15%).slander
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and cyber bullying
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in 2008 (launched in the aftermath of the suicide of an actress Choi Jin-sil
Choi Jin-sil (; December 24, 1968 – October 2, 2008) was a South Korean actress. She was considered one of the greatest actresses in South Korea, nicknamed "The Nation's Actress" for playing leading roles in some of the highest-rated Korean ...
),Google
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offices to investigate privacy issues concerning Google's Street View
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Worldwide
* Google Street View is the most comprehensive street view service in the world. It provides street view for more than 85 ...
service in 2010,
International connections
The Center hosts an international conference, the Annual Symposium on Cyber Terror (or International Symposium on Cybercrime Response), inaugurated together with the Center in 2000.Interpol
The International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL (abbreviated as ICPO–INTERPOL), commonly known as Interpol ( , ; stylized in allcaps), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and crime cont ...
to hotlines and memorandums of understandings with a number of foreign cybercrime investigations agencies.[
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See also
* Internet censorship in South Korea
Internet censorship in South Korea is prevalent, and contains some unique elements such as the blocking of pro-North Korea websites, and to a lesser extent, Japanese websites, which led to it being categorized as "pervasive" in the conflict/secur ...
References
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[{{cite web , url=http://iscr.netan.go.kr/iscr2012/about/his_2010.html , title=:: ISCR 2012 :: , publisher=Iscr.netan.go.kr , date=2010-09-15 , accessdate=2012-12-22 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130219023946/http://iscr.netan.go.kr/iscr2012/about/his_2010.html , archivedate=2013-02-19 ]
[{{cite web, url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/10/117_122046.html , title=Korean gamblers targeted , publisher=]The Korea Times
''The Korea Times'' () is a daily English-language newspaper in South Korea. It is a sister paper of the ''Hankook Ilbo'', a major Korean language, Korean-language daily.
It is the oldest active daily English-language newspaper in South Korea. ...
, date=2012-10-11 , access-date=2012-12-22
[{{cite web , url=http://www.ctrc.go.kr/eng/about/history.jsp , title=Netan: history , publisher=Ctrc.go.kr , accessdate=2012-12-22 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218213419/http://www.ctrc.go.kr/eng/about/history.jsp , archive-date=2013-02-18 , url-status=dead ]
[{{cite web , url=http://www.ctrc.go.kr/eng/crime/target.jsp , title=Netan: target , publisher=Ctrc.go.kr , accessdate=2012-12-22 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20130219045710/http://www.ctrc.go.kr/eng/crime/target.jsp , archive-date=2013-02-19 , url-status=dead ]
[{{cite book, author1=Myung Oh, author2=James Larson, title=Digital Development in Korea, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OZpdqhsPHnQC&pg=PA162, accessdate=22 December 2012, date=14 March 2011, publisher=Taylor & Francis, isbn=978-1-136-81313-9, pages=162–]
[{{cite web, url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/05/113_87151.html , title=Police to crack down on bomb info-sharing sites , publisher=]The Korea Times
''The Korea Times'' () is a daily English-language newspaper in South Korea. It is a sister paper of the ''Hankook Ilbo'', a major Korean language, Korean-language daily.
It is the oldest active daily English-language newspaper in South Korea. ...
, date=2011-05-17 , access-date=2012-12-22
[{{cite web, url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-01/13/c_13689543.htm , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110117123727/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-01/13/c_13689543.htm , url-status=dead , archive-date=January 17, 2011 , title=S Korean police bring charges against Google for illegally collecting private info , publisher=News.xinhuanet.com , date=2011-01-13 , accessdate=2012-12-22]
[{{cite web, last=Protalinski , first=Emil , url=https://thenextweb.com/google/2010/08/10/south-korea-sends-in-cyber-terror-police-over-google-street-view-wifi-data/ , title=South Korea sends in Cyber Terror police over Google Street View wifi data , publisher=The Next Web , date=2010-08-10 , accessdate=2012-12-22]
[Police in South Korea Raid Google’s Office](_blank)
New York Times, 2010/08/11/
[Junsik Jang]
THE CURRENT SITUATION AND COUNTERMEASURES TO CYBERCRIME AND CYBER-TERROR IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA
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External links
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a short clip about CTRC on YouTube
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