Police to Set Up Anti-Cyber Terror Unit
The National Police Agency (NPA) plans to create an anti-cyber terror unit within this year, following recent online government agency network hackings and the spread of images of the beheading of Korean translator Kim Sun-il in Iraq. “The envisioned unit will consist of 110 people and will be headed by a high-ranking police officer,¡¯¡¯ an NPA official said. A small division of the police agency has so far assumed full responsibility for coping with cyber terror. Accordingly, the division will be expanded to four sections _ the prevention of cyber terror activities, development of technologies to bust hackings, investigation into crimes over the internet, and international cooperation, the NPA said.Full Story