Security agents from both sides of the Atlantic are being sent to school so they can trace and prosecute computer criminals. The FBI, U.S. Customs, the High Technology Crime Investigation Association, Europol and the U.K.'s National High-Tech Crime Unit are among the agencies that have sent staff to learn about cybercrime, fraud, hacking and software bugs, according to the company, Massachusetts-based QinetiQ Trusted Information Management. . . .
Security agents from both sides of the Atlantic are being sent to school so they can trace and prosecute computer criminals. The FBI, U.S. Customs, the High Technology Crime Investigation Association, Europol and the U.K.'s National High-Tech Crime Unit are among the agencies that have sent staff to learn about cybercrime, fraud, hacking and software bugs, according to the company, Massachusetts-based QinetiQ Trusted Information Management.

QinetiQ Trusted Information Management is a division of QinetiQ, which until July 2001 was part of the UK's Ministry of Defence. QinetiQ, now a company wholly owned by the UK government, is currently looking for private equity investors.

Europol analyst Ian Casewell and the UK National High-Tech Crime Unit's press officer Judi Prue confirmed to Newsbytes that their organizations sent staff to QinetiQ courses.

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