Information Security News: 150 extremist websites exposed this year - Russian police

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http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11465521

24.04.2007

MOSCOW, April 24 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's Interior Ministry exposed 150 
extremist and terrorist websites this year, head of the department 
Rashid Nurgaliyev told reporters on Tuesday.

"More than half the sites were found in foreign segments of the 
Internet," Nurgaliyev said.

The Russian segment has 72 such sites the USA - 49, the Netherlands - 
six, Germany - five and Great Britain's - four.

The information on the above sites in foreign segments of the Internet 
has been forwarded to law-enforcement bodies of these countries, the 
Russian interior minister said.

He called for "pooling efforts in developing uniform mechanisms of 
preventing the use of the global information and telecommunication space 
for spreading the ideology of terrorism."

"It is necessary to develop international cooperation with the view of 
resolving the complex problem of information security and fight against 
cyber terrorism, including the working out of a frame of reference and 
legal tools," he emphasized.

"That is way it is necessary that businesses and public organizations 
join the efforts to counteract terrorism and its ideology," Nurgaliyev 
said.


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