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APWG launches global cybercrime reporting programme [New Vision (Uganda)](New Vision (Uganda) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) The APWG, the global counter-cybercrime association, has established an open-access cybercrime reporting programme to speed the collection and redistribution of cybercrime machine-event data to anti-virus vendors, security companies, investigators and responders. The APWG Accredited Reported Data Submission Programme broadens the number of qualified contributors to the APWG's machine-event data clearinghouses worldwide to maximise the trans-industrial exchange of event data required to deflect, investigate and respond to cybercrime attacks in the first instance. APWG established its initial URL Block List (UBL) repository in 2003 under demand from industry and NGOs for a central clearing house to receive phishing reports from brand holders and responders, and to distribute them to developers of security software, such as browser security toolbars and anti-virus systems as well as to cybercrime investigators requiring notification of attacks. COPYRIGHT (c) 2014 NEWVISION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |