We will require the publication of crime data online in an open way so that communities can build their own crime maps, see what crimes are being committed, where and at what time and hold their local police to account if they're not doing something about it.
The Internet Crime Complaint Center 2011 IC3 Internet Crime Report sheds light on the scope of online crime.
The category of cyber crime includes fraudulent online shopping activity, computer software service fraud, computer misuse crime, offences linked to computer viruses and spyware and computer hacking.
The government also wants to train more students with "cutting-edge" skills at tackling online crime.
Law enforcement agencies have even launched their own online crime channel: Blutube.com.
Participants heard that businesses could reduce their risk of online crime by 80% by having up to date anti-virus software and firewalls in place.
But as the danger of online crime shifts from amateur hackers to organized cybergangs in Eastern Europe and Asia, the Feds are increasingly cooperative with DefCon's shenanigans.
Although the techniques of cyber crime have evolved, online criminals prey on human vulnerabilities like criminals throughout the ages.
And it also asked ministers to make clear what other action was being taken to tackle sectarianism and how much money was being spent on training police to deal with online hate crime.
Perhaps when your local crime maps appears you'll go online and have a nose at your local crime rate.
The public needed more "feedback and interaction" when using services, such as crime maps and giving parents online details of children's progress at school, he added.
Whether these maps will have sufficient caveats explaining why they may not show the real picture of local crime, and whether busy online visitors will have the time to really get to grips with statistics, remains to be seen.
Mr Deats, deputy head of the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), said that greater use of online shopping and banking was making the net a tempting target for organised crime groups.
The indictment fed an ongoing debate over when an online prank becomes an Internet crime and whether the government is going too far in punishing the perpetrator.
Many of the issues that young people face online have nothing to do with crime.
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He pledged to push ahead with electronic school report cards, online GP appointment booking, neighbourhood "crime mapping" and video identification of suspects.
Boris Johnson, in the lead up to the London mayoral elections, announced his plan to publish "New York-style" crime maps of London, which have just gone online.
Politics, entertainment, sex, mass media, crime and commerce are being reshaped by a population as online as it is offline.
The Steubenville case was a dramatic example of this phenomenon: The victim only knew that a crime had been committed against her because she was featured in online photos and posts.
As the Guardian reported, the defendants boasted in online forums at the time of the incident that their crime was premeditated.
Despite the proliferation of online and mobile service offerings and the rise in cyber crime, banks and financial institutions can fight back.
In January 2013 a new EU unit at Europol in The Hague, called The European Cyber Crime Centre, will start operations, focusing on tackling child sexual abuse online.
In parallel to the consumers conducting millions of transactions online or via mobile applications, a new wave of financial crime and cyber threats have emerged in the banking sector to exploit these new access channels as part of a broader network based threat to banking security.
In Georgia it's a crime for people to communicate anonymously over the Net, which could come as a surprise to 8 million America Online users, most of whom use pseudonyms.
Assistant Chief Constable Drew Harris urged anyone who was a victim of hate crime to report it to their local police or using the Association of Chief Police Officers' (Acpo) online reporting facility, True Vision.
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