"That's the beauty of digital crime as far as the criminal is concerned, " he said.

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Digital crime-fighters plan to use the same techniques the researchers used to identify students at Carnegie Mellon University to identify English rioters.

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With the help of Microsoft Digital Crime Unit, the Kelihos botnet, rumored to have as many as 40, 000 bots, was taken offline in September 2011.

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First they hear from a galaxy of experts and interest groups about e-crime issues including privacy and security on social networks, digital forensics, measuring the cost of e-crime and international cooperation.

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In a courtroom, for instance, a police officer might want to present photographic evidence taken at the crime scene with a digital camera.

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After a sixth email warning in June 2010, Mr. Angelastri says MasterCard demanded he hire a forensic investigator to do a thorough review of his system, essentially a digital version of the investigations that police often conduct at crime scenes.

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"We have around 140, 000 police officers in the UK. And yet barely 1, 000 of them have been trained to handle digital evidence at the basic level and fewer than 250 are currently with Computer Crime Units or have higher level forensic skills, " said David Harrington, report author.

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