The regional Interpol office is also focusing on increasing piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, illegal drug trafficking, arms smuggling, cross-border highway banditry, computer-based crimes, and the poaching and trade of protected animals.
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"The punishments for computercrimes are seriously off-kilter, and congress needs to fix them, " she added.
Speaking to reporters at the task force ribbon-cutting ceremony, Mike Dorsey, a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service who is working directly with the JTF-CND to investigate computercrimes against DOD networks, said unauthorized attempts to access DOD systems are on the rise but that DOD does not have the resources to respond to every incident.