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The Cybercrime Unit of the South African Police Services is increasingly using open source software in its pursuit of online and computer-using criminals. Speaking at the ForgeAhead eSecurity conference yesterday Beaunard Grobler, commander of the cybercrime unit, said the unit was increasingly using open source software in its work rooting out coriminals. “We use, for example, a Knoppix Live CD configured with special tools to find and isolate child pornography. This way we can search for the material in just a few minutes … and still preserve the integrity of the original evidence,” said Grobler.

Grobler — whose presentation was peppered with images of penguins in various detective-like poses — said the cybecrime unit, used a range of data analysis tools in their work and are “having a lot of success with open source tools. We have the best of both worlds in our environment,” said Grobler.

Continue Reading… (Tectonic, Africa)

The Korean government plans to select a city and a university late next month where open-source software like Linux will become the mainstream operating programs.

The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) Wednesday revealed the scheme of building up the city and university, which will operate as test beds for the open-source programs.

“We will start to receive applications next week. After screening candidate cities and universities, the test beds are likely to be decided by late March,” MIC director Lee Do-kyu said.

Continue Reading… (The Korea Times)