Malaysia to establish global centre against cyber-terrorism: reports

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2006

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysia is to establish an international centre to fight cyber-terrorism, providing an emergency response to high-tech attacks on economies and trading systems around the globe, reports said.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said during a visit to the United States that the facility, sited at the high-tech hub of Cyberjaya outside Kuala Lumpur, would be funded and supported by governments and the private sector.

The New Straits Times said the centre would be modelled on the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, which helps handle outbreaks of disease around the world.

Abdullah -- who announced the initiative at the close of the World Congress on Information Technology in Austin, Texas -- said the threat of cyber-terrorism was too...

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