From: RT
Joe Raedle
The New York Police Department is teaming up with federal authorities to create a new anti-terrorism task force, but it isn’t Al-Qaeda they’re after. A new division announced on Thursday will instead aim to take down computer hackers.
Creation of the newly formed Cyber Task Force was confirmed this week in a statement released early Thursday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose agents will now work with NYPD officers and members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or MTA, to monitor malicious online activity throughout the region.
Just as the FBI has teamed up with local authorities in the past to take on criminal activity, the new task force will strive to create the same cooperative relationship that has worked to disrupt alleged terrorist attacks in the Big Apple already.
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