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How the Secret Service became our nation`s cybercops

“Cybercrime today is the equivalent of counterfeiting in the 1860s,” said special agent John Frazzini, speaking to security professionals at the NetSec 2002 conference in San Francisco last week. Frazzini related the simple rationale behind the decision to make the Secret Service, a law enforcement agency best known for protecting the U.S. president, our nation`s elite cybercops: The country needed someone to protect the economy. Full Story