Cybercrime@Octopus: News
Council of Europe HELP online Course on Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence
Cybercrime and other crimes involving electronic evidence affect the right to private life of hundreds of millions of individuals whose personal data are stolen; attack the dignity and the integrity of individuals; are a threat to the freedom of expression, public security but also democratic...
The Council of Europe’s new global Octopus Project has begun!
The new global Octopus Project on cybercrime and e-evidence has formally commenced on 1 January 2021. Building on the successful implementation of the previous global Cybercrime@Octopus project aimed at assisting countries worldwide to implement the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and...
United Kingdom makes a further voluntary contribution to the new Octopus Project
The United Kingdom has made a further voluntary contribution to the new Octopus project, amounting to UK Pounds 100,000. The new project aims to support the implementation of the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime (CETS 185), its Protocols and related standards through the Cybercrime Convention...
C-PROC is recruiting an IT System Administrator
The Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC) invites applications from qualified candidates interested in a position of IT System Administrator. The IT System Administrator will be responsible for maintaining the work environment, including operating systems, software...
Japan makes a voluntary contribution to support the global Cybercrime@Octopus project
The Government of Japan has renewed its support to the Council of Europe’s work against cybercrime, making a voluntary contribution to the current Cybercrime@Octopus project aimed at assisting countries worldwide to implement the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and strengthen data protection...
Canada makes a voluntary contribution to support the global Octopus Project
The Government of Canada made a voluntary contribution of CAN$ 250,000 (ca. EUR 161,000) to the current Cybercrime@Octopus project and the follow-up global Octopus project. With this first voluntary contribution, Canada joins the State Parties, Observers to the Convention on Cybercrime and other...
C-PROC: International Call for Consultants
The Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC) based in Bucharest, Romania has launched an International Call for Tenders aiming to conclude a framework agreement with up to 160 consultants with specific experience of cybercrime and electronic evidence. Please consult the full...
USA renews support to the global Octopus Project
The Government of the United States made a new voluntary contribution of USD 1.5 million (approximately €1.3 million) to the Council of Europe’s capacity building activities on cybercrime. The US Department of State has supported the project Cybercrime@Octopus since 2014 with approximately €3.5...
New series of online meetings was launched by Council of Europe, CARICOM and US Department of Justice
The first of a series of activities organized by the Caribbean Community Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (CARICOM IMPACS) and the Council of Europe’s Octopus Project on Cybercrime, together with the US Department of Justice, took place online between 16-17 July 2020. The activity is...
Guatemala was invited today to accede to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime.
Guatemala was invited today to accede to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. The Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC) had previously worked with the authorities in Guatemala on drafting a bill on cybercrime and electronic evidence in compliance with the Budapest...
Niger invited to join the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime
Today, Niger was also invited to accede to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. In December 2018, through the Cybercrime@Octopus project, a team of experts visited the national authorities in Niger to assess the progress made towards aligning their cybercrime legislation with the provisions of...
C-PROC: Call for Short-Term Consultants (Ad-Hoc Basis)
The Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC) based in Bucharest, Romania has launched a Call for consultancy services on cybercrime and electronic evidence for short-term consultants on an ad-hoc basis. Please consult the full call below and submit the requested documentation...
Marija Pejčinović Burić: The Budapest Convention will remain the most relevant international standard on cybercrime
Speaking at the opening of the conference on cybercrime, Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić stressed the importance of the Budapest Convention, the only legally-binding international treaty, which is used on a daily basis by criminal justice authorities in national and international...
Octopus Conference 2019
From 20 to 22 November, more than 450 participants - ministers, other senior government officials, legal experts in criminal matters, and representatives of the internet industry, civil society and data protection organisations from all over the world - meet at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg...
GLACY+: Advisory mission on cybercrime legislation in Fiji
A three days advisory mission on cybercrime legislation was concluded on 1 November in Suva, Fiji, conducted in the framework of the GLACY+ and the Cybercrime@Octopus Projects. The activity, co-organized with the Office of the Attorney General of Fiji, aimed at analyzing the draft proposal of the...
C-PROC welcomed students at its premises on the 70th anniversary
On the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Council of Europe, the Cybercrime Programme Office (C-PROC) organised an open-door day for students at its premises in Bucharest. On 31 October 2019, C-PROC welcomed around 25 students from Law Faculties in Bucharest, who had the opportunity to...
C-PROC organized a briefing on cybercrime matters to mark the 70th anniversary
To mark the 70th Anniversary of the Council of Europe, the Cybercrime Programme Office (C-PROC) organised a briefing on cybercrime matters for the representatives of the Embassies of Parties to the Cybercrime Convention in Bucharest, Romania. The meeting took place at the premises of C-PROC, on...
Cybecrime@Octopus: Council of Europe supported the Climax Week of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month of Ghana
The Council of Europe through GLACY+ and Cybercrime@Octopus Projects supported the organization of three consecutive events in the framework of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM 2019) of Ghana. Formal opening of the Climax Week of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month of...
T-CY Secretariat
Alexander SEGER
Executive Secretary
Jan KRALIK
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Céline DEWAELE
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