"It sends a message," Robert Anderson, executive assistant director of the FBI's Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch, told reporters about the decision to issue a reward for Bogachev's arrest.
Scotland Yard described the cyber-attack on a Santander branch in Surrey Quays shopping centre, south-east London, as the most sophisticated case of its kind that police had encountered.
State IT departments historically have focused their cyber efforts on their executive branches, and often don't have the relationships or infrastructure to provide cyber aid to local governments, said Alan Shark, executive director of the Public Technology Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that provides professional development and consulting services to local government IT executives.
Last month, a US cyber security firm said a secretive branch of China's military was probably one of the world's "most prolific cyber espionage groups", believed to have stolen hundreds of terabytes of data from at least 141 organisations around the world.
In addition, each of the various military branches have their own cyber units.
This cyber world is represented by a series of branching pathways and nodes, where MegaMan.EXE can travel to both new and previously visited locations, find and purchase items, and fight viruses.
Included in the framework is the familiar branch (shown in the black boxes) representing cyber attacks and exploits by malicious insiders, the latter representing the most highly studied insider threat research topic.
3) Executive policy will roll along, albeit with slightly more input from Congress: President Obama has made it clear that cyber security is a top priority in the Executive branch.
The report called for making cyberspace its own operational domain, which allows the Pentagon to organize, train and equip forces for the cyber battlefield just as it does for other military branches.
