NCFTA

For the Chinese arts organisation NCFTA, see National Center for Traditional Arts.

The National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance or NCFTA established in 1997 in Pittsburgh is an American non-profit corporation focused on identifying, mitigating, and neutralizing cyber crime threats through strategic alliances and partnerships with subject matter experts (SME) in the public, private, and academic sectors.[1]

The organisation has been involved in many high profile operations such as take down of the carding site DarkMarket in 2008[2] and the hacker forum Darkode in 2015.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ "About the NCFTA". Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Vamosi, Robert (16 October 2008). "Report: DarkMarket was FBI sting operation site". Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Hong, Nicole (13 August 2015). "Private-Public Collaboration Puts Pittsburgh at Fore of Cybercrime Fight". Retrieved 16 August 2015.


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