Cybercrime experts from around the world will meet in Europe that week to discuss how governments should counter attacks aimed at crippling the World Wide Web and hitting users with notes loss, identity theft and hoax.

Taking the lead in the fight against computer-related crime is Estonia, the Internet-savvy Baltic country that came under a wave cyber attacks last year that paralyzed many of its businesses and institutions.

A conference by the Council of Europe in France on Tuesday and Wednesday will review the implementation of the Convention on Cybercrime, the only legally binding universal treaty to address online crime.

It additionally will discuss new guidelines for cooperation amidst police and investigators and World Wide Web service providers in the fight against crime in cyberspace.

Separately, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s summit in Romania beginning Wednesday will debate NATO’s own guidelines for coordinating national cyber defense efforts.

The Council of Europe convention — which helps protect computer users against hackers

and World Wide Web swindle — has been signed by 43 countries, mostly from Europe but plus including the United States, Japan and Canada. The convention plus covers offenses involving electronic evidence such as child sexual exploitation, organized crime and terrorism.

As the Web becomes an fundamental part of daily life across the world, experts from police forces, as well as technology companies Microsoft Corp. and eBay, Inc., will debate possible legal solutions to cyber-related crime and training possibilities at the Council of Europe workshop in Strasbourg, France.

The challenges posed by cybercrime are different from conventional terror attacks considering of the fast exchange of input and the huge worldly reach of computers, said Marco Gercke, a lecturer in computer law at University of Cologne in Germany.

“Compared to regular terror attacks, it is much easier for the offenders to hide their identity. There are at least 10 rare challenges that manufacture it very…

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