Royal Malaysian Police may now have a better knowledge on cybersecurity as The International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (Impact) are planning to conduct courses regarding cybersecurity.
It's aim is to help the police force in better handling with cybersecurity cases such as identity theft etc. Even though the course subjects are still in planning stage, it's expected to be introduce in the first quarter of next year and data forensics will be one of the many subjects to be offered. Beside Malaysian police force, it is said that this course will be offer to police force in The International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (Impact) member countries, spreading in 42 countries worldwide.
Impact chairman, Datuk Mohd Noor Amin said that today many people are getting more concerned about online security, especially when it involves their identity, compared to 10 years ago. He also added that identity theft and cybersecurity are difficult problems to solve as for the poor enforcement of laws or even worse, the laws regarding these issues has yet to exist.Without a standard laws, it's hard to charge a cybercriminal because different country have different laws. For example, victims of the crime can be in one country but the servers used may be somewhere else.
Ideally, laws on identity theft should be enforced considering how easy a criminal can obtain someone’s identity, he said.
A study had been done by information security company Symantec and from the study it shows that 57% of the time people lose their identities because they have lost their laptops or thumbdrives while only 17% is caused by hackers stealing them but either way, there aren’t proper laws to keep one’s identity secure.
In United States itself, privacy and identity theft has increasing drastically with about 200 million identity records exposed there last year. The alarming statistic show that serious action should be taken and implemented fast and efficiently by many countries around the world.(source: http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/12/4/technology/20091204113310&sec=technology, www.topnews.in/files/
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