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New Delhi : Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju on March 15, 2018, said that law enforcement and security agencies worldwide must collaborate to tackle the threat posed by Cyber Crimes.
Addressing the Valedictory Session of the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) here, Rijiju observed that the existing frameworks, programmes and tools are often too slow and bureaucratic to allow for a timely and effective response. Rather than multiple partners investing in and developing the same highly specialised skill-sets and expertise, perhaps a more effective, high-level model would be good for law enforcement and relevant partners to focus on distinct core competencies and to make them available to others ‘as a service’, he added.
The commission of cyber-crime is getting easier as the cyber technology provides it easy ways to commit crime at a faraway place, in total anonymity, and with global reach, he said. ” Tools and techniques to conduct cybercrime — hacking software, malware — can be downloaded freely. There are even step-by-step video instructions online that explain how to use them. In fact, crime-as-a-service is also being offered in dark web, we can see from looking at standard consumer technology that it only takes a few iterations of a product for it to become straightforward to use. So the barrier to entry for cybercrime is very minimal i.e. just needs to access internet,” said Rijiju, according to a PIB release.
Rijiju said as per own National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), a total of 33,531 cyber-crime cases were registered during 2014-2016. During 2016, 48.6% of cyber-crime cases reported were for illegal gain (5,987 out of 12,317 cases), followed by revenge with 8.6% (1,056 cases) and insult to modesty of women with 5.6% (686 cases). During 2016, cyber-crime (7.7%) was recorded as the fourth largest crime (first Cheating-68.4%,- second criminal breach of trust-11.7%, third forgery-8.6%) in India, he said.