Mumbai: CM Fadnavis offers cops all aid to check cybercrime

The Mumbai police has recognised cybercrime as a crisis area. It said the department is being trained and their capacity is being expanded.

“We received a call from the chief minister. He has asked us to submit our requirements to enhance the capacity building programme we have undertaken to tackle cybercrime,” said Dhananjay Kulkarni, deputy commissioner of police (detection) and Mumbai police spokesperson.

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Indian organisations lack skills to combat cybercrime: EY Report

According to the EY Global Information Security survey, companies are lacking agility, budget and skills to mitigate known vulnerabilities and successfully prepare for and address cyber-security.
About 32.14 per cent of the respondents in India said their organisation's total information security budget will stay approximately the same in the coming 12 months despite increasing threats.
More than half (54.55 per cent) of the respondents said they are facing rising threats and 50.91 per cent said they are facing rising vulnerabilities in their information security environment.

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Ethical hackers step in to solve cyber crimes

 Even though the cyber cell attached to the national and state security agencies solve several cyber crime cases, it is a few ethical hackers, not coming into the limelight but working behind the scenes, who help the police solve several high-profile cyber crimes.

Another white hat hacker who helps security agencies was of the opinion that it was only in the past that security agencies lacked expertise.
Now, with a lot of training, they have also picked up expertise to track cyber crime, but not to the extent that professionals do.

“The state police crack crimes on social networking websites like Facebook, email-related frauds, etc., but today the crime happens using dark web where only professionals with immense knowledge about The Onion Router (TOR) and with sophisticated expensive equipment can handle. This is where we come into play to help governments,” he said.

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300% rise in cybercrime cases in city since last year

As per the statistics provided by the Mumbai police, cases of hacking, phishing and Nigerian fraud have risen to 36 this year till October from the nine registered during the same period last year. While 136 cyber crime offences were registered in city in 2013 till October, this year, the number is 418.

Crime in numbers (Mumbai)
Crime                                            2014                                                     2013
Hacking/Phishing/Nigerian fraud 36                                                          09
Tampering of source code              03                                                        00
Obscene e-mails/SMS/MMS         104                                                       28
Threatening e-mail/SMS                07                                                         01
Credit card fraud                            103                                                        27
Others                                             165                                                        71

Total                                               418                                                        136


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