Cybercrime

Cybercrime is basically any act that would be against the law in the physical world that takes part on the internet. Based on Criminal Justice Cybercrime Categories (Professor David L. Carter – 1979), Cybercrime can happen as the computer are always the target, for example computer intrusion, data theft, technovandalism. Besides, computer is also another medium of of the Crime, such as Credit card fraud, telecommunications fraud, theft. Moreover, computer is also incidental to other Crimes, like drug trafficking, money laundering, child pornography.

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In January, 2009, there were more than 4,000 cyber complaints, mostly concerning cyber crimes have been lodged with Cybersecurity Malaysia in the past two years. (reported by the star online). Chief executive officer Lieutenant-Colonel Husin Jazri said that the complaints, mostly consisted of hack threats, fraud, denial of services and other computer problems such files lost or corrupted by viruses.
In Malaysia, there is an enforcement agency --> Cybersecurity Malaysia,which cater the service of digital forensic, security assurance, security management and so on.analysing evidence and providing expert witnesses for relevant cases. In order for enforcement agencies to fulfill their roles, they require processes, role players, technical support and specialist centres to aid in analysing and solving technical problems to help the judicial process.

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Colonel Husin even quoted that, if in the future they cannot cope anymore, we may need to have a cybercourt! It can be used to speed up the prosecution of cyber criminals, encouraging more specialized judges and lawyers. According to CYBERSECURITY MALAYSIA, a very challenging issue in cyber crime investigation is the gathering of evidence. If there is a cyber court, there will be a need for a provision on how the court can facilitate and give empowerment for evidence collection in a much, much easier way. The setting up of the court must take into consideration the bottleneck and how it can help ease evidence gathering.
It is due to the fact that the country's cyberpopulation is increasing, the number of online transactions or other activities will increase in tandem, which will likely mean more incidents of cybercrime. Advancement of broadband and wireless enable everyone of us to make full use of Internet. However, such medium can also be used as cybercrimes where the more criminals taking advantage over the situation, conducting crimes online. The situation will definitely get worst when the global economy is facing recession, as everyone wish to earn more money than others! And this is one of the "short-cut" for the criminals, without realising the consequences of it.