NEW DELHI: To deal with cyber crimes such as financial frauds, circulation of communal and pornographic contents, the Union Home Ministry is planning to set up an apex coordination centre and has asked states to establish a similar mechanism in every district.It has also released Rs 83 crore for setting up of a cyber forensic training laboratory-cum-training centre for police officials in each state. With this increase, cyber crimes have emerged as a major challenge for law enforcement agencies, the official said. "The cyber crime cases are of varied types. These range from defacement of government websites, online financial frauds, online stalking and harassment, and data thefts. Each requires specialised investigative skill sets and forensic tools," another official said.Cyber crime cases pose technical, legal and administrative challenges in investigation which require strengthening of the institutional mechanism.Phishing, scanning or probing, website intrusions and defacements, virus or malicious code and denial of service attacks are some types of cyber crimes.

Source: Economic Times January 28, 2018 05:48 UTC