State govts fail to get cracking on cyber crime

Interestingly, though the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the nodal agency to deal with cybercrime in India, trains 30 police officials every year, it says most state police units are ill-equipped to deal with the problem.

The number of cybercrime cases increased from 142 in 2006 to 217 in 2007, and stood at 288 in 2008 - a 100 per cent jump from 2006.

Image: People are shown using computers in this file photo. Tens of millions of U.S. computers are loaded with scam security software that their owners may have paid for but which only makes the machines more vulnerable, according to a new Symantec report on cybercrime.

Text: Businessstandard

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