Lecture on cyber-crime mece held

Special correspondent

SILCHAR, Jan 31: Growing cyber-crime across the world has become a cause of deep concern. The hackers are active to penetrate cyber security by adopting subtle and surreptitious methods. Users of internet, e-mail, facebook, twitter and online transactions often fall a prey to them. Giving a lecture on ‘Cyber-crime and its security’ organized by All Cachar-Karimganj-Hailakandi Students’ Association (ACKHSA) in its central office here recently, defence and cyber-crime alyst, Subimal Bhattacharjee, said tions around the world are worried about the crime and exploring the possibility of countering and combating it.

 According to him, one click on a link to get the necessary information and at the same time runs the risk of being hacked and the software is prone to virus. One can now hack a face profile or an e-mail account in Argenti by sitting in India. The greatest danger today is from ISIS which is adopting the same method. Two such cases have been detected, one in Kolkata and the other in Bengaluru.

Bhattacharjee said 183 countries have formed a global committee to counter cyber-crime. He is a member on the committee. He opined it is not possible to check cyber-crime totally. The best way to contain it is to find out a new software and also a uniform strategy and law. Bhattacharjee has a dig at the contrary laws in India which stand in the way of police tracking and arresting the hackers.

 Bhattacharjee welcomed the annulment of 66 (A) of the Information Technology Act. Online content was now being dwelt under provisions of the IPC. Two other provisions of the IT Act Section 69 (A) and Section 79, according to him, are contradictory, but are still in force.  Such contradictory legal provisions can hardly be expected to combat the crime, pointed out Subimal Bhattacharjee. He advised internet users to change their password frequently and not to share it with anyone. While using ATM card, one has to be cautious. After the transaction is over, cancel it. Otherwise, the hackers on wait around can misuse it. He said the graph shows rapid rise in ATM crimes. “The global committee of 25 countries, on which he is a member, is working on manufacturing software to counter the crime,” he said.  Bhattacharjee advocated for forming an alliance with all the countries and an intertiol body to monitor such activities. It is a positive development that Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) has signed an agreement with its counter parts in Malaysia, Singapore and Japan.