Rajnath says that cyber crime has become an industry globally and that such offences may occur ‘very often’ due to availability of resources in the wrong hands
Social media has aided in terrorism, financial frauds and victimisation of women and children, posing serious challenges for law enforcement agencies, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Wednesday.
Inaugurating a two-day Asia-Pacific regional conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) here, Singh said that serious crime develops because the police and citizens do not work together to prevent decay of social norms and social disorder.
"The social media has also posed a serious challenge to policing. The main issues are law and order, cyber crimes like fake and imitating accounts, financial frauds and victimisation of women and children and terrorism," he said.
He said cyber crime has become an industry globally and that such offences may occur 'very often' due to the availability of resources in wrong hands.
Inaugurating a two-day Asia-Pacific regional conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) on 'Challenges to Policing in 2020 - How is Cyber Space shaping our approach to Cyber crime & Terrorism, how do we perform within it and take advantage of it', the home minister said cyber security network outages, data compromised by hackers, computer malware and other cyber-related incidents and crimes have affected people's lives.
"I am afraid, cyber attack would occur very often. Tools already exist to mount cyber attacks and they will be improving over the next decade. We have already witnessed an increase in the number and severity of such attacks," he said.
Singh also said penetration of Internet and self-radicalisation have further added to the woes of law enforcement agencies and that continuance of the availability of radicalised materials on Internet is likely to have drastic change in society and subsequently to humanity.
TOUGH TALK
Rajnath Singh said that cyber crime has become an industry globally and that such offences may occur ‘very often’ due to availability of resources in the wrong hands
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