The unwillingness of cyber-crime victims to pursue cases is the major hurdle in the way of investigations and action against hackers and criminals in the country.
This was stated by the President Pakistan Information Security Association (PISA) and former additional director general FIA Ammar Jaffery while speaking at the “Information Security Conference” via Skype in connection with CONNECT 2012 at Karachi Expo Centre on Wednesday.
He said that as much as 200 cases were reported for cyber-crimes including hacking of website, tracing of emails, frauds through internet and mobile phones during 2011.
He pointed out that most of the cyber-crime victims do not report the incident of internet misuse to investigators due to several reasons including fear of police, black mailing and personal secrets.
Jaffery said that cyber-crimes are on the rise, causing colossal damages to the victim companies and individuals in the country. He noted with pleasure that FIA has revived Cyber Security Task Force to deal with computer based crimes. “Use of forensics science system can help a lot in effectively detecting and curbing cyber-crimes”, he added.
He underlined the need for creating awareness among the mass especially the users of Internet about the availability of legal means to try the hackers and misuse of cyber facilities.
Quoting the official of Internet search engine Google, he said the Pakistan is among those three countries in the world that are shy of using Internet for trading activities. As much as 190 countries in the world are using it.
