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opinion8 hours ago
A sharp rise in cybercrime or e-Crime has been recorded in the country in the last three years, according to a top police official.
There were 1,011 cybercrimes in 2015, which incurred a financial loss of Dh40.56million against 745 cases in 2014 with a loss of 28million and 302 cases in 2013 with the loss touching Dh3.11million.
Major-General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina,Commander-in-Chief of the Dubai Police, revealed the figures while delivering a lecture about the new crime and its impacts on the community in the presence of Mohammed Al Murr, the Chairman of Federal National Council (FNC).
He talked about latest smart communication devices and pointed out that criminals are resorting to latest technology nowadays in committing financial crimes.
More data security breaches will happen Online sophistication of cyber attacks in the UAE indicates that the severity of attack will continue to increase. And it stresses the need to have more measures for cyber security. The more the number of internet users, the more the cyber breaches in the country as well as across the region. The UAE, being a 'lucrative' target for the attackers, requires a strong strategy to breakdown sophisticated internet criminals or the "dark net" world of organised crime. Banks and financial institutions are the easy target for these serious attackers obviously for financial gains. To ensure the data security of the UAE, the Security Division of EMC, RSA gathers all the important people of the industry and prepares improved strategy to fight the cyber crimes and breaches. Dr. Robert Griffin, Chief Security Architect at RSA, said: "When I started 30 years ago in this industry it was more of an unorganised crime. The single most striking change from then is that people who were experienced engineers were doing it for fun but now it's more serious business. Attackers are more mature, educated and professional now and mostly between the age group of 20 to 60." "Unfortunately we will go on to see the increase, we cannot stop it completely but with effective and quicker solutions we can definitely decrease the character and impact of disaster." ankita@khaleejtimes.com |
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