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Companies should evolve measures to enhance data security, says R. Sujatha The police, adept at tracing criminals using fingerprints, find themselves in deep waters when it comes to handling cyber crimes, particularly computer and mobile hackers. It is in this backdrop and with a number of complaints pertaining to website and mobile phone hacking being received by the cyber crime cell almost on a daily basis, a training programme for the police personnel was organised in Chennai recently, said Police Commissioner Nanchil G. Kumaran. This year, of the over 530 complaints received 40 were endorsed by the Commissioner of Police consequently leading to cyber crime cell registering cases. Two-thirds of the cases have been solved, said a cyber crime official. The complaints received included those related to tampering of data, posting of obscene material on websites or transmitting by mobile phones and conducting of online lottery. Other complaints are the Nigerian scam (where the receiver gets an e-mail about a friend in distress in a foreign country requesting a deposit of money in a bank for his rescue), those of data leakage and theft by disgruntled employees, e-mail threats using mobile phones, online job rackets and intranet and internet hacking. Data leakage and theft are about tampering with the source code in which the thief hacks the software, adds or deletes the company’s basic software or sends e-mail threats or steals mobile phone data. “As the use of computer increases, naturally there will be more such complaints,” said M. Sudhakar, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Cyber Crime). “Source code tampering, where the application of the software is tampered with, is a major complaint.” According to Electronic Corporation of Tamil Nadu Managing Director C. Uma Shankar, one of the best practices is to not give access to the entire software to any single individual in the organisation. The possibility of data theft by outsiders through an intranet facility is low though through the internet it could be high. Simple methods such as an audit to find out the organisation’s internal procedures, particularly with regard to those who have the maximum access, and finding out about password provisions are required. Even in the case of free-for-all database, by tracking the visitors’ list it would be possible to catch the hacker, he said. Access control system using cards, biometric sensors and palm secure technology would also go a long way in curbing hacking. Gadgets such as palm secure technology that reads the veins and blood circulation in the palm is a fool-proof system that organisations and the government could adopt to prevent their database from being hijacked, Mr. Uma Shankar said. Crimes such as hacking, cyber extortion and tampering attract punishment as prescribed in the Information Technology Act.
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