http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/wed/nov30b6.htm November 30, 2005 KOTA KINABALU - The trend in cybercrime has changed from mostly hacking of organisations' computer system in some four to five years ago to unauthorised access of their resources like records, database, information as well as money for monetary gain, Bernama reported. Head of Internet Crime Investigation Unit of the Royal Malaysia Police in Bukit Aman, DSP Mahfuz Abdul Majid said the police now received more serious cases like loss of resources like data, information and money from some organisations' computer system as well as unauthorised access to some government department records. "The number of cases is not many but it is increasing," he told reporters on the sidelines of a one-day Cyberlaw Workshop, here Monday. Among the cases found during their investigation was the unauthorised access of certain land offices data, possibly through the help of insiders who helped syndicates to change the ownership of a particular land title before selling it to another individual. The syndicates took advantage of the recent undertaking by some land offices to computerise their data for their own gain with the help of insiders, he said. Besides, syndicates with the help of hackers also blackmailed some website owners for money which were seldom reported as they would usually ask for RM5,000 to be paid to them to prevent their website and data from being distorted by the syndicate. "They usually pay the syndicate instead of reporting it to the authority as the money they were asking was not that much and it was less of a hassle," he said. The increasing number of service providers of the Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) which allowed users to get a lower calling rate by communicating through Internet line could also spark some interest among syndicates and their hackers' partners to tap the line for their monetary gain. Copyright © 2005 Brunei Press Sdn Bhd. All right reserved _________________________________________ Earn your Master's degree in Information Security ONLINE www.msia.norwich.edu/csi Study IA management practices and the latest infosec issues. Norwich University is an NSA Center of Excellence.
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