‘Advancement in technology posing new challenges’

The advancement in technology such as cloud computing, rapid development in mobile phone platforms, increased wireless networks and social networking were posing fresh challenges to the investigation agencies said, Loknath Behera, Inspector General of Police (Operations and Coordination), National Investigation Agency.

The Kerala-cadre IPS officer said at Cocon, the two-day International Cyber Security and Policing Conference which began here on Friday that, no terrorist activities happened in the country without the involvement of  computers and all the terrorist modules had cyber wing with experts.

“Once cloud computing is used for a crime, it is very difficult to gather sufficient evidence to prove the crime before the court of law. It is difficult to trace crimes through social networks as the servers of all the prominent social networks are situated in other countries,”  Behera said. 

Talking to the media on the sidelines of the conference, Behera said that in order to face the challenges posed by the dependence of terror outfits on cyber tools, the NIA was also being made more technology-centric.

Fake currency has Pakistan links

Behera also said that the fake currency cases in Kerala had Pakistan links.

“NIA is to probe into couple of fake currency cases in the the state. Though the state police had been investigating the cases properly, the NIA took over the probe owing to the involvement of other countries. Kerala has the distinction of having the maximum number of NIA cases,” Behera added.

Satish Babu, the national president of the Computer Society of India and director,  International Centre for Free and Open Source

Software (ICFOSS), Technopark, who spoke at the afternoon session of the conference said that, of all major security threats faced by the new, techno-literate generation, identify theft was the most serious.

As the use of technology in our lives becomes pervasive, the risks of identity theft also increases.