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Tips + Case Study + Valuable Information @ computer forensics. That’s what the links for today are all about.

1. Ray Weikal feels criminals are increasingly using the P2P and FTP file sharing protocols for executing their tasks. He discusses the road to cyber safety. Read more

2. Why is FBI stumped after recovering a secret audiotape? Read more

3. Technology is changing and so are the crimes related to it. This increases the need for the computer forensic experts, but what are their responsibilities? Read more

There have been numerous cases in India, wherein crimes were commited and the criminals went unpunished. Why? Because the IT Act 2000 had many loop holes and the cyber criminals exploited the same. The police and the law enforcement could only watch the criminal executing the crime, but could do nothing. But this scenario promises to change soon.

Recently the Indian government decided to amend the Information Technology Act 2000 by incorporating new provisions. Now, the cyber forensics devices and tools used for cracking cyber crimes  would be treated as evidence in the court of law. The main objective behind this amendment is to develop indigenous cyber forensics technology to make the country self-reliant in combating cyber crimes. The government is also stressing on the development of tools for cyber forensics, state-of-the-art training in cyber forensics and technical services like cyber crime analysis and cyber crime investigation.

These steps by the Indian government promises to combat cyber crime in India to a higher degree, than what it is now.