Negative Effects Of Cybercrime In Malaysia

1.0 INTRODUCTION Nowadays, Malaysia is one of the country involve in evolution of technologies and have make the internet one of the necessary for everyone for their daily routine such as business, to communicate, socializing and searching information. In the rapid growth of the technologies give many positive impact there are also some irresponsible user that use internet in negative way to do cybercrime. Cybercrimes refer to the activities done with criminal intent in the cyberspace or more specifically using the medium of Internet. These activities could be either criminal-based activity, socially motivated or politically instigated. Cybercrime has become a disease in cyber world which make chaos and threaten to the public security

The hacker wiped out all the information and change the homepage with word in foreign language. In 2004 there are many local website were affected by web-defacement activities which resulted in the cyber graffiti (News Strait Times, 2004). Royal Malaysia Police report that syndicate activities in banking transaction had make highest lost which almost 21 million ringgit. Furthermore, the scams and fraud in online shopping is highest ranking. The online transfer of money usually target internet users to deposit money for payment of something which does not exist (Ahzan, 2010). In Malaysia also, more than RM116 million in damages had been incurred in the last two years due to online crime such as hacking a credit and debit card numbers. (Cheng,2012).

4.0 IMPLICATION OF CYBERCRIME Since the cybercrime gives a lot of impact to individual and organization. Both of them will face the loss of intellectual property and sensitive and valuable data. Besides that, financial loss will be more crucial for organization and can be worse to individual. The organization image will be damage and also with the reputation. The organization also needs to pay the compensatory to customer and cost to for recover from the cyber-attack.

5.0 THE EFFORT TO COUNTER OR OVERCOME

The collaboration with government and non- government organization collaborate with each other in reducing the cybercrime cases. The government has played their role by making a policy in order to avoid any organization to be the victim of cybercrime. Cyber Security represents Malaysia and collaborated with international organization which expert in information security in order to protect our country from cybercrime. Royal Police of Malaysia has its own department in handling cybercrime cases and they send their officer to training in computer forensic expert. Governments also planning in build an anti-terrorism academy in Langkawi in order to combat with cybercrime.

6.0 CYBER LAW ACTS IN MALAYSIA Malaysian government has already taking a major responsible on the cybercrime activities by introducing a few acts of law that can be used for cybercrimes. There nine laws that been stated toward the cyber-related activities. a) Computer Crimes Act 1997 (CCA) b) Digital Signature Act 1997