The Importance Of Cybercrime In Malaysia

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Cybercrime acts in Malaysia should be strengthen
Recently, internet has become the most significant technology around the world. Despite being a helpful device for all users, some of the irresponsible users are taking advantage with internet by using it in a bad way. Modern technology has set the track for criminals, as they can act fast and get immediate satisfaction for their crime. Malaysian government has already creating cybercrime acts to overcome these problems. However, the rate of cybercrimes in Malaysia are rising every year. Therefore, cybercrime acts in Malaysia should be strengthen because online harassment and cyber-bullying cases are increasing continuously, online fraud cases reported as the highest cybercrime in Malaysia and …show more content…

With the invasion of illegal workers, Malaysia is one of the main market for drug traffickers (Jenishbek, 2016). Furthermore, drug trade activity extends to all areas with the support of internet. Section 39B of Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 requires that whoever is found guilty of drug trafficking should be punished by death (Harun, 2012). However, section 37 of that act imposed to anyone who is in control of 15g or more of heroin or morphine or 200g or more of cannabis will be presumed to be a drug trafficker. The quantity of the drug will acknowledge the accused person a drug trafficker or not. This can encourages many people to purchase drugs as long as it does not exceed 15g or 200g. Most of the drug traffickers are using internet to develop their drug trafficking business. After all, there is no act in Malaysia that give punishment to online drug traffickers. Computer Crime Act 1997 provides sentence for those who misuse the computer but there is no specify offence for online drug trafficking. Therefore, cybercrime acts in Malaysia are lacking that drug traffickers are taking advantage on the internet. Due to the rising of cybercrime in Malaysia, many campaigns had been held to raise awareness about this issue. According to Datuk Dr. Abu Bakar, Cyber Security Malaysia had presented many campaigns to raise knowledge about crime through cyber like Safer Internet Day Campaign (“Cyber-bullying Reports up 55.6% in 2013”, 2014). However, the campaigns that had been held are inadequate to raise alertness among the users as most of the campaigns are just been conducted for short period of

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