By Sarah Hannan
Microsoft Sri Lanka yesterday partnered with local IT stakeholders, Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) and Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team Coordination Centre (Sri Lanka CERT CC) to fight soaring numbers of cybercrime.
According to Sri Lanka CERT CC, from the time the organisation was established in 2007, the number of reported cybercrime incidents has climbed rapidly from 49 to around 200 incidents reported each day, according to Sri Lanka CERT CC Chief Executive Officer Lal Dias.
Last year Microsoft had released a Computer Security Study with a focus on South-East Asia, which established that two out of three new branded computers installed with pirated software at the point of sale were infected with dangerous malware, which were designed to cause serious vulnerabilities.
“Increase of cyber threats and cyber crime incidents has become a negative factor towards the growth of ICT and Internet and there is a need to address the root cause. The Government has taken many policy initiatives to address this problem by enacting the Computer Crimes Act No. 24 of 2007,” ICTA Director Legal Jayantha Fernando noted.
Microsoft Sri Lanka yesterday partnered with local IT stakeholders, Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) and Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team Coordination Centre (Sri Lanka CERT CC) to fight soaring numbers of cybercrime.
According to Sri Lanka CERT CC, from the time the organisation was established in 2007, the number of reported cybercrime incidents has climbed rapidly from 49 to around 200 incidents reported each day, according to Sri Lanka CERT CC Chief Executive Officer Lal Dias.
Last year Microsoft had released a Computer Security Study with a focus on South-East Asia, which established that two out of three new branded computers installed with pirated software at the point of sale were infected with dangerous malware, which were designed to cause serious vulnerabilities.
“Increase of cyber threats and cyber crime incidents has become a negative factor towards the growth of ICT and Internet and there is a need to address the root cause. The Government has taken many policy initiatives to address this problem by enacting the Computer Crimes Act No. 24 of 2007,” ICTA Director Legal Jayantha Fernando noted.
