Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
THE government will form a team of experts to go after cyber criminals. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, in her speech Wednesday during launching and signing of the Implementing Rules and Regulation of the Cyber Crime Prevention Act of 2012, said the government has a lot of catching up to do against cybercrime offenders who had about three decades of head start. “It’s about time that we, in the government, take that step to finally tackle them head on,” de Lima said. “It is our mandate to ensure that while crimes ought not to go unpunished, that wherever cybercriminals may be found, the full force of the law must apply,” she said. The team, de Lima said, will be anti-cybercrime professionals “equipped with the requisite expertise, backed up by adequate resources and operating under an ethical framework to ensure that we can deliver justice.” Last year, the PNP recorded 614 cybercrime-related cases, 22 percent of them were scam-related, 16 percent involved cyber libel, 11 percent were on voyeurism, and 9 percent involved identity theft. De Lima said the capacity building also includes the upgrading of the facilities and equipment of the respective anti-cybercrime unit of the National Bureau of Investigation […]
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