KUALA LUMPUR, July 15 - Incidents of cyber security is increased by 147 percent in the first six months of this year compared to same period last year.
CyberSecurity Malaysia's chief executive officer, Datuk Husin Jazri said it was based on a total of 7.404 cyber security incidents reported during January to June this year compared to only 2.991 cases in the same period last year.
"In terms of categories, the whole nine categories of cyber security incidentsincreased significantly with the highest reported cases of fraud.
"This was followed by cases such as spam, trial trespassing, malicious code, cyberharassment, cyber threat report, denial of service and related offenses cybercontent," he said in a press statement here today.
Husin, adding from 2.820 fraud cases were reported this year, cases of 'phishing'attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and creditcard data by masquerading as being legal entities in the electronic communicationsrecord the highest number of cases.
For other cyber security incidents, he said, recorded a total of 1.806 cases of spam,invasion of (1.364), malicious code (637), attempts trespassing (336), cyberharassment (274), the cyber threat report (70), denial of service (63 ) and content-related offenses (34).
"The increase in cyber security incidents associated with an increased rate of use of the Internet that saw Internet users around the country a total of 17 million people.
"This number will continue to increase as supported by the rapid development ofbroadband infrastructure," he said.
Husin, adding CyberSecurity also develop applications 'DontPhishMe' to protect consumers from the threat of cyber-banking services, especially phishing.
CyberSecurity Malaysia's chief executive officer, Datuk Husin Jazri said it was based on a total of 7.404 cyber security incidents reported during January to June this year compared to only 2.991 cases in the same period last year.
"In terms of categories, the whole nine categories of cyber security incidentsincreased significantly with the highest reported cases of fraud.
"This was followed by cases such as spam, trial trespassing, malicious code, cyberharassment, cyber threat report, denial of service and related offenses cybercontent," he said in a press statement here today.
Husin, adding from 2.820 fraud cases were reported this year, cases of 'phishing'attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and creditcard data by masquerading as being legal entities in the electronic communicationsrecord the highest number of cases.
For other cyber security incidents, he said, recorded a total of 1.806 cases of spam,invasion of (1.364), malicious code (637), attempts trespassing (336), cyberharassment (274), the cyber threat report (70), denial of service (63 ) and content-related offenses (34).
"The increase in cyber security incidents associated with an increased rate of use of the Internet that saw Internet users around the country a total of 17 million people.
"This number will continue to increase as supported by the rapid development ofbroadband infrastructure," he said.
Husin, adding CyberSecurity also develop applications 'DontPhishMe' to protect consumers from the threat of cyber-banking services, especially phishing.
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