THE RISE OF CYBERCRIMES IN GHANA WORRIES THE GOVERNMENT

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In a recent writing, I mentioned about the rise of cybercrimes in Ghana. I mentioned about Ghana Vice-President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur who has urged ISPs to put in place effective measures to combat internet fraud, amid rapidly increasingly cybercrime. Full Detail on this can be read "HERE".
Barely two weeks after Ghana Vice-President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur called on young people not to get involved in illegal internet activities, police arrested a 26-year-old undergraduate student for allegedly...

Dr. Ali, My digital forensics investigation lecture during my bachelor degree argued the UK government to invest on skills and police resources to tackle cybercrime. He started with the statistics by saying; the cost of cybercrime to the UK economy is around £27 billion per year, around 2% of national GDP. Some experts suggest this is too small, excluding as it does important vectors of cybercrime such as malware.

Computer security firm Norton estimates that more than 12.5m people in the UK...

Mr. Masagos ZulkiflThe fight against Cybercrime has never been a work of individual alone or specific group of people. Joining hands is strongly recommended to win the fight – Cybercrimes have no borders and the impact that we see today is very high compared to the past few years. "MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES"  have recently showed a great example not forgetting European Union with its Cybersecurity framework.

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Recently we witness some shocking reports showing rapid increase of cybercrimes. One of the report shows QATAR has been one of the leading target of cybercrime this year. Despite of the initiatives taking places across countries there are still some countries with huge number of cases of cybercrimes, one of them is India where by the rise of cybercrime has increased over 50%  this year.

Cybercrimes registered under the IT Act shot up by over 50% across India between 2012 and 2013, shows the...