

Korea shows in the top of many statistics tracking spam, phish, zombies, or other various kinds of cybercrimes. Why is this?
There are few apparent reasons - the dominance of the Windows OS in Korea, anecdotal lack of interest in cybersecurity, and state-of-the-art Internet infrastructure make Korea a top choice for cybercriminals. The numbers showing Korea as one of the top producers of Internet threats is not due to Koreans’ bad manners or nature. In fact, most of the attacks originating from Korea are not even caused by Koreans - instead, criminals from all over the world target Korean computers and try to create zombie networks with Korean computers just because they are guaranteed high throughput and efficiency of their attacks.
Because roughly 14 million of the nation’s 15.5 households are connected to always-on high-speed Internet, Korea makes a prime target for virus and worm viruses. The Korean government even plans to increase the speed of the Internet to 100 megabits per second by 2010, about 50 times faster than the current speed.
Korea has done a great job in creating an exemplary Internet infrastructure and has achieved the highest broadband penetration in the world. But with success comes responsibility, and the Korean government should take steps to educate and protect technologically the network they have created.
Cybercrime is based on any form of illegal act for which knowledge of computer technology is essential for either its perpetration, investigation, or prosecution. With korea's great penetration on the highest broadband in the world, they should also keep up with the e-security in order to protect the rights of the public users.
BBC reports on increased efforts of the Attorney General Gonzales to push for measures that would allow law enforcement to combat what the AG has called epidemic" of child pornography.
Gonzales has proposed changes in the law under the Child Pornography and Obscenity Prevention Amendments of 2006 (COPA’s earlier version was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court) where ISPs would be required to report child pornography and bolster penalties for those parties who fail to do so. In addition, Gonzales also wants to find ways to require ISPs to retain records (logs) of user’s activities for longer period of time so that law enforcement can have a longer trail when tracking an alleged offender.
The European Union’s Directive on Data Retention mandates ISPs in Europe to preserve call and Internet records for a period of 6 to 24 months (as specified by each EU country’s government). It seems that AG Gonzales seeks to impose similar obligations to US ISPs which, under current law, are not required to maintain any records of ordinary activity (unless of course they are served with a timely subpoena.) Attorney General’s statement on these new proposed requirements included,
The investigation and prosecution of child predators depends critically on the availability of evidence that is often in the hands of internet service providers.
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Unfortunately, the failure of some internet service providers to keep records has hampered our ability to conduct investigations in this area.
The debate in the US as to ISP data retention requirements has already started, and Gonzales’ statements will definitely help fuel the conversation. At stake are vital interests to subscriber privacy and law enforcement’s ability to prevent and catch among some of the most heinous crimes.
This is partly an act in sexual harassment which leads to cyber stalking is definitely unethical as it is a form of invading a person’s privacy. A cyber stalker relies upon the mystery afforded by the Internet to allow them to stalk their victim without being detected. Cyber stalking messages different from common spam which is cyber stalker targets a specific victim with often threatening messages, while the spammer targets a large number of recipients with simply annoying messages.
KUALA LUMPUR: Cyberstalking or online harassment cases are on the rise in Malaysia, according to CyberSecurity Malaysia.
“The number of cyberstalking cases reported until October this year was 151 incidents compared to 72 for the whole of last year,” said CyberSecurity Malaysia chief executive officer Lt Col (retired) Husin Jazri.
“This figure could also be higher because not all harassment cases are reported by the victims,” he added.
Cyberstalking is when an individual or a group of individuals use the Internet or other electronic channels to stalk someone with malicious intentions.
The behaviour of a stalker includes making false accusations, slander, threats and sexual exploitation.
Compromising and abusing a victim’s e-mail accounts, identity theft, and gathering information about victims for the purpose of harassing are also typical behaviours of a stalker, Husin said.
In most cases the stalkers are people known to the victims and these may include the victim’s former partners, ex-spouse, colleagues, friends and competitors.
In Malaysia, the issue of cyber stalking is governed by Communications and Multimedia Act 1998. Any contravention with this provision is a criminal offence where on conviction, the accused may be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both and shall also be liable to a further fine of one thousand ringgit for everyday or part of a day during which the offence is continued after conviction.
for more information : http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/11/16/technology/20091116111900&sec=technology
KUCHING: The definition of bumiputra status in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak should be standardised, said Sarawak Teachers’ Union (STU) president William Ghani Bina.
He said under the Federal Constitution, a child born in the peninsula would be accorded the status as long as one of the parents was a bumiputra.
In Sabah, a child is considered a bumiputra if his or her father is one.
However, for Sarawak, the Federal Constitution states that for a child to be a bumiputra, both parents must be bumiputra.
“How can we have three different definition of bumiputra status if we want to promote the 1Malaysia concept?
“We want this to be rectified, and to get Sabah and Sarawak to follow the same definition as being used in the peninsula,” Ghani said yesterday.
Urging the Federal Government to standardise the definition, he said the basis should be race and not religion.
Ghani was asked to comment on the plight of several Sarawakian students who had been denied places in university matriculation programmes because they were of mixed parentage and, therefore, did not enjoy bumiputra status.
Although this is a sensitive issue, but on my opinion, the government should standardize the bumiputra status because sabah and sarawak are also parts of Malaysia and they have the rights to be one of the bumiputra status as easily as the peninsular Malaysia obtain their's status.