ISLAMABAD, May 28 (APP): Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)
has arranged training of 12,458 individuals from all walks of life
to serve purpose of controlling cyber crimes during last four years.
National Response Centre for Cyber Crimes (NR3C) arranged
these trainings on digital forensic comprehension for interpreting
forensic reports, evidence extraction methods and laws application
to judicial community.
Official sources on Sunday said concerned Wing of FIA also
registered 894 cases since January 2013, out of which 179 cases were
so far decided.
During the said period, the Wing also arrested 689 accused
persons who were allegedly involved in cases related to cyber
crimes.
The sources while listing measures to control such crimes said
technical facilitation has been extended through digital forensic
analysis, cyber tracking, digital crime investigation to local Law
Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in cases such as murder, robbery,
extortion and many more.
The other step was technical trainings on cyber crime, digital
forensics, information security to LEAs including local police.
Awareness workshops and seminars at various academic
institutes and organizations were also conducted under crime
prevention and detection through awareness.
The measures adopted under research and developments included
development of Live Evidence Acquisition Dongle (LEAD) which is a
forensic tool to extract live evidence.
The other initiatives included development of a tool to help
track and identify location of e-mails, originating from unknown
source, development of in-house software application for forensic
request management, development of in-house software application for
complaints management and tracking, inputs regarding five-year
counter cyber terrorism strategy to National Counter Terrorism
Authority (NACTA) and furnishing a report on problems faced by LEAs
to trace down sub-standard mobile phones with same IMEI number.