A new initiative is needed to bring the growing e-crime incidences back under control. The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has recommended a three fold initiative which will both contain and reduce the current e-crime figures.
The three fold initiative proposal is based around 3 core areas which are crucial in the battle against e-crime. These are
*Education
*Software Quality
*Law Enforcement
E-crime is a matter which effects everyone, both younger and older. With the internet growing daily and serving to solve a whole plethora of needs from research to shopping, gaming to chatting it is all too easy to become complacent and become a victim of e-crime whether this is due to improper use of personal information or falling victim to a phishing site. Perpetrators of e-crime prey on people who lead rushed lifestyles or who would be easily duped into giving out personal information.
National initiatives already in place such as 'get safe on line' has been criticised as being under promoted making the concept well intentioned but the message ineffective.
It is claimed that the main factor in e-crime is not the computer user but rather the design flaws and programming errors that can make normal behavior unsafe.
The entering of all information on the internet leaves a footprint and it is not hard for a fraudster to glean personal information from a number of websites which publicly display personal information. By combining education, software quality and law enforcement into a 3 fold initiative, the IET believes it will promote best practice. Training, the prevention of low quality software being created along with strengthening the ability of law enforcement agencies to both capture and pursue instigators of e-crime should go some way to resolving this growing problem.