State to open e-police station

Maharashtra is finally getting its own full-fledged, cyber crime
police station. City police sources said the rising number of cyber
crimes as well as the need to protect the growing Business Process
Outsourcing (BPO) industry has made it imperative for the state to
get its own committed cyber crime-fighting unit with access to state-
of-the-art technology.

The police station has been sanctioned by the home department and is
expected to be functioning within three months. It will be the third

Cyber crime is on the rise with over 2344 Indian websites have been
broken into by cyber thieves in the first five months of this year
as compared to 5200 that were defaced during the entire year 2006.

The period between, January 1 to May 15 this year witnessed 2344
breach of cyber security while in July, the figure was 38, a report
of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said.

Phishers or hackers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive
information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by