Present Trend of Cyber Crime in Bangladesh

Presentation Topic
Present Trend of Cyber Crime in
Bangladesh: Regulatory Gaps
and Future Directions.

Presented To:
Dr. Jakerul Abedin
Department of Law & Justice,
Southeast University.
Presented By
Debashish Mojumder
Md. Main Uddin
Sohan Khan
Mahmudul Hasan
Md. Firoz Mahmud

Content
1. Introduction
2. What is Cyber Crime?
3. Internet and Cyber Crime
4. Types of Cyber Crime
5. Present Trend of Cyber Crime
6. Impact of Cyber Crime
7. Reasons of Cyber Crime
8. Cyber Law in Bangladesh
9. Regulatory Gaps
10. Necessary Legislations in Bangladesh to Tackle Cyber Crime
11. Conclusion
12. Future Directions or Recommendation

Introduction
Cyber crime is an activity done using computers and
internet. We can say that it is an unlawful acts wherein
the computer either a tool or target or both.

 What is Cyber Crime?
Debarati Halder and K. Jaishankar define
cybercrimes as: "Offences that are committed against
individuals or groups of individuals with a criminal
motive to intentionally harm the reputation of the
victim or cause physical or mental harm, or loss, to the
victim directly or indirectly, using modern
telecommunication networks such as Internet and
mobile phones.

 Examples of Cyber Crime:
Copyright Infringement
Child Pornography
Piracy
Cyber extortion
Identity Theft
Phishing
Carding

 Internet Crime:
The Internet is known as the
World Wide Web. The Internet
may also be used to engage in
other activities such as sending
and receiving emails, trading
files, exchanging instant
messages, chatting online,
streaming audio and video, and
making voice calls.

 Examples of Computer Crimes:
Improperly accessing a computer, system, or network;
Modifying, damaging, using, disclosing, copying, or taking programs
or data;
Introducing a virus or other contaminant into a computer system;
Using a computer in a scheme to defraud;
Interfering with someone else's computer access or use;
Using encryption in aid of a crime;
Falsifying email source information; and
Stealing an information service from a provider.

 Types of Cyber Crime
CYBERCRIMES IN TWO WAYS BASED ON USE OF COMPUTER:
THE COMPUTER AS A TARGET: Using a computer to attack other computers.
E.g. Hacking, Virus/Worm attacks, DOS attack etc.
THE COMPUTER AS A WEAPON: Using a computer to commit real world crimes.
E.g. Cyber Terrorism, Credit card frauds, Pornography etc.
TYPES OF CYBERCRIME:
1. Unauthorized use of a computer
2. Cybercrime may be committed by creating or releasing a malicious
computer program.
(E.g. computer virus, Trojan horse).
3. Cybercrime may be committed by stalking in cyberspace.

 BROAD CLASSIFICATION:
The subject of Cybercrime may be broadly classified into three groups. These are-
AGAINST INDIVIDUALS
A. Person &
B. Property of an individual
AGAINST ORGANIZATION
A. Government.
B. Firm, Company, Group of Individuals.
AGAINST SOCIETY AT LARGE
A. Polluting the youth through indecent exposure.
B. Pornography
C. Financial crimes.
D. Sale of illegal articles, online gambling, etc.

 Misuse of Information Technology
Unauthorized access and hacking
Virus dissemination
Software piracy
Credit card fraud
Illegal sales of articles
Email bombing
Email spoofing
Cyber deformation
Email spamming
Pornography

 Present Trend of Cyber Crime:
1. Bangladesh Bank Heist 2016
2. Skype Scandal over International War Crime Tribunal
3. Bangladesh Computer society website hacked in 2012
4. Stealing the transaction report of Dhaka Stock Exchange
5. Partho threatening prime minister Sheikh Hasina through
email in 2004
6. Inserting porn movies to the Bangladesh National
Parliament website.

 Impact of cyber crime:
1. Impact against individual
2. Impact against individuals property
3. Impact against organization
4. Impact against government
5. Impact against society

 Reasons of cyber crime:
1. Easy to access
2. Weak security
3. Negligence
4. Loss of evidence
5. Weak gateway security
6. Bad intention of uses Internet
7. Unfamiliarity of technology
8. Absence of proper filter
& Others

 Cyber Law in Bangladesh:
1. Bangladesh plans for strict Cyber-Crime laws
2. The Information and Communication
Technology Act, 2006
Drafted Act
1. The Digital Security Act, 2016

 Regulatory Gaps:
(i) The Act remains silent about various intellectual property rights like copy right, trade mark
and patent right of e-information and data.
(ii) The enactment has a major effect on e-commerce and m-commerce in Bangladesh. But it
keeps itself mum as to electronic payment of any transaction.
(iii) The legislation was initially supposed to be applied to crimes committed all over the
world; but nobody knows how this can be achieved in practice.
(iv) Spamming has become a peril in the west as such they have made anti spamming
provisions in cyber law. However, there is no anti spamming provision in our Act.
(v) Domain name is the major issue which relates to the internet world thoroughly. But the
ICT Act, 2006 does not define ‘domain name’ and the rights and liabilities relating to this.
(vi) The Act does not address any crime committed through using mobile phones.
(vii) This law made e-mails as evidence, conflicting with the country’s Evidence Act that does
not recognize as e-mails as evidence.

 Cyber Tribunal:
According to section 68 of the Information and Communication
Technology Act, 2006 for the speedy and effective disposal of
cases under this Act, Government shall establish one or more
cyber tribunal.
Cyber tribunal shall take a case for trial –
a) Upon the report of a police officer not below the rank of sub-
inspector or
b) Upon a complaint made by a controller appointed under this
Act or by any other person authorized by the controller.

 Cyber Appellate Tribunal:
The Government shall establish one or more cyber appellate
tribunal. The appellate tribunal shall be constituted by one
chairman and two members appointed by the Government.
They shall be appointed for 3-5 years.
Cyber Appellate Tribunal shall have no original jurisdiction.
It shall only hear and dispose of appeals from the order and
judgment of the Cyber Tribunal and Sessions Court in
appropriate cases. The decision of the appellate tribunal shall
be final.

 Conclusion:
Basically, no notable cyber crime has yet been committed in
Bangladesh. The gradual dependence and extensive use of computer
and information technology by the financial institutions like bank,
insurance company, and other non-government organizations
increase the fear of commission of cyber crime here. Computer has
been used as a tool of crime like making forged certificates and
documents for a number of years in Bangladesh though the incident
of targeting computer or computer system is very unusual.

 Future Directions:
suggest the government to enact cyber law in our country to prevent cyber
criminals from committing cyber crime in Bangladesh.
suggest Government to establish one digital forensic laboratory in our country for
investigation and detection of cyber crime.
urgent need to develop a cyber crime legislation that will protect cyber security in
Bangladesh.
Cyber police force is also needed in order to detect cyber criminals.
providing training for a group of professionals and developing software.
There is also a need to have more projects on cyber crime legislation and
enforcement capacity building and training courses through out the country.

Field Visit:
With Director of Legal & Licensing Division of BTRC

Present Trend of Cyber Crime in Bangladesh

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