IT act to be amended to help detection of cyber crimes

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Centre plans to amend the Information Technology Act by incorporating provisions to treat as evidence in a court of law, cyber forensics devices and tools used for cracking cyber crimes, Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology A Raja said here.

Speaking after dedicating to the nation the full-fledged Resource Centre for Cyber Forensics under Centre for Development of Advances Computing here, Raja said necessary amendments to IT act would be brought in the next session of parliament.

On the activities of the Forensic centre, Raja said the main objective was to develop indigenous cyber forensics technology to make the country self-reliant in combating cyber crimes.

Raja also commissioned the Mobile Telmedicine Facility and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based programme for 'Rehabilitation Officials and Special Teachers.' It is aimed at establishing infrastructure facility to impart distant training to special educators and professionals engaged in the education and rehabilitation of mentally challenged children.

Development of tools for cyber forensics, state-of-the-art training in cyber forensics and technical services like cyber crime analysis, and cyber crime investigation were some of the activities of the centre.

Emailtracer, Cyberinvestigator, PDA analyser, Trueimager, Truelock, cyberchek and Trueback were some of the tools developed by the Resource Centre for detecting various types of cyber crimes.

C-DAC Director General S Ramakrishnan, M Madhavan Nambiar, Special IT secretary Department of Information Technology were among those present on the occasion.