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Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said he has asked ministry officials to formulate an effective counter-strategy to deal with the menace of cyber crime.
"Cyber crime not only has local but global impact. I have given directives in my department to formulate an effective prevention strategy to prevent cyber crime," Singh said.
From a mere 23 incidents of cyber crime in 2004, the number has jumped to a whooping 72,000 in the country in a decade, say reports.
In the first five-months of this year, government's cyber security arm Computer Emergency Response Team-India (CERT-In) indicates that 62,189 cyber security incidents were reported.
