Online bullying a major cyber-crime in Trinidad

TECH NEWS – CYBER-crimes such as cyber-bullying are on the rise, Minister of National Security Gary Griffith said as he unveiled legislation to tackle a range of cyber offences yesterday.

Piloting the Cybercrime Bill, 2014 and The Trinidad and Tobago Cyber Security Agency Bill, 2014, Griffith also appeared to make a link between cyber offences and the receipt of information in political mailboxes, saying the days of such practices would be over.

Griffith told MP s at the House of Representatives that reports from the police’s Cybercrime Unit showed cyber-crime was rising.“We have witnessed an increase in a number of cyber-incidents including online
bullying, attempted domain hijacking and website hacking and defacement,” Griffith said. He cited the April 2012 hacking into the Ministry of Finance and Parliament websites, as well as the July 2012 Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) skimming scams. More