Awas! e-mel minta maklumat peribadi

KUALA LUMPUR 14 Feb. - Cybersecurity Malaysia mengingatkan pengguna Internet supaya berwaspada apabila menerima e-mel daripada institusi bank dengan meminta mendedahkan maklumat peribadi bagi mengelak ia digunakan untuk tujuan khianat oleh pihak tertentu.

E-mel itu meminta mengemaskinikan butiran peribadi, mengaktifkan semula akaun perbankan dalam talian atau menyertai dalam kaji selidik yang menawarkan ganjaran RM200.

Mereka yang menerima emel dengan pesanan seperti itu dinasihatkan supaya memadamkannya kerana dengan menjawab soalan itu mereka mungkin menjadi mangsa penipuan penjenayah siber yang kian meningkat.

Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif CyberSecurity Malaysia, Husin Jazri berkata, menjawab pesanan itu dengan memasukkan butiran peribadi seperti nama akaun perbankan dalam talian dan kata laluan merupakan percubaan untuk mencuri wang dalam akaun pemegang.

Oleh kerana laman web palsu itu menyerupai laman web bank yang sah, maka pelanggan terpedaya dengan memasukkan butiran peribadi sulit dan dengan itu nama dan kata laluan pemegang akaun dapati dicuri tanpa disyaki," katanya di sini hari ini.

Menurutnya, tahun lepas, Pusat Bantuan Cyber999 telah menerima sebanyak 3,564 aduan mengenai insiden penipuan dalam Internet iaitu meningkat 68 peratus aduan berbanding tahun sebelumnya.

Husin berkata, laman web palsu dibangunkan sama seperti laman web bank terkenal tempatan dan penghantaran emel dengan menggunakan soalan yang meyakinkan untuk pelanggan membuka hubungan kepada laman web palsu itu.

"Bank tidak pernah tanya pelanggannya khususnya pengguna e-perbankan untuk mengemaskinikan akaun, mengubah semula kata laluan atau butiran peribadi menerusi emel," katanya.

Husin berkata pihaknya, sebagai agensi di bawah Kementerian Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi, kini mengawasi keadaan itu dan bekerja rapat dengan Polis, Bank Negara dan Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia dengan menyediakan sokong teknikal cara mengatasi ancaman siber ini.

Katanya, kegiatan penipuan siber semakin menonjol setiap tahun dan dianggap salah satu ancaman besar dalam negara dan kerajaan mengambil langkah untuk memerangi jenayah siber dengan menubuhkan CyberSecurity Malaysia dan penggubalan Dasar Keselamatan Siber Kebangsaan (NCSP).

Katanya, dalam usaha mendidik masyarakat dan meningkatkan tahap kesedaran keselamatan internet, CyberSecurity telah membangunkan program 'CyberSAFE' yang mana orang awam boleh mendapatkan maklumat mengenai keselamatan internet dalam portal di alamatwww.cybersafe.my.

Pengguna internet yang ingin mendapatkan nasihat dan sokongan teknikal boleh menghubungi CyberSecurity di Pusat Bantuan Cyber999 di alamat emel cyber999@cybersecurity.my. -Bernama

More information security experts needed

KUALA LUMPUR: Although Internet banking cybercrimes are still at a manageable level, the country still needs to produce more information security experts, according to CyberSecurity Malaysia.

“I do not want to claim we have a lack of experts or that our experts are enough to solve problems but we need to collaborate to produce more experts,” said its chief executive officer Lt Col (Rtd) Husin Jazri.

He said with the number of Internet users rising and the trend moving into advanced levels, such as mobile banking, the country needs to be prepared in all areas, particularly with information security experts.

Currently, Malaysia has about 16 million Internet users, he told reporters after delivering the opening speech at the CyberSecurity RSA Seminar 2010 here.

On online banking, Husin said it was the users rather than financial institutions that were most affected by cybercrimes.

“I am not worried about the banks. They have a lot of money to secure their systems. They can have the world’s best consultants to look into their security systems,” he said.

“It’s the human part that gets affected, not the technological part. The users become the victims. When the users communicate with the banks, they are exposed to social engineering, online scams and other threats.”

According to Husin, online users should be aware that banks never do online maintenance as far as Internet banking is concerned for their customers.

“We need to educate users on this fact which can contribute towards curbing the problem (of social engineering),” he said.

From the total of 3,564 cases reported last year, 1,022 were fraud and forgery cases, which accounted for one-third of the reports, Husin said.

“We should share know-how and identify the necessary strategy to address threats such as the increasing risk of security breaches, identity theft, phishing and cyberterrorism,” he said. — Bernama

Woman declared bankrupt claims identity theft

By LISA GOH

lisagoh@thestar.com.my
KUALA LUMPUR: A car park attendant was declared bankrupt by the High Court after she failed to settle a bank loan for a RM167,000 Toyota Estima which she claims she never bought.

High Court senior assistant registrar Zaiton Anuar declared Halimahton Din, 39, a bankrupt in chambers yesterday following a suit filed by Bank Muamalat (M) Bhd against her for defaulting on her car loan.

According to Halimahton, however, she had never made such a purchase and she believed someone was abusing her identity by using her stolen identity card.

“I never took a loan for such a car. I’ve never even been inside this car which I supposedly bought,” she told reporters later.

Her plight was highlighted last October by a Malay tabloid after she failed to get a bank loan for a second-hand car she wanted to buy.

“It was only then that I found out that I had a bankruptcy notice against me,” said the mother of five, who earns RM1,100 a month at KL Sentral.

Her husband works as an auxiliary police, also in KL Sentral.

Halimahton, who was in tears after the order was made, also said she could not afford her lawyer’s fees.

Counsel Mohamad Fahmi Mat Radzi who represented Bank Muamalat, said the bank filed the creditor’s petition against Halimahton to recover the RM167,170.11 owed as of Feb 19, 2008.