New Delhi: All nations should enact legislations to have an appropriate legal framework for standardisation of offences as this would enhance sharing of evidence between the countries, the CBI said today.

"All countries need to have an appropriate legal framework and if there could be some standardisation in the definition of offences.... Across the national boundaries, it would ease and enhance collection and sharing of evidence between the countries. This is something which the Parliaments have to do," CBI Special Director M L Sharma said.

Inaugurating a course on cyber-crime investigation, attended by Interpol and law enforcement officials from several foreign countries, he said Cyber crime represents a wide array of offences and they could be as innocuous as a spam mail to the complex hacking and botnet attacks and capable of causing serious security breaches.

Sharma said internet holds great potential for terrorists, either as a channel of money laundering or as a means of networking.

Organised jointly by the CBI and Interpol, the 19-day workshop would be attended by officers from China, Maldives, Philippines and 17 officers from CBI and state police.

The workshop will focus on technical expertise in the areas of IT crime and digital forensics.

"The aim is to chase the ever-innovating cyber criminal who even transcends national borders," CBI Academy Director Pankaj Saxena said while figuring out that there are 700 million internet users in the world.

The Interpol, which has brought European trainers for the purpose, would be training the officers in forensic process, Voice Over IP, hiding logical partitions, encryption, forensic tools, Trojan defences, internet monitoring and patrolling.

Interpol officer Dimitrios Angelopoulos said the trainers should undergo the training seriously as their countries have "invested" in them.

Source : PTI