Still no date yet for my cyber training. However, I will continue to blog on this important subject. While my agency postponed my training the internet is growing and the thieves are learning new ways to commit cyber crimes. The addition of the new iPhone 6 and its new pay system will be another challenge for law enforcement. I hear that it will include some form of cloud system to access payment to merchants. Someone like myself without any form of cyber training will not know how to assist a potential victim. The newer the technology the more opportunity for hackers and cyber criminals to commit crimes.

Training postponed

My Cyber training that was scheduled was postponed. The training that was scheduled is exclusive to Law Enforcement and with the current issues in Pennsylvania it caused the training to be continued to another day.  I will update this blog when I have the date scheduled.

I am going to training

This is my third blog and I have to provide you with this important information. My organization is sending me to  “Gathering, Handling, Exploiting Cyber Evidence” training. This is my organizations first attempt at providing training to its officers. The sad thing about this, out of all the officers at my station only two of us singed up for this training. I guess some people think this is not an important issue.

            The training consists of: forensics summary, legal issues, changes/current technology, basic forensic tools, and forensics live demonstration, case/scenario and forensics misc. I am looking forward to this training and will update you on the completion of it.

Data from the FBI Crime Statistics report shows that from 2003-2011, traditional bank robberies has decreased, while data from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) annual report from 2001-2012 have shown that cyber attacks has increased.

            Cyber crimes are a new kind of threat and this data should be an eye-opener for local police agencies to get on board with the training of their officers against the threats of cyber crimes.