kolkata the country has witnessed a 220 hike in cyber fraud during the pandemic and the day is not far when jamtara gangs will become more tech savvy and potentially more dangerous claimed a group of cyber experts the experts who attended an interaction on friday evening said it can be a matter of a few minutes during which cyber frauds may be able to use a device transmitting on the same radio frequency as a remote key fob to muddle the signal and even unlock a victims car they can similarly hack into a modern smart connect house and get personal details from mobile phonesthere is a need to develop highquality research that can detect and collect digital forensic evidence and combat such crimes the experts said it is with these objectives that the cyber security centre of excellence west bengal and the indian school of anti hacking isoah have decided to open a digital forensic lab at the cost of rs 50 lakh in the sdf building where we will give handson training to future cyber experts this will be operational from march said sandeep sengupta founder director of isoahat present there are three similar labs in the city one with kolkata police one with cid and another at the central forensic lab all three are busy probing crimes where no handson training is possible but we want to make kolkata the hub of digital crime prevention and research hence this lab will be imparting training to all said sengupta in addition the csce and isoah have tied up with maulana abul kalam azad university of technology to launch a course in bsc honours in digital forensics for the first time in eastern india the future is in the internet of things which is a system of interrelated computing devices mechanical and digital machines objects animals or people provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring humantohuman or humantocomputer interaction once that regime sets in antihacking methods will be critical to business and security we need at least 10 lakh researchers for the job that has less than a lakh now said gulab mondal a cyber expert