Internet adds up to an increasingly convenient lifestyle for consumers, but new sorts of cyber crimes equally grow. The lack of international law enforcement is a major challenge to fight cyber crime, international experts said during the Europol-INTERPOL Cybercrime Conference here on Wednesday.

"We all face challenges coming from the rapid development of the Internet. More than 24 billion devices will soon be connected 24/7 to the Internet. Considerable amounts of data will be generated and shared between laptops, tablets and mobile phones. These data include information about our behavior, such as our location, health, web searches and so on," Troels Oerting, head of the European Cybercrime Centre, said in a press release.

But according to Oerting, unfortunately most of the Internet users are not sufficiently aware on how to protect their devices against cyber crime.

Also, due to the fact that consumers are not sufficiently aware about the potential dangers of cyber crime, another major problem for national cyber crime units is the fact that international cybercriminals often operate outside the domain of domestic and international law enforcement.

One of the most common and rapidly evolving cyber crimes is the increasing amount of counterfeit products that are sold online.

"So imagine you want to have a Louis Vuitton bag from a fake site. You will put in your credit card details, but the product will never arrive, but your bank account will be emptied instead," Oerting said

The expert added "What we see now is that websites selling fake medicines emerge. But the products you get will be fake, and sometimes even dangerous. I don't think the police forces are looking tight enough into this area, so as a consumer one should be extremely careful."

A set of online videos aiming to think about the dangers of cyber threats was launched during the two-day meeting.

The set of online videos was designed to get industry, business, government and other security dependent stakeholders thinking about the threats they may face at the end of the decade, and how to better prepare for the future.

Many experts understood that in order to prepare for the future international cooperation and legislations are crucial. For now, existing laws in many countries are not tailored to deal with cybercrime and criminals increasingly conduct crimes on the Internet in order to take advantages of the less severe punishments or difficulties of being traced.

"One of the biggest challenges in terms of fighting cyber crimes is the fact that legislation varies from country to country. What happens is that a criminal conducts the crime in one country while not physically being there. So cooperation between countries and international legislations are mandatory in order to make the fight against cyber crime a success," Noboru Nakatani, Executive Director of Interpol told Xinhua. Endi

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