20.1 Responses to Threats and Attacks: Responses to Threats and Cyber Attacks

Malaysia has the Computer Crimes Act of 1997 (Act 563, 30 June 1997) and the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act of 2002 (Act 621, 30 May 2002) to deal with cybercrime. To a certain extent, the Penal Code (Act 574, 7 August 1997 with the first enactment (F.M.S. Cap 45) in 1936) and the Multimedia and Communications Act of 1998 (Act 588, 15 Octob…