Indian website defacement up in April
By agencies   |   Monday, 16 May 2005, 19:30 IST   |    1 Comments
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NEW DELHI: About 70 instances of Indian website defacement were reported in popular domains including .com and .org in April compared to 67 in March, according to data compiled by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-in). According to Cert-in statistics, the bulk of defacement occurred in .com domain. Against 32 defacements reported in March, about 43 incidents were reported in April. A total of 18 defacement cases were witnessed in ‘.co.in’, ‘gov.in’ and ‘.org’domain during the period, while the rest were reported in ‘.net’, ‘.ac.in’, ‘.biz’ and ‘.info’ websites. There were no reports of defacement in ‘.edu’, ‘.in’, and ‘.name’, domain during April. The number of Indian website defacement recorded in April and March this year is significantly lower compared to the first two months of the year. As many as 798 cases of website hacking were tracked by Cert-in in January this year the highest since June 2004. The sharp rise was primarily on account of mass defacement attempts detected in January, which accounted for 699 site defacements. In February, the number came down to 218. In contrast, the number of site defacement stood at 49 in December 2004 that included 21 ‘.com’ websites, 8 ‘.co.in’ sites and 5 ‘.ac.in’ sites, besides some in ‘.gov.in’ and ‘.org.in’, domains.

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