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How safe is our national security data?
By siliconindia
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Friday, 05 August 2011, 00:25 IST |
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The increasing infiltration by these cyber criminals to the key government websites raises many eyebrows and here the concern of the general public arises - how safe is our national secrets and the vital data concerning our security? The age-old rivalry between India and Pakistan is no less on the web world and cyber defacement is the best weapon at the hands of the so-called 'cyber warriors'. A group called the 'Indian Cyber Army' hacked 35 Pakistani government websites in December of last year. In retaliation, a hacking group by name the 'Pakistani Cyber Army' attacked the CBI website and left a message which read, "This attempt is in response to the Pakistani websites hacked by 'Indian Cyber Army'. We told you before too ..we are sleeping but not dead..remember PCA (Pakistan cyber army)!..back off kids or we will smoke your d00rs off like we did before."
There has been an increased attempt from the Chinese hackers too to infiltrate into Indian websites both government and private, and most of them were successful. It's has been revealed by Sachin Pilot that the information on the website of National Investigation Agency (NIA) was temporarily disabled; however, he argued that the website was not hacked. Latest in the series, security experts have unearthed what termed as global cyber-espionage campaign or the biggest series of cyber attacks to date that involves infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations comprising the UN, many governments and companies across the globe. India is also reportedly hit by this espionage campaign dubbed 'Operation Shady RAT'.
