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Is India Hackers' Refuge?
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 04 October 2011, 02:02 IST |
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Bangalore: India is a coveted and trouble-free board for cyber criminals, and if it does not do something safe and sound, its calculated assets could be compromised.
India might be on the edge to turn out to be a software superpower by 2020, but it emerged as one of the top three breeding grounds for web-based attacks.
The country stands next to the U.S. and Brazil where such malevolent attacks originated, revealed a Symantec's Internet Security Threat report. India figured 13th on the list the previous year.
Being one of the lowest hanging fruits on the Internet, India is always vulnerable and fruitful for hackers. Inside our boundaries they discover the perfect grouping of the cybercrime targets, plentiful vectors and lethargic barricades.
Indians are now taking e-commerce and Internet banking in a huge way. As our business in public and private sector is expanding, the payoff from attacking any one of those can be huge. Every second a computer in India is likely to have been infected with a virus in the past three months.
