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Is India Hackers' Refuge?
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 04 October 2011, 02:04 IST |
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A country that accounts for only 3 percent of Internet users in the world, India has been referred as the world's third largest source of spam three years in a row. India is also home to 17 percent of infected computers on the Internet that can be hijacked by criminals to do their command.
Our security agencies are mournfully ill-equipped to battle next to a new class of enemies who are typically dispersed, often state-less and always quick-witted.
So whenever a new virus or malware is exposed; India is right up there on the charts. And talking about presence of malicious code on computers, the United States leads the world closely followed by India.
Lately, a lethal Stuxnet virus spread across the world roughly wrecking the Iranian nuclear program and India was up there at number three with 10 percent of all infections.
According to a report by Forbes, Indian banks and government agencies are attacked with fearsome incidence and in many cases successfully. Sharad Sanghi, CEO of Netmagic feels, "The numbers of hacking attempts or incidents have gone up sharply in the past 12 months," reports Forbes. According to Symantec, the world's largest security software company, hacker attacks increased 93 percent over 2009-2010.
