Click to play videoNew Delhi: India's cyber security is under threat. For more than a year now, China has been regularly attacking the Indian cyberspace.
Several big attacks have been sourced to China over the last few months include one on National Informatics Centre, which was aimed at the National Security Council, and on the MEA.
Security experts fear apart from giving China a good idea of the content, it will also enable them to disable the networks during a conflict.
Off the records senior government officials admit that these attacks are not isolated incidents of hacking but a more sophisticated and methodical one.
India though has a dedicated team to deflect these attacks, is yet to come up with an aggressive strategy to counter them.
Earlier in April, Chinese hackers targeted the Indian embassy computers in Beijing on Thursday.
Official sources confirmed these attempts but said classified information has not been compromised.
They said computers storing sensitive data are standalone systems not linked to the Internet. CERT-IN, the official watchdog that tracks hacking of government networks, has refused to comment on the matter.
“No website is 100 per cent safe. There are websites with high level of security but there is always some weakness,” China’s cyber hacker Xiao Chen.
Chen and his friends run a hacking website from China. It claims 10,000 registered users and 50,000 hits a day, thanks to the useful advice and free software it offers for breaking into computer systems.
Chen boasts two of his colleagues have hacked into the Pentagon. CNN has no way of verifying that.
(With agency inputs)
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