The government has ordered a probe into reports that Chinese hackers targeted sensitive government files. Hundreds of sites are among those said to have been hacked. The DRDO though denied any of its sites were targeted. ...
04:05 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Jerusalem: More than 44 million hacking attempts have been made on Israeli government web sites since Wednesday when Israel began its Gaza air strikes, the government said on Sunday. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said just one hacking attempt was successful on a site he did not want to name, but it was up and running after 10 minutes of downtime. Typically, there are a few hundred hacking attempts a day...
09:50 AM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: Over 270 government websites were hacked till July this year, Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot informed parliament. "A total number of 201, 303, 308 and 273 government websites were hacked during the year 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 (till July) respectively," Pilot said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha this week. Asked if computer security analysts have issued alerts for internet users,...
05:02 PM, Sep 01, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Thursday issued guidelines for its departments using social media networks asking them not to post confidential information and "unverified" facts. With 40 million Facebook and 16 million Twitter users in India, social media have emerged as a powerful platform for forming an opinion as well as generating mass support, the Information Technology Ministry said in its 38-page guidelines issued on Thursday. "Great care must be...
06:54 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: Websites of all government organisations will move to the new Internet Protocol (IP), IPv6, by the year-end, the communications and information technology ministry said Wednesday. "A direction has been issued to all the government organisations to migrate their websites to IPv6 by December 2012," the ministry said in a statement. "As IPv6 is not backward compatible with IPv4, the transition to IPv6 is likely to be a complex,...
10:27 AM, Jun 07, 2012
New Delhi: A total of 112 government websites belonging to various state government agencies, Planning Commission and Finance Ministry were hacked in the three-month period ending February 2012, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. "During the period December 2011 to February 2012, a total number of 112 government websites were hacked," Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. These hacked...
09:33 PM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: Two people were arrested for cheating unemployed youths by promising them government jobs through fake government websites, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said on Saturday. "The accused were running fake offices and websites in the names of government organizations like 'Rashtriya Gramin Vikas Awam Suchna Sansthan' and 'NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) Samiti'," said a CBI official. According to the investigative agency, the accused were arrested...
07:59 PM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: Nine official websites including that of the Power Ministry, Maharashtra, Kerala and Uttarakhand Governments were defaced in the recent past, forcing the authorities to strengthen cyber security safeguards. The websites www.kumbh2010haridwar.gov.in, www.ueppcb.uk.gov.in, www.gov.ua.nic.in/ujn, www.cdodoon.gov.in, www.arunachal.nic.in,www.bee-india.nic.in, www.civilsupplieskerala.gov.in, www.mpcb.gov.in and www.informatics.nic.in were defaced, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said in an RTI reply. "A number of hacking attempts are made on daily...
03:25 PM, Feb 09, 2012
The Government still doesn't have a concrete policy on how to deal with it. ...
10:02 PM, May 05, 2008
