
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. ...

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