The vulnerability of Indian website especially the government owned yet again came to light causing serious concern when Chinese hackers hacked the BSNL Gujarat website, www.gujarat.bsnl.co.in. It reveals the fact that the government owned telecom measure is no more under its control.
After hacking the government owned telecom website, the hackers left a message on the index page as: “Hacked By Cilgin Hacker thanks: m0sted, kerem125, sari_seytan, ercu_145 all Terörist Crew”. The sources however expressed confidence that no sensitive material was acquired by the hackers and the website now is fully functional.
Chinese hackers, as most of the hackers’ IP address sketched to China, has been continuously attacking Indian official websites in order to access e-mails and communications between the officials and foreign mission.
As of now there is no such technology developed to provide complete protection to a website, but the only option to constantly monitor the development in the site. Under such circumstances where Internet has replaced every other option in all works, security to official documents, emails is a major security concern.
Earlier this month, the website of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India was hacked by some Chinese hackers. Also on the same day hackers got access to the server of official website of Tibetan government-in-exile in India and blocked the site, which was later restored.
In fact, it is not only India, but also the official network of Pentagon, Germany was targeted by hackers last year. However, Chinese officials have been rejecting this allegation terming it as baseless argument.
No doubt there must be large network of hackers, who are hacking official computer networks of different countries in order to destabilize or distract the communication network at any crucial time posing a great threat to the entire functioning.
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Comments:
neel
August 12, 2008 at 12:00 AM
kunal
May 14, 2008 at 12:00 AMthis is going to happen since, computer is getting stronger everyday and loopholes too.
Sourabh Mathur
May 13, 2008 at 12:00 AMChinese or Pakis, they have always been a threat to India's cyber security. Before the matter reaches gigantic proportion we should implement some concrete steps in curbing such nuisances. Being young citizens of India it should be our responsibilty to retaliate by launching a collaborative cyber war against those foreign countries.
amey joshi
May 13, 2008 at 12:00 AMIndian government should take immedeiate actions against chinese hackers through international court and should develop more prompt security measures
Jits
May 13, 2008 at 12:00 AMThe thing is that these guys might not be chinese or even live in china they might some other nationals using compromised chinese servers and launching an attack from there !
So when we trace these guys the ip traces back to China ! To know the exact location of the hacker could be really hard but not impossible !
Pranav Joshi
May 13, 2008 at 12:00 AMThe comment stating that currently there is no technology to provide complete protection is inaccurate.
There are multiple ways to ensure security of websites... convenience however almost always supersedes everything
IndianCoder
May 13, 2008 at 12:00 AMHack back Chinese Sites in return, Indians are better at IT.
on one hand we boast of worlds best computer engineers & we cannot save our own country from being hacked!