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India: Cyber Attack Target 10 Government Websites

Via Daily News & Analysis India (DNA).

Hackers have struck again with nearly 10 websites belonging to various ministries and departments of the government of India coming under attack in the last 24 hours. The hackers are suspected to be from China, though there was no official confirmation.

Confirming the cyber attack, a senior IT ministry official told DNA, "Low to medium intensity cyber intrusions into web servers maintained by the Indian government have been reported."

The IT ministry’s computer emergency response team downplayed the violations calling them routine efforts by other parties to map out networks.

"Nearly 7,000 websites are hacked every year in India which means that on an average 19 sites are hacked a day. For us this is routine business, not a cyber attack," a top CERT official told DNA.

Government officials, who tried to access the websites, reported problems like not being able to log into the email servers and not being able to transfer files through the networks. A few websites had to be shut down.

posted by Fergie @ 6/06/2008 08:13:00 PM