‘Cyber criminals hacked14K web sites till oct this year’
17 Dec 2012 6:38 AM IST
Over 14,000 websites have been hacked by cyber criminals till October this year, an increase of nearly 57 per cent from 2009. While the number of websites hacked in 2009 stood at 9,180, it grew to 14,232 in 2011 and in the first 10 months of this year itself it has already crossed the 14,300-mark.
About 16,126 websites were hacked in 2010, while 14,392 websites were hacked in the year 2012 (till October), as per the information tracked and reported by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team. To check hacking and cyber crimes, the government has conducted six cyber security mock drills since November 2009 to assess preparedness of organisations to withstand cyber attacks, Communications & IT Minister Kapil Sibal had said in Parliament. He had said ministries and departments have been advised to carry out their IT system audit regularly to ensure robustness of their systems. A total of 294 websites belonging to various ministries and government departments were hacked in the January-October 2012 period. During May-June, 2012, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were launched against a number of government websites by various hacker groups. A DDoS attack attempts to make a network resource unavailable to its intended users.
About 16,126 websites were hacked in 2010, while 14,392 websites were hacked in the year 2012 (till October), as per the information tracked and reported by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team. To check hacking and cyber crimes, the government has conducted six cyber security mock drills since November 2009 to assess preparedness of organisations to withstand cyber attacks, Communications & IT Minister Kapil Sibal had said in Parliament. He had said ministries and departments have been advised to carry out their IT system audit regularly to ensure robustness of their systems. A total of 294 websites belonging to various ministries and government departments were hacked in the January-October 2012 period. During May-June, 2012, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were launched against a number of government websites by various hacker groups. A DDoS attack attempts to make a network resource unavailable to its intended users.
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