CBI Website Hacked, National Informatics Centre Security Under Question

The official website of the CBI was hacked by the ‘Pakistani Cyber Army’ on the intervening night of December 3 and 4. The CBI had registered a case against unknown persons in this connection.

The recent hacking of CBI’s website by a group called ‘Pakistani Cyber Army’ has raised questions over the safety regulations of servers provided by National Informatics Centre (NIC), the organisation responsible for maintaining government servers.

With hackers mainly from China very active and having penetrated deep into the cyber space, the security agencies had asked all ministries especially the defence, external, home and the Prime Minister’s office (PMO) to separate their official computers with those with Internet facility.

China is actively developing an operational capacity in cyberspace, correctly identifying it as the domain in which it can achieve strategic parity, if not superiority, over the military establishments of the United States and its allies. [via DNA]