sasi
Senior Member
- Joined
- Nov 18, 2012
- Messages
- 3,401
- Likes
- 1,690
DRDO's website defaced by Algerian hacker group SanFour25 - The Times of India
~
Websites of key Indian government organisations reportedly came under cyber attacks.
NEW DELHI: Websites of key Indian government organisations, including anadvisor to the prime minister and the defence establishment DRDO, reportedly came under cyber attacks, leading to their shutdown for a while,government sources said.
The government sources said some "suspicious and unwanted" activity was observed on these websites, maintained by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), following which these were shut down for a couple of hours.
"After checking the websites, these were restored," a source said, adding that the informationcontained by these websites is already in the public domain.
"There are no secrets on these websites," they stressed.
Among the sites that came under the attack were those of the prime minister's adviser on public information, infrastructure and innovations - Welcome to the website of Adviser to PM on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations, and Recruitment and Assessment Centre (RAC) of the Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO) www.rac.gov.in.
Sam Pitroda is the prime minister's adviser on public information, infrastructure and innovations, while RAC takes care of the process of scientists recruitment for the DRDO.
The cyber attackers group, said to be 'SanFour25', also targeted five more Indian websites and defaced them.
_
~
Websites of key Indian government organisations reportedly came under cyber attacks.
NEW DELHI: Websites of key Indian government organisations, including anadvisor to the prime minister and the defence establishment DRDO, reportedly came under cyber attacks, leading to their shutdown for a while,government sources said.
The government sources said some "suspicious and unwanted" activity was observed on these websites, maintained by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), following which these were shut down for a couple of hours.
"After checking the websites, these were restored," a source said, adding that the informationcontained by these websites is already in the public domain.
"There are no secrets on these websites," they stressed.
Among the sites that came under the attack were those of the prime minister's adviser on public information, infrastructure and innovations - Welcome to the website of Adviser to PM on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations, and Recruitment and Assessment Centre (RAC) of the Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO) www.rac.gov.in.
Sam Pitroda is the prime minister's adviser on public information, infrastructure and innovations, while RAC takes care of the process of scientists recruitment for the DRDO.
The cyber attackers group, said to be 'SanFour25', also targeted five more Indian websites and defaced them.
_
i think its time for the GOI to recruit some of the top hackers in the country and form a anti-haking task force and mind it if guys like Ankit Fadia are recruited by the GOI then these "so called" anti-Indian hackers will be having nightmares dealing with these people:cool2:!
