692 Government Sites Hacked [Technology]
Indian government’s site getting hacked is not a news, but 692 of them? Well, that’s a news and is representative of the sad state of technology in government sector.
As per a report by ToI, 692 government websites have been hacked in September month alone, out of which 511 had .in domain (74%), 20% had .com domain.
Common hack methods include stealing admin password and entering the site via FTP or web server.
‘However, it is a technical field that needs a lot of expertise. We are not yet equipped to handle such pressure as of now. We hope that further training can help us in cracking these cases,’’ said a senior official of the economic offences wing, which handles cases for Delhi police.
692 sites in one month! – Isn’t it high time government upgrade it’s technology infrastructure (and stop talking vaporware like making government sites accessible compliant?)
What’s your opinion?
Funny people. “We are not yet equipped to handle such pressure as of now. We hope that further training can help us in cracking these cases”… One side of India is pushing out Google Wave from America, and the other side is saying I am a “crack”.
Reservations, negative attitude, egos and all this crap functioning of government is responsible for such worse situations.
Very bad to hear this.
haha, lol these government officers are good to retire now, too old and outdated to handle the internet/computer…
@manish I have a doubt here.. Are you sure that all the 692 sites are government sites? What I have learned that 692 indian sites are being hacked which includes few of the government sites… You have cited the source to TOI which doesn’t say explicitly that all sites hacked are government sites… I was going through the article in Mid Day which is saying that it they are not all government sites that were hacked..
http://www.mid-day.com/news/2009/nov/051109-defaced-indian-websites.htm
And also the agency (CERT-In) that has released these results doesn’t say anything that these all 692 are government sites or any other indian sites… Can you please mention the source of your findings…