There were around 9,000 websites in India that were hacked in the past five years. The threat India has faced in the past has been brash -- like the attack on the Central Bureau of Investigation website a couple of months ago -- and has often been veiled.
The most shocking bit of information came when cyber security investigative officer Jeffrey Karr pointed out that it was the Stuxnet worm that brought down the Indian Space Research Organisation satellite INSAT 4B. He had also pointed out that this was done with an intention of serving China's business interests..........
In addition to this, India's oil rigs have been targeted through a method known as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)...........
Cyber security experts say that there is an ongoing war in the online space between India and Pakistan. There are a bunch of guys who call themselves as the Pakistan Hackers Army, who are under the control of their security establishment. So far they have been carrying out more attacks with the intention of embarrassing the security establishment in India. However, the real threat is not from these attackers, but from the ones targeting the SCADA software.
This would mean water boards, satellites, factories and power plants that cater to essential services would be hit once such an attack is carried out......
Indian Intelligence officials point out that there is a lot of snooping that is taking place on cyber space and there have been many instances to show that countries such as China are looking for information. Affected areas have been the border security control systems, the defence ministry and also the ministry of external affairs. It is no longer a minor problem and if India does not get its act together soon, the situation will become very serious.
