http://www.theindiasite.com/india-hacked-part-i/ By Ulrik McKnight The India Site Sep 14, 2011 Since 2009 there has been repeated evidence of severe hacking of Indian government and military organizations, industries, and even journalists’ email accounts. The evidence shows successful long-term cyber-attacks and cyber-espionage, with strong indications that nation states are involved. The list of compromised Indian targets reads like a spy’s fantasy: TATA, DLF, the National Security Council Secretariat, Indian embassies around the world, the Air Force Station at Race Course Road, the Army Institute of Technology, the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, prominent journalists and academics writing on Kashmir, and many more. Confidential materials have poured out of India like water from a bucket full of holes. March 2009: Researchers at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto and the SecDev Group in Canada conducted an investigation into cyber attacks called Tracking Ghostnet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network. They found a global network of compromised computers of high-value targets. This included abouta dozen compromised India-related targets, including the National Informatics Centre, Indian embassies around the globe, the Tibetan Government-in-Exile and the private office of the Dalai Lama. They called their report a “wake-up call”. April 2010: The same researchers released a follow-up report, Shadow in the Clouds: Investigating Cyber Espionage 2.0, after hacking the hackers they were investigating. They managed to gain access to some of the documents the hackers had pulled out of infected computers. Astonishingly, they found 13 Indian government documents classified as Secret, Restricted or Confidential. China was viewed as the most likely culprit. July 2011: Evidence emerged suggesting the Italian cyberpolice, the National Anti-Crime Computer Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection, had hacked one or more Indian embassies and stolen documents relating to defence deals. August 2011: The computer security company McAfee released Revealed: Operation Shady RAT, a report indicating, amongst other things, that they had found an Indian government agency to have been hacked. [...] _____________________________________________________________ Register now for the #HITB2011KUL - Asia's premier deep-knowledge network security event now in it's 9th year! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2011kul/Received on Thu Sep 15 2011 - 02:13:09 PDT
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