9,174 Indian Websites Hacked till May It Minister

New Delhi:  Minister of Communications and data Technology sitar player Prasad on weekday aforementioned nine,174 Indian websites were hacked by numerous hacker teams from totally different components of the globe until might 2014.

"These incidents enclosed phishing, scanning, spam, malicious code, web site intrusions etc. These attacks have been discovered to be orginating from the cyber area of variety of nations as well as USA, Europe, Brazil, Turkey, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, African country and UAE," he aforementioned in reply to an issue in the Lok Sabha.

In addition to the hacking tries, 62,189 security incidents were reportable throughout identical period to the Indian pc Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).

"It has been discovered that the attackers compromise pc systems situated in different components of the globe and use masquerading techniques and hidden servers to cover the identity of actual system from that the attacks are being launched," mister Prasad additional.

The government has circulated pc Security Policy and guidelines to all the ministries and departments on taking steps to stop, discover and mitigate cyber attacks.

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