Lack of defence against hacking?

Source: Deccan Chronicle - Posted by Dave Wreski

With several government websites hacked or defaced over the last few days, members of the hacker group “Anonymous” have labelled the country’s cyber security setup as a “joke”, and said they could easily hack into servers of most government organisations. While the import of cyber security is now recognised across the globe, both the Centre and the state government have done little to raise the bar.

Answering a question in Parliament last month, Union minister of state for communications and information technology Sachin Pilot said, 248 government websites had been hacked last year, and 133 in the first three months of this year. The figures notwithstanding, there is no nodal agency in the country to look after cyber security, experts pointed out.

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