The Economic Times 13 Dec, 2010 NEW DELHI: Computer experts have so far failed to untangle the web cast by a group of hackers from Pakistan on India's premier investigating agency CBI's internet space resulting in a 'dead' website which is not working even after 10 days of the cyber attack.
The website of the agency which collapsed after being attacked by hackers identifying themselves as "Pakistani Cyber Army" on the night of December two is still not operational, causing major embarrassment to the CBI. The experts of the CBI and National Informatics Centre who are trying to bring back the website to normal are finding the job too complicated because of software programmes used by the hackers, official sources said. The experts are also looking at any possible worms or programmes that might have infested the systems of the agency and which may make them vulnerable to being tracked by hackers again, they said. The sources said efforts are on to incorporate more security features to prevents any such attacks in future. On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Amar Deep <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Here is the video link : > http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/hacked-by-pakistan-cyber-army-cbi-website-still-not-restored-70568 > > Regards, > Amardeep Thakur, > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Srinivas Naik <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Check this out >> >> >> >> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/7047770.cms >> >> The Economic Times >> 5 Dec, 2010 >> >> NEW DELHI: The recent hacking of CBI's website by a group called >> 'Pakistani Cyber Army' has raised questions over the safety regulations >> of servers provided by National Informatics Centre, the organisation >> responsible for maintaining government servers. >> >> While the NIC maintains a studied silence over the entire issue, sources >> in the security establishment say that the safety mechanism of the NIC >> was not up to the mark and several reminders were being sent to them for >> upgrading their hardware. >> >> The official website of the CBI was hacked by the 'Pakistani Cyber Army' >> on the intervening night of December 3 and 4. The CBI had yesterday >> registered a case against unknown persons in this connection. >> >> Cheers, >> Srinivas Naik >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Srinivas Naik <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I hope NIC and team would come up with right information. >>> >>> and would take countermeasures for further. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Srinivas Naik >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Sandeep Thakur <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Lookslike 200+ websites there hosted by National Informatics Center >>>> (Including CBIs' website is infected). Though CBIs' website (Primary >>>> Target) is down now, risk impact is still not clear about how many >>>> websites got infected, what were the vulnerabilities, etc. Sources say >>>> that this attack has exploited the NIC servers at root level. So, >>>> probably forensics might reveal lots of details on insider/outsider >>>> threat as well. lIt seems CBI also has filed a site-hacking case per >>>> the IT Act on Unknown people (Strange). >>>> >>>> Next steps can be forensics as said, but with a real time expert >>>> rather then a NASSCOM, or any corporate do this. Our part incase the >>>> need be, we shall be ready to service our nation whether or not it >>>> calls for support on security and awareness. >>>> >>>> The requirement, no sooner or later we were thinking of having public >>>> seminars, with effect from today infact, we shall start it and train / >>>> measure the level of awareness available to all chiefs or important >>>> members who work for National Security. >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Sandeep Thakur >>>> >>>> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Srinivas Naik <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Hi Geeks, >>>> > >>>> > Yesturday night 3rd Dec 2010. Our INDIAN CBI sitegot H4ck3d.... >>>> > >>>> > -- what NEXT?? >>>> > >>>> > Whats our Immediate Action? >>>> > >>>> > Till where is our level of Awareness among Public and Govt. >>>> > >>>> > Cheers, >>>> > >>>> > 0xN41K >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups >>>> > "nforceit" group. >>>> > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >>>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> > [email protected]<nforceit%[email protected]> >>>> . >>>> > For more options, visit this group at >>>> > http://groups.google.com/group/nforceit?hl=en-GB. >>>> > >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "nforceit" group. >>>> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]<nforceit%[email protected]> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/nforceit?hl=en-GB. >>>> >>>> >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "nforceit" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<nforceit%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nforceit?hl=en-GB. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nforceit" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nforceit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nforceit?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nforceit" group. 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