Indian Government web-sites need attention

The Hacker collective Anonymous joined the fight against Indian corruption by hacking the site of the Indian government IT website NIC, the National Informatics Center. Ostensibly the hack was a retaliation for the government’s violence against Indian activist Baba Ramdev, who had been staging a hunger strike to protest government corruption, which the government recently disbanded with violent force. The hack, which the group claims took just three minutes, displayed the above message on the site. NIC quickly moved to take the page offline, but a cached Google page confirmed the direct hit by Anonymous. The hack comes just days after Anonymous hacked the government database of Iran, exposing private emails from that country. While no data was stolen or exposed from this latest hack in India, Anonymous’ message was clear: the corruption of institutional forces runs against individual freedom.

A statement by Anonymous said, “Over fifty years ago, Indian Freedom Fighters laid down their lives for our freedom. In the end, what was it all for? Today our politicians ride slip-shod over our laws, corruption is rampant. If the brutal way Baba Ramdev’s hunger strike was crushed is anything to go by, it would seem that India is now on its way to becoming an undemocratic ‘democracy’.”
This is something really worth giving a thought, why all of sudden ANONYMUS has to voice for Indian issues, give a thought, you hackers may realize the fact and reason behind it.

In the past, we have witnessed many of our websites being hacked including India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), colleges, NGOs, Indian companies and religious organisations among others by Pakistani Hackers. And, in the recent past, ONGC website too was hacked by them. And now, there are many chances that they would target SAIL (Steel Authority of India) website as it has many vulnerabilities and can be easily hacked.

The unfortunate part is that in spite of being warned by Kaizen India Info – Sec Solutions Pvt. Ltd (A cyber security firm that is working towards making our country free from cyber threats) about the loopholes to SAIL authorities, no necessary actions have been taken so far. Similarly, Kaizen had also informed higher authorities of ONGC about the vulnerabilities in their website but they too did not pay heed to the warning and ultimately landed up getting hacked by Pakistani hackers. Sadly, whenever a website gets hacked, fingers are always pointed towards the hackers but the fact is that the website owners themselves are responsible for not taking proper care and leaving their websites open with all the loopholes inviting hackers to attack.

A tit-for-tat campaign has been in practice by groups on both Indian and Pakistani sides dating back to the late 1990s when tensions over the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir brought the nuclear-armed neighbours to the brink of war.

In 2009, India’s one of the biggest banks Bank of Baroda, a global bank with a network of branches in India, and an international presence in 21 countries was hacked by Pakistani hacker group called Pakbugs.

“Indians place little or no value on the kind of data individuals and organisations in many countries prefer to keep confidential, like passport and bank account details or work contracts,” Cyber Expert Vijay Mukhi said.
"Privacy is a concept not rooted in India culture. I don't think we can change that and I don't think it's going to change in my lifetime," he added.
"The government doesn't care" about protecting information online. Corporates for some reason just don't want to spend the money. They don't think it happens often. Web security is a low priority," he said.

Very recently, the website of Sony BMG has been hacked and an anonymous poster has uploaded a user database to pastebin.com, including the usernames, real names and email addresses of users registered on SonyMusic.gr. This kind of company websites getting hacked not only affects the company itself but also the customers. Interestingly, many of the companies are insured and thus they get their losses recovered leaving the customers to suffer.

The question that arises is who will take action against these attacks? Government has been maintaining silence even though one after the other their websites are been attacked and details are been leaked or deleted. Is our government so weak? Now, after CBI, ONGC, Bank of Baroda and many other official websites, SAIL can be the next target. Hope that the SAIL authorities are listening and would take necessary steps towards protecting their website

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This post is dedicated to Indian l33t lamers & legends like them, who love to do moral policing, blot on my nation .....

Face book has one of the biggest community of hacker across the country, In India the term hacking and intentions are yet not very much clear and specific. Indian hackers lack unity and integrity. Hackers are divided in teams and small groups. 40 percent hackers are in the industry of producing hacker, I mean they are having their own seminars, classes, and certified courses. There are many hackers lured in unethical activities.

Certified Ethical Hacker’s certificates are bought and purchased. There is no control over these examinations and their authenticity is at stake. Many of them are working with IT sectors, and some of them totally dedicated to research, yet keeping there one foot in underground activities. Indian hackers are blessed with potentials, skills and self learning abilities. Only India has an average of skilled hackers between the age group of 14 to 17. At the age of 16 some of them even write their exploits, codes and scripts. These particular groups of hackers are form middle class or upper middle class families, they lack papers. They don’t have certificates to show but their skill can slam the claims of so called demigods of hacking community.

China, Korean and Us government already announced about their own cyber army, they train number of hackers at government expenses. Israeli and Africans hackers are known for their dedication and eccentric approach towards the cause. Each country globally has one or other national issue and the hackers of that particular country and dedicated to that cause and nation. They don’t harm their own country; they won’t become watch dogs for their own country. They are the loyal patriots and guards of their cyber space. Indian hackers lack patriotism, there are some small time group of hacker claims to be patriotic hacking community, but their patriotism is limited to the defacement of Pakistanis websites. They just deface randomly and leave their message for Pakistan and its hackers. Most of the time these messages are nasty and not worth reading. If this young generation of hackers given an opportunity and freedom I am sure the cyber space may come under secure zone.

Chennai, Bangalore ,Bombay ,Pune and Delhi are the den of hackers. Either they are working with private firms, or seeking education. Day time they are committed to their routine but at night they become cyber terrorists. The ethics are vanished, the focus is lost, and some of the groups even became scavengers and attacking Indian sites to set personal scores. They are attacking private firms and individuals for revenge, fame and publicity. Neither they are loyal to security industry not to hacking passion. This is the biggest dilemma of Indian hackers.

In the recent past few groups are stuck in identity crises, few old times group got in rivalry and others lost in the glory of other side. Youth of this country learning hacking through open source and Google, they use available exploits to hack their own country’s resources and properties; there are hundreds of forums and news bulletins and blogs, providing open tools, scripts and exploits. All this material is most of the time used on Indian servers. It’s high time we need to declare theses forums and communities as anti-national, they are traitors and threat to our cyber space. Laws are stringent but hardly applied; there is no watch over such practices. Cyber cell across the country lacks latest updates. The staff is old and every day updates are beyond their reach. Other than the power of law and order they possess no such extra ordinary skills to nail down such open sources.

There are number of good hackers working in call centers, some in cyber cafés and some in low profile organization, and many land up becoming instructor in Hacking classes. If we go by statistics India produces on an average thousands of hackers in the period of three months. If you go by annual production then I can say it will reach in hundred thousand. Appin, Inobuzz, tech defense, whagela’s and fadia’s are lured in this industry of producing hackers, the irony is that these hackers have no jobs, opportunities and end of the day India still has challenge over cyber security issues.

Instead of crying over issues we thought of resolving problems in our capacity by providing jobs to, skillful hackers lacking papers, gave them a publication Hacker5 as mouth piece, unfortunately our concern was misunderstood and we became victim of illicit hackers and their traits. At the end I am proud to say this magazine is reaching in remote areas, where two hours electricity is a biggest challenge. These students have no open source to acquire knowledge. There are n numbers of young students, got platform to reach readers. Complimentary copies of Hacker5 reach 17 such villages where education and resource is biggest challenge. All over Mumbai library its reaches free. There are so many students request us for free copy, because they can’t afford it. I think minimum 200 hackers in this community will agree to what I said.

We have number of TV channels, news available on websites, but still crave for print (news paper). Just because open source of learning is available for those who can avail these services we cannot neglect 40% that Indian population still underprivileged for electricity, education, and finance. If you have hundred rupees to waste then you are not my buyer. If you invest hundred rupees to make this cause reach in remote places they you are my buyer.

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