India & Britain Enhancing Cooperation in Cyber Security to Reduce Cybercrime

India & Britain Enhancing Cooperation in Cyber Security to Reduce Cybercrime

Just a week ago on the sidelines of 3rd Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit, Telecom and IT Minister of India, Kapil Sibal said the Indian Government will invest $200 million in coming 4 years, in order to strengthen their cyber security infrastructure. Now another move has been taken by Indian Govt where India and the United Kingdom have decided to enhance cooperation for reduction of the risk of threats from cyberspace to international security and strengthen bilateral cooperation to tackle cyber crime. At a joint press conference with External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, British Foreign Secretary William Hague supported India’s bid for membership in four export control regimes. Britain, Mr. Hague said, also looked “forward to the time when India will have a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.” The two nations also finalized strategies on collaborating on building skills and capacities to tackle threats from cyberspace and to use ICT (information and communication technologies) for the objective of economic and social development. They also held discussions on using existing cooperation between universities and business communities to develop synergy in research and development on cyber issues.

Besides the cyber issues, both sides discussed bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual interest.

Henceforth, India and the UK would conduct their Cyber Dialogue on a bi-annual basis to achieve these objectives, said an official release issued by Indian External Affairs Ministry. 

While talking about India-Bratain cooperation in Cyber Security, we would also like to remind you that in 2011, a Cyber Shield deal Between India & US was made. Also in this year India and Israel have agreed to launch a long-term joint program worth USD 10 million annually to facilitate research on Cyber-Security.

-Source (The Hindu)

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Indian Govt Investing $200 Million in Next 4 Years to Strengthen Cyber Security Infrastructure

Indian Govt Investing $200 Million in Next 4 Years to Strengthen Cyber Security Infrastructure

More cyber awareness and more emphasis on cyber security, now a days this line has almost became an agenda for Indian government. Few months ago the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh himself confirmed that from now on wards India will pay as much attention as possible to make the cyber fence digitally safe and secured. So the govt is working on a robust cyber security structure. That cyber awareness program followed by another deceleration came from Indian ministry. Where the government said that they will invest around USD 200 million in next four years to strengthen their cyber security infrastructure. On sidelines of 3rd Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit, Telecom and IT Minister of India Kapil Sibal said “We have 1.2 billion people and will be largest in terms of population country in the world in years to come. This (cyber crime) affect us perhaps much more than any other country in the world,” 

The Minister added that priority for India at present is to protect its infrastructure like nuclear, aviation, banking infrastructure, among others. “I presume multi-dimensional and multi-sectoral infrastructure will be established in different area. In the Department of Electronics and IT (DEITy) itself we must have investment of USD 200 million in next four years to create necessary infrastructure. We are working on that,” DEITy Secretary J Satyanarayana said.

Sibal said global community must come together to resolve cyber security issues. Citing reports, the Minister said that threats to Cyberspace have increased dramatically in the past years affecting 431 million adult globally or 14 adults victims every second or one million cybercrime victims every day. The Minister said no nation can fight cybercrime or secure its cyberspace in isolation and called for urgent need to work on agreements on international standards. The Minister said that there is need to jointly work on devising standardised and coordinated response strategies along with comprehensive cyber security strategy. “Among this, it very important to build awareness among users for responsive use of cyber space,” he said. The Minister extended India’s support to global community in addressing cyber security challenge.

-Source (eGov)

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DRDO, National Innovation Council, RAC & PM Adviser's Websites Hacked By Algerian Hackers

DRDO, National Innovation Council, RAC & PM Adviser's Websites Hacked By Algerian Hackers

Couple of high profile Indian Government websites faced cyber attack. Where hackers from Algeria targeted the official website of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) & Sam Pitroda, advisor to Prime Minister on Information Technology. According to Govt sources the above two website came under massive cyber attacks on last Wednesday night, Even that attack lead them to shutdown their normal service for certain time. Hackers group calling them selves 'SanFour25' & 'Algerian Hackers' took responsibility of the hack. On the other hand the website of National Innovation Council, along with the Recruitment and Assessment Centre (RAC) was hacked a day before he was to organize a two day global innovation conference. Here also the hacker has been identified as SanFour25. DRDO website was down for nine long hours after the hack. Later all those sites came back online as usual. "After checking the websites, these were restored," a source said, adding that the information contained by these websites is already in the public domain. "There are no secrets on these websites," they stressed.

“On 30 October 2012, suspicious activity was noticed on the National Informatics Server hosting the website. The NIC, as a precautionary measure, therefore temporarily blocked access to the server hosting the RAC website and restored it next day," DRDO said in a release on Thursday. 

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