A surprising report has surfaced the tech terrain. As per the latest report, a total number of over 14,000 websites have been hacked by cyber criminals till October this year. If reports are to be believed, there is an increase of nearly 57 per cent from 2009’s value.
It is reportedly said that the number of websites hacked in 2009 were 9,180, while the number grew to 14,232 in 2011. To the utter amazement of reader’s, the number has already reached to 14,300-mark till first 10 months of this year.
Taking into consideration the increasing number of website hack, Indian Government is also taking some initiatives. Indian Government has conducted six cyber security mock drills since November 2009 to check hacking and cyber crimes.
Kapil Sibal, Minister of Communications and IT has recently said in parliament, “Ministries and departments have been advised to carry out their IT system audit regularly to ensure robustness of their systems”.
It is worth noticing here that a total of 294 Indian Government websites were hacked in the January-October 2012 period.
Further, Sibal stated that according to National Crimes Record Bureau (NCRB) a total of 696, 1,322 and 2,213 cyber crime cases were registered under the IT Act and cyber crime related IPC sections in 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively.
