Lack of cyber security professionals may cost big for India as the IT hub.
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Chennai: Even as India proclaims itself to be the hub of information technology, it has not been able to take on cyber attacks from haÂckers across the world. This is due to lack of cyber security professionals.
“India is a country where youngsters are encouraged to take up jobs of application programming and not system programming, which is essential to equip one’s own desktop, one’s organization and his or her country, against cyber attacks,” noted an expert in cyber security on the event of World Computer SeÂcÂurity Day which falls on Friday.
Government itself has admitted that there are less that 1,000 people in the country who are experts in system side programming while the demand is for around 5 lakh professionals, noted Dr B Muthukumaran, cyber crime consultant for the Tamil Nadu police.
“Policing the cyber world may not be a job which a regular policeman can execute and calls for special cyber investigative skills and exposure to associated cyber laws. There should be more technically sound professionals in the force who can understand and handle cases,” noted another expert who has assisted intelligence agencies in cyber crime cases.
Indian youth focus more on application software and refuse to be trained in system side development becaÂuse the easily available job segment is in application development jobs in the information technology world. However in countries like China, Germany and US, youngsters are being trained to focus on system side programming, thus helping those countries to develop their defences in the cyber world, noted Dr MuthuÂkumÂaran, who is also DGM, Institute of TecÂhnology Management & Research, Chennai.
The recently annoÂuÂnced information security policy has opened up many entrepreneurial opportunities for youngsters trained in system side programming. The future world calls for specialization and it is difficult to survive without cyber security guards.
Next: Hackers’ group remains untraced
Next: Hackers’ group remains untraced
Chennai: Pakistan Haxors Crew (PHC), the group which recently hacked several Indian websites, including the ruling AIADMK’s official portal and a priÂvate television chÂaÂÂnnel, ridiculed the arrest of a techie frÂom Bengaluru for the hacking that they had commÂittÂed.
Cyber sleuths in Chennai remain clueless about the whereabouts of the digital criminals who continue to provide a daily update on their FB page.
An analysis of the PHC’s Facebook page reveals that the hackers monitored newspaper articles and television reports from Tamil Nadu about hacking after which they unleashed their attack on the media that reported it.
The private Tamil teleÂvision channel aired a 15-minute capsule on November 15 about cyber security and how PHC hacked AIADMK’s website. Interestingly, it defÂaced the television channel’s website the saÂme day due to which the channel’s website continues to be crippled even after several attempts to resolve the issue.
The hackers continued their attack on another television chÂaÂnnel as they too carried the news abÂout AIADMK’s website getting hacÂked.
Surprisingly, PHC’s Facebook page had web links to news items about their attack on the AIADMK’s website and the mirror site of the media’s website after it was attacked.
According to sourÂces in the hackers’ circle, the group is capÂable of pulling doÂwn any website wiÂth sophisticated tools as most Indian weÂbsites lack proper security.
“Nobody knows whÂether PHC will allow these websites to fuÂnction even if they are restored as they miÂght hit at them agÂain. They could also plan more such attaÂcks in the future as we don’t know anythÂing about their motÂive or their modus opÂerandi,” the souÂrces said.
( Source : dc )
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