[iwar] IndiaTimes story: Indo-Pak war raging in cyberspace

From: Ravi V Prasad (r_v_p@yahoo.com)
Date: 2002-01-03 08:54:58


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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 08:54:58 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [iwar] IndiaTimes story: Indo-Pak war raging in cyberspace
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Interesting story though he wrongly identifies milworm
as a Pakistani group whereas it is an anti-nuclear
group. Rest of the story is all correct.

Ravi V Prasad

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Indo-Pak war raging in cyberspace 

Read the full story at

http://news.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=380255744

 
SIDDHARTH SRIVASTAVA

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 
 
EW DELHI: Pakistani hackers have made several attempts
to hack into Indian sites--especially those containing
data on sensitive information relating to nuclear test
management--to access sensitive information related to
the country's security, said sources in the
Intelligence Bureau.

The sites targetted include those of Indira Gandhi
Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), the Nuclear
Science Centre (NSC) and the Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre (BARC). 

Although these three sites have been repeatedly hacked
in the past, according to IB officials, the recent
attempts were aimed at accessing crucial data secured
under severely firewalled servers. 

"It is quite apparent that the new breed of hackers
are much more equipped and trained," say sources in
the IB. Officials also say that there could have been
at least a couple of successful attempts to break the
codes of the sites. 

"There have been as many as seven attempts to hack
into the BARC data since the attack on Indian
Parliament on December 13. We are also on the lookout
for spy programs that might have been installed," says
an official.

The IB has already written to the defence and the home
ministry about the issue. The two ministries have, in
turn, sought the help of cyber security firms to shore
up the sites. 

The hackers, according to officials, may be on the
payroll of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence. 

There has been a history of infiltration into Indian
sites with sensitive information by Pakistani hackers.
The first infiltration into BARC was in 1998, when it
was hacked by three members of Milworm, a
Pakistan-based hacker group. Ever since, BARC servers
have been favourite targets of Pakistani hackers. 

"This year alone, at least one spy program has been
detected in a BARC mail server," says an official. 

The first intrusion into IGCAR was reported in January
last year when G-Force, a Pakistani hacker group,
defaced its main server. Subsequently, other servers
in IGCAR have been repeatedly hacked by G-Force. 

Indian intelligence officials have identified one
hacker as Rsnake, who is said to have copied the
master database from IGCAR and provided some data to
Pakistani intelligence as proof of his access. 

The ISI, in turn, has realised the importance of
hackers after BARC was hacked in 1998. The first
Pakistani hacker group-Pakistani Hackers Club-was
formed by two 'hacktivists' who used the pseudonyms
DoctorNuker and Mr Sweet. DoctorNuker took to hacking
when he was a computer science student at Karachi
University. Along with fellow hacker Dizasta (real
name: Fahad Shamshek Khan), he started hacking into
critical Indian and US servers. 

DoctorNuker, say IB officials, was the first hacker
whose skills were recognised by the ISI and under the
latter's directives, focused on critical Indian
government servers (especially those relating to
nuclear and atomic establishments). 

But sources say the most active Pakistani hacker in
the recent past has been a person impersonating as
Rsnake, who started hacking from the Netherlands where
he was working with a group of portals. Inspired by
DoctorNuker, he started the hacker group G-Force from
Holland. 

The ISI has now got him to Pakistan to coordinate
other hackers targeting Indian websites, claim IB
officials. 
 
...............

Read the full story at

http://news.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=380255744



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