Federal Investigation Means (Fia) Inwards Activity Against Cyber Criminals !

As the cyber state of war betwixt Pakistani together with Indian hackers escalates, a grouping calling itself Indian Cyber Army (ICA) has gained access to scripts of to a greater extent than than 375 websites belonging to the government, high-level organisations together with of import personalities inwards Pakistan.

Hackers from both sides kicking the bucket along to target of import populace together with individual websites. Last week, a grouping calling itself Pak Cyber Army (PCA) hacked merely about 300 Indian websites spell the ICA issued a alert that it could hack some other 375 Pakistani websites till Dec 31, 2010.


The regime is serious most these threats together with a special jail mobile telephone nether the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), the National Response Centre for Cyber Crimes (NR3C) has been established to monitor Pakistani websites, especially the government’s, said Inam Ghani, Project Director NR3C. The cyber criminal offence fly of FIA has already recovered 36 hacked websites, he added.

To enforce preventive measures together with avert attacks on populace websites, a touchstone operating physical care for specifying parameters for hosting has been prepared together with volition hold upwards issued to all regime institutions soon, said Ghani.

According to initial investigations, a suspect arrested past times the FIA on charges of hacking the personal website of President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari in early on December, established links alongside Indian hackers, leading to the electrical flow episode of a cyber state of war betwixt the 2 countries.

The FIA is on board alongside the ministries of interior together with data technology, together with Islamic Republic of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to re-implement the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance (Peco) through a parliamentary bill. The ordinance, enacted past times the president, lapsed terminal twelvemonth alongside the implementation of the 18th amendment.

Major cyber criminal offence cases, including those involving Khanani together with Kalia International together with Zarco Exchange, were registered nether Peco.
Majority of Pakistani websites are hosted on insecure servers, alongside diverse websites hosted on a unmarried server, informed Munawar Chaudhry, programming goodness at the University of Education, Lahore. These include the websites of the National Assembly, the Senate, the Supreme Court, provincial assemblies, high courts together with other populace departments. Ironically, the website of NR3C is too hosted on an insecure server.
The servers are non physically introduce inwards Pakistan, posing a major safety loophole that tin flame hold upwards exploited past times hackers.

Governmental institutions’ websites institutions should hold upwards hosted on secure together with dedicated servers that are physically introduce inwards Pakistan/India, to preclude together with thwart hereafter cyber attacks. Meanwhile, strongly urged the regime to tabular array the Peco neb inwards the parliament.

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