Another govt website hacked, this time it's target Goa

WEB CONCERNS: It's the latest incident in the string of govt websites being hacked this year.

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Goa: Two wolves, a crescent moon and a star, and words proudly proclaiming that Huseyingazi Turkish Republican Hacker is the man behind this defacement.

That's what greeted people who logged on to Goa government's public information website on Saturday.

The hacker spews venom against the US calling them terrorists and peppered the site with pictures of so called matyrs. The defacement has already spurred the government into action.

“The government is lodging FIR in connection with this case. We will take help of the best experts to get to the origin of this. This hacking seems to be sending some terror messages and so is of serious nature. We are not taking it lightly,” said Ujjwal Mishra, DIG, Goa Police.

But the incident is the latest in a string of defacements. According to a government watchdog:

- 3,000 Indian websites have been hacked this year

- 143 websites were hacked in October alone

- In September, Gmail accounts of key government officials were tampered with.

- Passwords and login names of the National Defense Academy and key Indian embassies were splashed by a hacker on a website.

And it isn't just these public acts of internet aggression, but fraudulent emails that steal data from computers, that's putting the government on the back foot.

“Such groups generally target Government and Corporate websites as these websites are visited by many people. The time has come for all of us make our websites hacker proof as such incidents are on the rise,” said software expert Sangeeta Naik.

While such incidents generally occur around national holidays, this year, the sustained onslaught against the Indian presence in Cyberspace has security agencies worried.

(With inputs from Jaimon Joseph)