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New Delhi: The Government of India believes that Internet hackers can't stop attacking the country's cyber networks, but the country is all set to tackle such type of threats in future.

Talking to Media on the sidelines of an event in New Delhi, Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju said, "It will be foolishness to think that such cyber attacks will not happen in the future. It is for us to be prepared and take adequate measures...So, on that aspect, India is adequately prepared." 


When Raju was asked to asked to comment on the recent reported attacks on computer networks of the National Security Council and several other top military leaders by Chinese hackers, he said that with the high-level technology available with nations, it is understandable and it is to be expected that nations will try to hack into the secure systems of other nations.

He also said that like China, India has cyber army to tackle with these hacking issues. Regarding the measures taken by government to deal with the hacking attempts, Raju said that counter-measures were in place to deal with such situations and one doesn't have to fear about the preparedness of the nation, reports Economic Times.

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with all due respect to the above article...i juss want to pull out another published on the same date..

which states that : Hackers tap contact list for money

Kolkata: Picture this: your e-mail account has been hacked. You haven’t taken it very seriously, but within minutes, your relatives and friends start receiving e-mails seeking monetary help.
    There have even been instances of relatives abroad dispatching money in good faith to an unknown bank account. In internet crime parlance, this is called identity theft. And this has been a growing trend in recent times.
    Incidentally, some high profile people are being targeted by these swindlers, most of whom are based in Nigeria. So bringing them to book is a difficult proposition.
    Only a few weeks ago, Jawhar Sircar, the union ministry of culture secretary, was victim of such threat. Suddenly some of his relatives and friends started receiving the mails from Sircar’s mail-id that Sircar is in trouble in Russia after losing his belongings. The mail requested them to remit some money to a bank account which he would return after coming back home. But Sircar got alarmed after receiving a call from one of the recipients of the mail.
    Sircar lodged a complaint with the deputy commissioner (detective department) Damayanti Sen. The DD started an investigation. A large number of cyber crime cases like identity theft has prompted city police to initiate a Cyber Crime campaign. “We have got cases where an entire website has been hacked and misused. So we started a major campaign against identity theft offences with an advisory on preventing such crimes,” said Sen.
    According to sleuths, the hackers are choosing their targets carefully, picking on high-profiles people like doctors, professors and people holding important positions. The police probe has revealed that all the victims received e-mail messages, which seemed to be sent from well-known websites or social networking sites.
    Such phishing mails include seemingly authentic logos and other identifying information copied from the legitimate website. The scamsters often place a link that seem to take users to a legitimate website — but was actually the link to scam site. Unsuspecting users who click here, have their accounts hacked into and confidential information stolen.
    Armed with this information, the fraudster then sends emails to those on the contact list seeking money to get out of an emergency during a foreign trip. Police officers said that the only way to stop such crimes is to raise awareness about them among internet users.
    “We are asking people not to reply or follow the instructions of such unsolicited e-mail. Never share personal information online without verifying the authenticity, use a strong password having alpha-numeric characters and change it frequently. If the e-mail ID is hacked, make sure your contacts are informed immediately about this so that they don’t end up getting duped. And report the matter to police immediately,” said Sen.