Defence Ministry Website Hacked

A Ukrainian cyber guerrilla warfare group plans to launch digital sabotage attacks against critical Russian infrastructure such as railways and the electricity grid, to strike back at Moscow over its invasion, a hacker team coordinator said.

NIC's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Twitter handle said the Ministry of Defence website hadn't been hacked.

The websites of the defence ministry, home and law ministries crashed this evening around the same time, which raised suspicion that these had been hacked. But a top cyber security official emphatically denied any hacking and blamed the snag on a hardware problem.

Official websites of 10 universities including Aligarh Muslim University, Delhi University and the Indian Institutes of Technology (Delhi) and (Varanasi) were hacked on Tuesday. The hacker group, which identified itself as PHC, or claimed the hacking was in retaliation to attacks on a Pakistan's railway ministry website on Monday, and in solidarity...

The hackers associated with the activist group Anonymous reportedly hit the websites of the premier's office, the defence ministry and the education ministry.

Hackers mainly based in the United States attacked two Chinese military websites, including the Defence Ministry page, an average of 144,000 times a month last year, the ministry said on Thursday.

Chinese websites were, in 2012, hacked on average from overseas 144,000 times a month, of which attacks from the US accounted for 62.9 percent.

China has dismissed reports that Chinese hackers have broken into top secret files of the Indian Defence Ministry and embassies around the world.

The Sri Lanka Army website has been hacked, confirmed the Lanka Defence Ministry calling it LTTE's cyber terrorism.

A Ukrainian cyber guerrilla warfare group plans to launch digital sabotage attacks against critical Russian infrastructure such as railways and the electricity grid, to strike back at Moscow over its invasion, a hacker team coordinator said.

NIC's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Twitter handle said the Ministry of Defence website hadn't been hacked.

The websites of the defence ministry, home and law ministries crashed this evening around the same time, which raised suspicion that these had been hacked. But a top cyber security official emphatically denied any hacking and blamed the snag on a hardware problem.

Official websites of 10 universities including Aligarh Muslim University, Delhi University and the Indian Institutes of Technology (Delhi) and (Varanasi) were hacked on Tuesday. The hacker group, which identified itself as PHC, or claimed the hacking was in retaliation to attacks on a Pakistan's railway ministry website on Monday, and in solidarity...

The hackers associated with the activist group Anonymous reportedly hit the websites of the premier's office, the defence ministry and the education ministry.

Hackers mainly based in the United States attacked two Chinese military websites, including the Defence Ministry page, an average of 144,000 times a month last year, the ministry said on Thursday.

Chinese websites were, in 2012, hacked on average from overseas 144,000 times a month, of which attacks from the US accounted for 62.9 percent.

China has dismissed reports that Chinese hackers have broken into top secret files of the Indian Defence Ministry and embassies around the world.

The Sri Lanka Army website has been hacked, confirmed the Lanka Defence Ministry calling it LTTE's cyber terrorism.