The recent cyber attacks on high-profile Twitter users in the last two weeks have sent shock-waves among the social media community and raised questions about India’s cyber security.
The same has put spotlight on Legion, the hacker group behind all the mischief, whose eyes are now set on releasing a big data dump of mails from sansad.nic.in.
Allaying people’s concerns, Union minister of electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad, said that he has ordered a review of the “entire IT infrastructure” of India and the need of the hour is “hardening” the security wall.
The IT Ministry has now launched a war against such hacking attack and announced a series of steps to strengthen cyber security, reported Economic Times:
- An Audit of the financial sector with the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI).
- The financial industry including payment and wallet firms has been asked to immediately report any hacking incident.
- The ministry has also asked Twitter to reinforce their security systems and report every misdoing to Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In)
- A separate digital payments division under CERT-In has been set up to monitor and strengthen the digital payment infrastructure 24×7.
- The government is also working on reviewing the IT Act 2000 in the wake of the ongoing digital payment drive
- Two major initiatives to curb cyber crime – the BotNet Centre and the National Cyber Coordination Centre will also be expedited and are expected to come up before the end of this financial year.