Pak song sites may be used to hack Indian web- Reports

[Chetan0304]

Pak song sites may be used to hack Indian web


New Delhi After the Mumbai terror strikes, anti-India elements in Pakistan are now planning an attack on Indian computer networks, intelligence agencies have warned.

Already Pakistani hackers are trying out a dry run against Indian networks through popular websites registered there after the Mumbai terror strikes, Home Ministry sources said in New Delhi on Tuesday.

"Every time the relations between the two countries dampen, Pakistanis start attacking Indian computer networks and this has increased after the Mumbai terror attacks," a Home Ministry source said.

Pakistani hackers have created websites such as the songs.pk which are infested with software to hack data from the targeted computers, it said.

"The website songs.pk has over 12 lakh Indian users who are downloading stuff from these websites daily," said a cyber expert in the Ministry.

With these websites being highly popular, it will take only a few minutes for the hackers to take command of over 12 lakh computers in few minutes and the number of such computers can multiply in every minute, sources said.

"Instead of the existing less harmful virus, new ones such as Botnet and Zoombie can be easily released into the Indian computers, which later on replicate and make the entire server vulnerable," the expert said.

"Nowadays new virus and worms are detected while downloading songs from these websites, which could be just a dry run to manage a bigger attack," he said.

Government websites have been highly vulnerable to hacking and they have been intruded many times by the Pakistani hackers.

"Most of the time, these cases are not reported as the server is based in Pakistan and we cannot do anything in this regard," the expert said.

The anti-virus software, too, cannot work in such situation as the virus used in such cyber wars are usually new and the anti-virus software cannot identity and detect it, he said.

"If anti-virus software cannot identify the signature of the virus coming through Internet, it will not detect it and as a result the virus will be downloaded in the computer in spite of such software available in the network," the expert added.


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a online war started ? :rolleyes:

[scion_sid]

You are getting too worked up.

[Leggie]

Wow. New ways to try and hirt each other :P

I agree with Sid, You are getting worked up too much...Besides Songs.pk is a crap website, When you pu their songs on your MP£ Player or PSP, It comes up with 'Downloaded from Songs.pk' rather than the album name, It only displays the song name, Not even the album cover, they put their own logo in the place of it.

Safer to use torrents.

[Bilal91]

or google

[Highlander999]

Originally Posted by scion_sid

You are getting too worked up.

Agreed......

[Pak_cricketer]

Hahahaha, this is.. HILARIOUS.
You've posted this in the wrong forum Cheten.

[King Cricket]

Well, yeah i've heard of such a news. Don't know whether it is true or not though. And besides, Chetan there was no need for creating a new thread to discuss this topic, you could have posted this in the Indo-Pak relations thread.

[Chetan0304]

Hi tom you need just a point to criticize someone

Ok Sorry i too think there's no need of this.

Moderator please close this.Sorry again

[scion_sid]

Originally Posted by Leggie

Wow. New ways to try and hirt each other :P

I agree with Sid, You are getting worked up too much...Besides Songs.pk is a crap website, When you pu their songs on your MP£ Player or PSP, It comes up with 'Downloaded from Songs.pk' rather than the album name, It only displays the song name, Not even the album cover, they put their own logo in the place of it.

Safer to use torrents.

You find torrents safe.

Also you can always edit the Mp3 information. That way it will show your name instead of Songs.Pk