Cyber attacks on CWG website: India suspects China

[challenger]

Huge Cyber attacks on CWG official website; India suspects China

As the whole of India is still engaged relaxing with a huge sigh of relief after the successful and peaceful conduct of recently concluded Commonwealth Games, the government has revealed that all didn't go well with the event.

In a recent revelation, the government has announced that the official website for Commonwealth games suffered severe Cyber attacks with in just two hours of the initiation of opening ceremony.

According to sources, the government has suspected China for the Cyber encroachment and ordered to set up an?investigative cell to probe the whole matter.

Earlier, reports came of regarding malfunctioning of the website during the games but it was considered as the normal exhaustion related to increased web traffic. People didn’t get proper access to the information about the sports events during the entire extravaganza. Now, the government has lifted the curtain?to know the reason?behind the failure.

It is notable that this is not the sole attempt of Cyber infringement from China as few months back it was labeled with blames of trespassing in the confidential defense matters of India. China at that time hacked official websites of Indian Defense department and Finance Ministry.

More details will be added to the information after the complete revelations from the government. Meanwhile, the government has announced of establishing an investigative cell to go ahead with the probe in the matter.

 

[challenger]

Here is TOI giving a detailed report on it.

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'China tried to hack CWG website'

 

[CONNAN]

dude TOI is one of the NOOBEST PATHETIC NEWS AGENCY just ignore it

 

[challenger]

dude TOI is one of the NOOBEST PATHETIC NEWS AGENCY just ignore it

I wish I could do so.



CWG website was crashed 'deliberately' - India News - IBNLive

New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games (CWG) website, which got more than seven million visitors everyday, buckled not because of technical glitches but a deliberate mischief, sources said.

Few weeks ago, the Commonwealth Games website came under cyber attack which was possibly routed from China.

Sources tell CNN-IBN that within two hours of the Games opening ceremony, the website faced massive cyber attacks, possibly from China. India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERTIN) had to set up a special cyber control room at the games village. But the cyber attacks continued till the end of Games.

The servers which were connected to ticket sales, event timings, and accreditation for authorized personnel and barriers controlling entry and exit into the games Village, all came under attack. The website became unusually slow and did not display correct timings for different events.

 

[riju78]

oh man i watched the video report by times now in TOI site...pathetic....these silly reporters and papers should be banned forever.... i wonder how they call themselves journalists... TOI standard is utter rubbish...
apologies to all chinese friends

our media should stop blaming everything on china and australia...its like a new fashion these days

 

[StingRoy]

@challenger?... What are you trying to say here ... that Chinese hackers did attack the CWG site or you want to prove otherwise?
Whatever it may be, the trace logs will reveal it in a few days. It is called Indian news sensationalization

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

dude TOI is one of the NOOBEST PATHETIC NEWS AGENCY just ignore it

glad you realize it

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

... TOI standard is utter rubbish...
apologies to all chinese friends

Don't worry about it.

I have a mental list of what news sources are reliable and which ones are not. I don't take them seriously if they are known to be sensationalist.

In the US, Fox News is biased, while CNN/WSJ is more neutral. In the UK, the Daily Mail is biased, while the Financial Times and BBC are more neutral.

In India, the ToI is biased... while The Hindu is more neutral.

In Hong Kong, the Apple Daily is biased, while South China Morning Post is more neutral. In the mainland, I find Xinhua and the People's Daily to be quite neutral.

 

[challenger]

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There are non TOI (let) indian media links posted above.

 

[DesiGuy]

glad you realize it

you aren't anymore "think Tank"????

What happened??

 

[Kinetic]

you aren't anymore "think Tank"????

What happened??

Me too????

 

[DesiGuy]

Me too????

what do you mean??

you were never a "think Tank". thank god.

 

[Kinetic]

what do you mean??

actually i was asking the same question!!!

you were never a "think Tank". thank god.

abu became 'think tank' to 'senior member', so which one is better? lol

BTW abu was the best 'think tank' here in my opinion. i had a good chat with him.

 

[JamesBond]

you aren't anymore "think Tank"????

What happened??

May be the mods started thinking.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

1,000 cyber attacks on Games, most from China

Six cyber networks of the Delhi Commonwealth Games faced at least 1,000 “potential” attacks in the 12 days of the event that concluded last night — that is, more than three attacks every hour.

Roughly three-fourths of these attempts to breach and paralyse the Games networks originated from China, experts in the Cyber Crisis Management Group (CMG), which was monitoring the networks round the clock, told The Indian Express.

A clutch of attacks — between October 3 and October 5 — originated in Pakistan. Some attempts to penetrate CWG circuits were made from Mumbai as well, top sources in the CMG said.

“In all, our systems detected around 5,000 incidents, about 20 per cent of which could be described as potential attacks. Many were ‘denial-of-service’ attacks, which, if successful, would jam entire networks. But none of these attempts succeeded in penetrating even the first of the three layers of cyber security systems that we had installed,” said a member of the CMG.

The CMG, which operated from an out-of-bounds Cyber Command Centre set up on the seventh floor of the Games Organising Committee (OC) headquarters, included cyber experts from the intelligence agencies, Delhi Police and the Government of India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).

The cyber security infrastructure which successfully detected, identified and neutralized the attacks was set up in only two months after Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar authorized the cyber CMG headed by CERT-In chief Gulshan Rai, who was empowered to disable sections of the CWG computer networks in case of a serious cyber attack.

The six networks, including those of Games data, security, venues, Internet services and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), were linked to the Command Centre, which constantly monitored over 3,000 computers, 3,000 CCTVs and 1,800 network switches. A special software detected and mapped all “deviant behaviour” on logs, which were examined by the CMG several times a day.

On October 13, National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon visited the Command Centre and reportedly hailed the cyber security initiative as a huge success. While declining to discuss the specifics of the system, Harsh Kumar, the OC’s head of technology, said, “The success of our system was that officials from all agencies such as the NTRO (National Technical Research Organisation) and IB, as well from vendors like MTNL, ECIL (Electronics Corporation of India Ltd) and TCIL (Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd) worked together as a group.”

Added Anil Chowdhary, the OC’s Adviser, Security, “The cyber security systems used in the CWG are now a model which can be replicated in major national networks, and used for cyber security in critical sectors such as railways, aviation and telecommunications.”