400 Indian websites came under attack in Dec

NEW DELHI: Over 400 Indian websites came under attack by hacker groups during December 2006, compared to 340 sites that were defaced during the previous month.

This takes the total number websites that were defaced during the full year (2006) to about 5,200, according Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) data. About 37 security incidents were reported to CERT-In from various national and international agencies in December 2006.

“Besides the 67% phishing incidents that were reported in this month, 22% unauthorised scanning incidents and 11% incidents related to virus/worm under the malicious code category were also reported.

Of the total number of sites that were hacked and defaced, an overwhelming majority were in the .com domain (303 incidents), while 54 incidents occurred within the .in domain.

As many as 47 defacement incidents were recorded in the .org domain while the .net and .info domains accounted for 18 and eight incidents, respectively.