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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 27: Fighting insurgency in the real world, armed forces are now faced with a new challenge in the virtual world.Already grappled with Chinese intrusions in Ladakh, the problem of infiltration on Kashmir and Jammu borders and gunbattles with militants in treacherous J&K mountains, armed forces are now faced with the online espionage assaults from across the Line of Actual Control.
In a recent report, a group of Canadian and American cyber-security researchers held that China-based online espionage gangs had accessed classified documents from several Indian defence and security establishments.
Top army sources said there had been an abrupt increase in the incidents of online espionage.
The computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of army had in the recent past alerted all military formations and installations in the national capital and some other parts of the country, including J&K, to guard against the cyber attacks.
Sources said government organisations, famous brands and corporate groups were likely to be the targets of these attacks. Effective measures were taken to protect networks against data-thefts, the sources added.
Sources said so much was the effect of cyber attacks that several military establishments, including the Defence Services Staff College at Wellington, had stopped using computers connected directly to internet modems as a precaution.Sources said as China had made cyber-warfare one of its topmost military priorities, there was an emergent need for India to sharpen their own cyber-warfare skills.
Sources said India had yet not taken with China the issue of hacking into military secrets from a computer based in China.
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