NEW DELHI, Nov 1:
A DRDO website dealing with recruitment of scientists in the premier defence research organisation reported “suspicious activity” on its server and had to be blocked temporarily as a precautionary measure.
However, there was no threat of loss of sensitive information relating to the Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO) since the website did not contain this matter.
DRDO’s Recruitment and Assessment Centre (RAC) has a website rac.Gov.In hosted by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) for disseminating career-related information in the organisation.
“On 30 October 2012, suspicious activity was noticed on the NIC server hosting the website. The NIC, as a precautionary measure, therefore temporarily blocked access to the server hosting the RAC website and restored it next day,” DRDO said in a release today.
It said the website was fully functional and the main public website of DRDO has not been affected in any manner.
“As such, the website does not contain any sensitive information related to the DRDO,” the release said.
In recent times, Indian government websites have come under attacks from foreign hacking groups and the National Security Council (NSC) has recently taken several measures to tackle the menace.
During the Commonwealth Games itself, 8,000 cyber attacks were launched on the ticketing and other important systems functioning there. (PTI)
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