Indian Foreign Ministry hit by spyware problem
The computers of Indian External Affairs Ministry have been hit by cybersecurity nightmare at a time when the Ministry is heavily engaged in dealing with diplomacy in post? Mumbai strikes situation.
“The Indian Express” while quoting the Ministry sources said that “several” of its over 600 computers have been infected by “spyware,” a programme that surreptitiously gets installed on a computer to track or take control of the userÆs actions.
According to preliminary investigation, the computers affected include the computers in the Ministry’s Pakistan section and in the offices of senior Secretaries and Joint Secretaries. he daily said each time an email would be sent from an ôinfectedö computer, a copy of it would automatically go to another email ID.
