Cyber crime is on the rise with over 2344 Indian websites have been
broken into by cyber thieves in the first five months of this year
as compared to 5200 that were defaced during the entire year 2006.

The period between, January 1 to May 15 this year witnessed 2344
breach of cyber security while in July, the figure was 38, a report
of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said.

Phishers or hackers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive
information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by

33 departments in UP launch websites
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Posted at Saturday, 01 September 2007 17:09 IST
Lucknow, Sept 1: To promote e-governance and help public get
information on-line, the Uttar Pradesh government today launched
websites for 33 departments.

Besides the new websites, 13 other existing websites, refurbished by
National Informatics Centre (NIC), were also inaugurated by the chief
secretary Prashant Kumar Misra, principal secretary Information
Technology V.N. Garg told reporters.