The Union Government of India is planning to modify the Information Technology Act by incorporating provisions to treat as evidence in a court of law, cyber forensics devices and tools used for cracking cyber crimes.
NIGCOMSAT Limited, the company incharge of Nigeria’s communication satellite announced that the company will provide Internet facilities over 400 Community Tele-Centres (CTC) nationwide. The project is meant to provide affordable access Internet, multimedia and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) in remote and unserved urban areas.
Indian army has decided to boost the cyber security of its information networks down to division levels. Other than creating cyber security organsations to guard against cyber warfare and data thefts, army top brass has also underlined the urgent need for periodic cyber security audits by the Army Cyber Security Establishment (ACSE).
India is silently suffering from cyber warfare. China has mounted daily attacks on Indian computer networks both government and private. These attacks are not like hacking or phishing; they are more sophisticated and there is a complete method behind cyber war fare.
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Governing cyberspace by just applying old solutions to new problems will not help us in providing the public goods required for sustaining elementary conditions of local good life. If local governance and policing are to remain meaningful activities, effectively pacifying local environments, new ventures in systems thinking are now required.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the completion of Cyber Storm a full-scale government-led cyber security exercise to examine response, coordination and recovery mechanisms to a simulated cyber-event within international, federal, state and local governments, in conjunction with the private sector.
The AP State Wide Area Network (APSWAN), Andhra Pradesh Government’s e-Governance project in India was attacked by hackers in an abortive attempt to steal information.
There are seven million PCs in a country of one billion Internet cafe owners in India’s commercial and entertainment capital, Bombay, are angry at plans to regulate the city’s cyber centres. They object to plans which would force them to keep records of people using their internet facilities.
