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PostSubject: Cyberwars: India to greenlight state-sponsored cyber attacks   Cyberwars: India to greenlight state-sponsored cyber attacks Icon_minitimeWed Jun 13, 2012 1:43 am

The Indian government is stepping up its cyber security capabilities with plans to protect critical national infrastructure from a Stuxnet-like attack and to authorise two agencies to carry out state-sponsored attacks if necessary.

Sources told the Times of India that the government’s National Security Council, headed by prime minister Manmohan Singh, is currently finalising plans which would give the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) the power to carry out unspecified offensive operations.

India is also hoping to co-ordinate its defensive capabilities better, in the event of an attack which could debilitate its critical infrastructure.

The country was reportedly hit by Stuxnet, although it doesn’t appear to have caused any serious damage and was unlikely to have been a deliberately targeted attack.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/11/india_state_sponsored_attacks/
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