Dr Arvind Gupta’s Article on Cyber Security Published in The New Indian Express
April 17, 2013
Director General, IDSA, Dr Arvind Gupta’s article on Cyber Security, titled, ‘Take cyber attacks seriously’ was published in The New Indian Express on April 17, 2013.
Excerpt
Cyber space is increasingly being misused. The sheer scale of cyber attacks is breathtaking. Sensitive commercial information including intellectual property rights related information has been stolen, privacy of millions of individuals has been compromised, credit card frauds have been perpetrated, and sensitive nuclear and military installations have been targeted successfully. New kinds of “cyber weapons” are being developed. Stuxnet, Duqu, Flame and Wiper are some of the exotic names given to computer viruses which have the capability of interfering with cyber based installations and carrying out cyber espionage and surveillance.
