Government to launch 19 e-governance schemes for Digital India initiative.

Giving more teeth to the conduct of foreign policy, MEA will launch 19 e-governance schemes over the next few months keeping with PM Modi's Digital India initiative to digitise several of its activities including effective cyber security mechanisms, the database for foreign diplomats in Delhi and create the possible database for all non-resident Indians.



MEA 's goal is to launch 19 e-governance initiatives by the next financial year and efforts are being made on a war-footing, persons familiar with the developments told ET. Among the key initiatives will be a stronger cyber security mechanism for ministry websites.

Recently a 17-year-old hacker exposed flaws in Indian diplomatic missions' websites that allowed intruders to gain access to non-public information. The hacker used an identity -Kaputsky.

Kaputsky has broken into websites of Indian diplomatic missions in eight countries. He had posted on a website some personal information of 418 people registered with Indian Consulate in New York,that he claimed he got by intruding into its website.

In addition to the New York consulate, Kaputsky had allegedly broken into websites of Indian diplomatic missions in South Africa, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Italy, Switzerland and Romania and put some information he had taken from there on pastebin.com, which is open for public posting of infor mation.Kaputsky, who said he is a student in Tokyo, claimed, "It took me only three seconds to gain access to their database."

The personal information from the New York Consulate General that was posted on pastebin.com was later removed.

Source:- Gadgetsnow.com