******Defence Research and Development Organisation ready to take on China.******* With complaints of Chinese companies installing malicious malware and virus in devices sold to public sector companies and defence establishments in India, the Union government has ordered Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to develop indigenous IT hardware, which would soon replace Chinese products. Former secretary, department of defence R&D, director-general DRDO and scientific advisor to defence minister V. K. Saraswat in an informal chat with DC raised his deep concern about the use of information technology in every discipline, including, banking, reservation, defence, air transportation, sea logistics and agriculture in India. “If IT is compromised then entire country can be crippled. You need not wage a war across the border now,” he said. Pointing out that India imports IT hardware, including small cellphones and computer routers from China, Saraswat said these hardware comes with malware, Trojan horses or any spoofing device which could be triggered remotely. “These devices can extract data from your computer and you might not know that it had happened. There has been many cases where data from many Indian government agencies had gone this way,” he added. In an attempt to take on cyber attack by the Chinese, a committee with national security advisor as its head asked DRDO to develop indigenous hardware which would replace the Chinese equipment. “DRDO has already started to design and develop these items under the cyber security programme. We have also embarked on a major mission to reduce dumping of electronic goods from China in a big way, as beyond a certain level you (China) cannot dump in a particular nation,” he added. Source: DC
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:44:10 +0000
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