Thread: Cyber Wars Between Pakistan and India

We all are aware of the wars India and Pakistan have fought and the resulted destruction especially precious human lives. In the current information age, some battles are not only fought with guns and tanks but also through media, internet and pen. Since the advent of Information Technology
among the masses of South Asia in mid 1990s, the pace of cyber wars between Pakistan and India have also been increased.

Cyberwars between the two countries started in May 1998, when India conducted its nuclear tests. Soon after India officially announced the test, a group of Pakistan-based hackers called milw0rm broke into the Bhabha Atomic Research Center web site and posted anti-India and anti-nuclear messages. The cyberwars usually have been limited to defacements of each others' sites. Defacement is a low level damage, in which only the home page
of a site is replaced with hacker's own page, usually with some message for the victim. Such defacements started in May 1998 and continued during Kargil War in 1999 and then during that era when the tension between India and Pakistan was at its peak from Dec 2001 to 2002. Therefore, the period between 1999 to 2002 was very crucial, when the troops were busy across the LOC exchanging gunshots and the hackers busy in defacing sites of each others.

According to attrition.org, a web site that tracks computer security related developments on the Internet, show that attacks on Indian websites increased from 4 in 1999 to 72 in 2000 where as the Pakistani websites were hacked 7 times in 1999 and 18 times in 2000. During the first half of 2001, 150 Indian websites were defaced.

Neither India nor Pak seem to have a cyber army as far as I know. All these are individuals or official groups. Though cyber war exist & some time it is independent of political climate also.

Originally Posted by Luke Skywalker

Neither India nor Pak seem to have a cyber army as far as I know. All these are individuals or official groups. Though cyber war exist & some time it is independent of political climate also.

do you live in Pakistan???

Its always their Govt. who makes them learn doing such things, otherwise who funds them???

and about India we know how much are strict internet laws here, if someone is caught doing a cyber crime, he is dealt.. but what about Pakistan???do you think that someone doing anything for the so called "Jihad against India" will be dealt there??