ADVERTISEMENT
Thursday, August 18th 2022
Today's Paper
The Kashmir Monitor
  • Login
₹ Contribute
No Result
View All Result
  • LatestLive
  • News
  • Kashmir
  • India
  • World
  • Politics
  • Editorial
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Education
  • Health
  • Tech-Film
  • Auto
  • Crypto
  • Travel
The Kashmir Monitor
  • LatestLive
  • News
  • Kashmir
  • India
  • World
  • Politics
  • Editorial
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Education
  • Health
  • Tech-Film
  • Auto
  • Crypto
  • Travel
The Kashmir Monitor
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Most govt websites in JK not secured

Bisma Bhat by Bisma Bhat
Aug. 16, 2018 Updated 3:55 am. IST
A A
gg

Srinagar, Aug 15: Most government departments’ official websites in Jammu and Kashmir are prone to hacking.

ADVERTISEMENT

Open the website of any department and you would find “not secure”, written at the top left of its URL bar, suggesting that the site lacks Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

Without SSL, anybody can hack the site and use or edit the information.

A Junior Engineer at Sitronic IT Services, a native software company, Owais Noor, said, “Secure websites contain a SSL certificate, which makes them secure. Their URL address has ‘https’ (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure).”

“The SSL is kind of an end-to-end encryption that converts the information into a code not readable to a common man. When the information reaches a receiver, it is again decrypted or converted into the message.”

ADVERTISEMENT

Owais said the website of Jammu and Kashmir Bank Limited has installed SSL certificate as its data happens to be “most credential”.

“They cannot take risk of losing the data. All the banks have installed Deluxe Certificate, which means the data on their websites is triply secure,” he said.

Chairman Information and Communication Technology (ICTA), Jahangir Raina, said security of the websites might not be government’s priority.

“When the government departments do not maintain their websites properly, security can only be their secondary concern. However, its consequences can be quite grave, as any hacker can easily enter into the website and edit the details,” he said.

He said every government department should have a dedicated team of five people for maintenance of a website.

“However, they do not have such resources,” he said.

Only two days ago, the website of the Directorate of Health Services Kashmir was hacked by an unknown person, who wrote ‘American N N Vohra’ for the governor and ‘Pakistani’ for his Advisor K Vijay Kumar on the site, both in Urdu.

Commissioner Secretary to Government for Information Technology Department, Saugat Biswas, said, “Information Technology department is not responsible for maintaining the security of websites of every department. We are responsible for IT department only.”

Asked about the IT department, too, not having SSL certificate for its website, he replied, “No, our website is safe and secure and well-maintained.”

Tags: news

Logo

© 2022 The Kashmir Monitor - The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of KM™

No Result
View All Result
  • Home Page
  • Latest News
  • Lead Stories
  • News
  • Kashmir
  • India
  • World
  • Politics
  • Education
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Sports
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Videos
  • Lifestyle
  • Tech-Film
  • Today’s Paper

© 2022 The Kashmir Monitor - The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of KM™

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In