Do you remember this

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Do you remember this?

• Is BARC being brought under the defence ministry?
  If that happens, there'll be a lot of
  restrictions. I have doubts if the explosion was
  successful. That place is full of idiots,
  including Chidu . I know them inside out. I'm
  sure those morons aren't capable of anything.
  Must have exploded some RDX and are now claiming
  to have exploded the bomb for political gains.
  Biku is jumping about here and newspapers report
  some VECC scientists have contributed to the
  nuclear tests. He has asked for special security.
  The clown has got two bodyguards. Security has
  been tightened at the institute.

A sample of data stolen from BARC, released by
Milworm A Pakistani Hacker Group
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Internet The fifth dimension
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e-psyc ops The internet Psychological War

• By- P. Chacko Joseph
• Frontier India Defence Strategic News Service

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Cyber Space is now is now taken for granted.

• E-mail and chat are no longer primary internet
  traffic drivers, but its research and
  information that prompts people to log on to the
  net more often.
• A 32 active users of the internet in India used
  the internet as the primary source for
  information and research in 2006, up from just 20
  per cent in 2001.
• Internet And Mobile Association of India, 2006

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Is Internet Psychology WarfareRelevant to
India?
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Examples of cyber warfare on India

• Internet web page defaced after the BARC web
  server was hacked by milworm a pakistani hacker
  group soon after the 1998 Shakti Nuclear
  Tests.
• Defence Journal of Pakistan maligning Indian
  Defence research projects.
  
• BBC and western media documenting internal
  social,  economic and  military problems. IAF
  dwindling pilots issue was brought out by BBC.
  
• Pakistani and Chinese use of wikipedia and other
  sources to change the history of wars and
  relations with India.
  
• Indian web sites including "Frontier India
  Journal" getting hacked by Pakistani hackers.
  

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Examples of cyber warfare on India

• Psychological manipulation through the media
  including internet by Indian import lobby and
  foreign subversive groups.
  
• Pakistani, communist and terrorist groups using
  social networking sites like "Orkut" to defame
  India and to promote themselves.
  
• Pakistanis using internet to promote
  mis-information against India on kashmir .
  
• Indian Army website on Jammu and Kashmir was
  hacked in 2000 back by Pakistani hackers. They
  had floated false information about human rights
  violations by the Indian defence forces on the
  Army's websites. Pakistan Hacker Club and MoS
  were responsible.
• In a cyber attack in 2000, suspected to be the
  handiwork of Pakistans ISI, the homepage of
  70-year-old Indian Statistical Institute was
  hacked here in an abortive bid to erase vital
  data. "Our organization's name is ISI. And no
  other organisation can exist with this name."

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IN 2006

• 5200 Indian websites were attacked

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The Internet has a global-reach. It is a
cost-effective platform for dissemination of a
message, rumor, lie and inside information

• Psychological operations or PSYOPS is an indirect
  use of information warfare methods to deceive,
  shape and influence the behavior and attitude of
  the targeted audience.

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Common cyber war practices

• Telecommunication disruption
• Denial of Service attacks
• Propaganda and defamation

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Some basic examples

• propaganda
• Impersonation
• Self-serving news items, commissioned ones
• Hacking

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e-Terrorism

• Terrorist merge raw brutality with digital
  propaganda.
  
• Internet allows terrorist to disseminate
  information to a larger audience which was once
  the monopoly of state and trans national news
  channels.

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Indian Internet warfare examples

• Operation Vijay During Operation Vijay, India
  responded pro-actively to Pakistans
  disinformation campaign. Indian Armys official
  website and some additional Kargil-based websites
  were quickly spruced up to disseminate the truth
  about Kargil. As Pakistan continued to deny its
  Armys role in Kargil, Indian websites quietly
  uploaded scanned images of identity cards, ration
  cards and mess bills recovered from captured
  Pakistani soldiers.
• In 2003 pro-Indian hackers had launched a "cyber
  revenge" by spreading the Yaha worm aimed
  Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS).
  
• Aero Nautical Development website on LCA updates

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Indian official Cyber Warriors

• Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In)

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Indian un official e-Warriors

• Age Profile 14 36 years
• Education 102 to Post Graduates
• Hangouts Forums Blogs
• Reason Defence and equipment news
• (Refer Slide 4 E-mail and chat are no longer
  primary internet traffic drivers, but its
  research and information that prompts people to
  log on to the net more often.)

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Web 2.0

• Blogs, Forums and Amateur Websites have become
  primary drivers of opinions.
  
• Primary news sources are now increasingly relying
  on the web 2.0 for news and opinions.
  
• Experts using web 2.0 to collect, disseminate and
  debate.
  
• This presentation was possible due to web 2.0

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Wrapping it up

• Psyc-ops is now an option before war and
  diplomacy.
  
• The evolution of online PSYOPS is on its way and
  is actively utilized by both adversaries, and
  everyone in between.
  
• As India grows in international stature, we need
  to explain our foreign, economic and defence
  policies directly to foreign audience. Internet
  is the most efficient, cost effective and
  persuasive medium available to us.
• It Is Now UP To US

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Thank You(note This presentation has been
edited, this is not the full version of the total
presentation)