Extreme Trix

I still remember my olden days when I used to read newspapers and it used to be full of newses of crimes and attacks, but these days I don’t see even a single. Perhaps the people now understood that wars and attacks are just a waste of time and money, moreover they might be afraid of the new defensive mechanisms. Or they have understood that smart work is better than hard work (yeah!).

Cyber Thieves

This morning while searching for some good news, I got a big news that CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) have issued a high alert to all military formations and installations to get guard against ‘Focused large scale cyber attacks’. According to the alert these attacks are more likely to be launched this month of – April.

The effective measures would be taken to prevent the data from the servers to get stolen or ‘Hacked’ by the hackers. Military Establishment Defence Military staff at Washington have even stopped using their computers (and other devices too that needs internet connectivity) by directly connecting to Internet modems.

Their  Team and a Canadian of cyber security officials said that the attacks could be originated from any country across the world. There is a high chance of getting attacks from China* (the country which has cyber security military priorities at topmost) is more as most of the extreme hackers who are breaking high securitified servers daily live there. Because of this China had made cyber warfare one of the topmost military priorities.

A report reported that in month of March some Indian documents as a secret and six restricted documents were also accessed by Chinese hackers.

Sachin Pilot, who is minister for Information Technology and Telecommnunications said -

We need to be extra vigilant about cyber attacks and terrorism because this can inflict asymmetric nature, and therefore that much dangerous too.

He also observed and reported that government had not compromised this time and nor going to compromise too. A quiet effort is under way to set up defensive mechanisms.

Well, I can’t say anything that how they are going to tackle these attacks without any mechanism and proper planning that needs to be made, but yeah I can give some tips to the WordPress users to remain safe, tough precaution is always better than cure. Here are some tips:

• If you are designing a new WordPress blog, try not to make it look complex.
• Always keep a backup of your blog (can use WP-DB-Backup plug-in)  because anything can happen any time and try not make common mistakes that every blogger does.
• There is a plug-in available on the Web called – Login Lockdown that will help you in preventing the site being get hacked by brute force login attempts.

What do you think? How our country is going to tackle all those genius hackers without any defensive mechanism? Drop it down (remember even a single suggestion is useful).

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