{"id":218376,"date":"2022-12-14T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=218376"},"modified":"2022-12-14T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:14:09","slug":"what-aiims-server-hijack-tells-us-about-cyber-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-aiims-server-hijack-tells-us-about-cyber-security\/","title":{"rendered":"What AIIMS Server \u201cHijack\u201d tells Us About Cyber Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201c<strong>What AIIMS Server \u201cHijack\u201d Tells Us About Cyber Security\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Times of India<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>14<sup>th<\/sup> December 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Security<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong><strong>concerns with the ransomware attacks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>There was a ransomware attack on the servers of AIIMS recently.\u00a0This attack has raised concerns over the safety of citizen\u2019s personal data stored online in Aadhaar database.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is a ransomware attack?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Read here:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/are-ransomware-attacks-increasing-in-india\/\">Are ransomware attacks increasing in India? <\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the concerns?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Ransomware attacks have been increasing these days. The efforts of moving India into <strong>Digital India<\/strong> raise concerns after looking at the current cyber-attack on the AIIMs and that also without a comprehensive cyber security plan.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the <strong>Aadhaar database<\/strong> which contains the information of citizens online is also vulnerable to cyber-attacks.<\/p>\n<p>GoI and the state governments proceeded to adopt Aadhaar-based technology despite the <strong>Supreme Court<\/strong> ruling against making Aadhaar registration mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Aadhaar is used at various places and it has been made mandatory for availing various services. This increases the risk of getting exposed to any such cyber-attacks in the future even though the government argues that it is safe.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the way ahead?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>There is a need for establishing a <strong>Cyber Security Board<\/strong> with the government and private sector as participants.<\/p>\n<p>This board should have the authority to recommend and strategize the plan for keeping the government\u2019s data safe online and prevent any future cyber-attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cWhat AIIMS Server \u201cHijack\u201d Tells Us About Cyber Security\u201d published in The Times of India\u00a0on\u00a014th December 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Security Relevance: concerns with the ransomware attacks News: There was a ransomware attack on the servers of AIIMS recently.\u00a0This attack has raised concerns over the safety of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-aiims-server-hijack-tells-us-about-cyber-security\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What AIIMS Server \u201cHijack\u201d tells Us About Cyber Security<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-218376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704713690},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}