{"id":243763,"date":"2023-05-23T21:59:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=243763"},"modified":"2023-05-23T21:59:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:29:49","slug":"strangers-secrets-spy-scandal-in-drdo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/strangers-secrets-spy-scandal-in-drdo\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangers & Secrets – spy scandal in DRDO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/strong>This article is based on the article \u201cBurden of proof\u201d, <\/strong>published in Times of India<\/strong> on 23rd<\/sup> May 2023. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Syllabus Topic: <\/strong>GS Paper 3, Internal Security<\/p>\n

News:<\/strong> Recently, a DRDO scientist, allegedly fell for a Pakistani “honey-trap”. He is accused on spying for enemy country.<\/p>\n

The accused had access to over 50 DRDO establishments, including laboratories, and headed an R&D division overseeing India’s missile launcher programmes.<\/p>\n

What are the cyber threats faced by military infrastructure of India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

First concern is the integrity of hardware, which is largely not manufactured in India<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Second concern is human error<\/strong>. Over the last six years, more than 20 serving and retired army staff were reportedly arrested for allegedly spying for Pakistan’s ISI. “Honey-traps” is one of the methods used to lure.<\/p>\n

What are the guidelines issues by DRDO?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The army has issued a circular warning personnel against posting or forwarding official communication on WhatsApp and storing data on devices at home.<\/p>\n

Similarly, DRDO has also suggested not to entertain unknown numbers, avoid chats with unknown people, and not to share information.<\/p>\n

What more can be done?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Train all military and defence research staff on how to check the IP address of any stranger chatting in a friendly manner. Also, make it mandatory for them to immediately report such encounters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: This article is based on the article \u201cBurden of proof\u201d, published in Times of India on 23rd May 2023. Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 3, Internal Security News: Recently, a DRDO scientist, allegedly fell for a Pakistani “honey-trap”. He is accused on spying for enemy country. The accused had access to over 50 DRDO establishments,… Continue reading Strangers & Secrets – spy scandal in DRDO<\/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-243763","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":1704953147},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243763","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=243763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}