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Pak. hackers step up cyber war stakes

Even as India and Pakistan renew efforts to resolve contentious issues through dialogue, a virtual war is afoot between the two neighbours in the cyberspace. This year, Pakistani hackers have hacked as many as 546 Indian websites so far, compared with only 288 last year, media reports said today. “For every Pakistani site defaced by Indian hackers, the Pakistanis hack into 10 Indian sites. There is a constant game of one-upmanship happening online,” the daily quoted Anubhab Kalia, chief of flawfinder.com, a service that monitors the defacement of Indian sites, as saying. Sites such as the one maintained by the Indian government to provide information about the army and its activities in Kashmir were hacked. Full Story