India’s space agency Isro is facing more than 100 cyber-hacking attempts on a daily basis, disclosed its chairman S Somanath on Sunday. Speaking to TOI, Somanath said, “It is not only Isro, but several other systems (of other organisations) that face hundreds of cyber (hacking) attempts. But such attempts have been stopped by our several protection measures – both hardware and software. They are meant to protect any cyber attempt.
A cyber attempt becomes an attack only when it is successful in penetrating the security system. But this has not happened. Isro has a robust security network to face such attempts. We have several firewalls and safety mechanisms. So, all these attempts are not allowed to breach beyond a point and stopped at the outer layer of our firewall itself.”
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Source: MSN News