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‘Malware tied to porn put MHA comps at risk’

‘Malware tied to porn put MHA comps at risk’, April 12,2018: The Times of India

Some subordinate staff in the Union home ministry would see pornographic content on internet and download malware in office, leading to compromise of the computer networks, former Union home secretary G K Pillai said.

“When I was the Union home secretary, every 60 days we would find the computers compromised,” said Pillai, who chairs the non-profit Data Security Council of India (DSCI) promoted by Nasscom.

He said senior officials used to be busy with meetings for which the subordinate staff would have to stay back. “So what will they (subordinates) do? They go and open the internet and they are on porn sites..., and download all sorts of things that come up with malware,” he said, addressing the maiden Finsec Conclave