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Internet Security in Nepal

February 12, 2013

(Eak Raj Bastola)---
Guess the frequency of Nepal’“Once in a blue moon”, this proverb refers to the Nepali site. Government and political party rarely updated their site. Most of the private organization makes it for the sake.  Till date, Nepali people cannot get updated information on website; they tend to turn the file of page as tradition to know the records of any statistics.
However,  current internet penetration rate is 14.55 % and There are more than 2500 nepali website aired on the web.  The subscriber of ISP’s in Nepal reaches more than 61,621. But, due to lack of appropriate knowledge and conciousness,  Internet in the Nepal is not safe. In order to this, no one has really applied securities measure in their website.
But the digital transaction in Nepal is rising day by day. .In the present context, the use of e-banking, sms banking, smart card and other electronic transaction is increasing rapidly. But, no one has more cared about the safest transaction and do not use any measure like digital signature so far in the electronic transaction. Ministry of Science and Technology, government has formed the Controller of Certifying Authorities (OCC)to issue Digital Signature Certificates  which has  completed its basic infrastructure to supply it. Currently, office is busy on preparing licening producedure and working on data backup system, Rajan Raj Panta, Controller of Controller of Certifying Authorities,  informed TNP. In the Electronic Transaction Act, 2063, there is a provinance of Digital Signature (DS). Digital signature  will provide the digital security and secure data for the digital transaction. . To control and scape from hanking and defusing about electronic transaction, DS is most. It also controls the crime in  online banking, sms banking, social networking website like twitter, facebook and other electronic transaction. 
Establishment of DS is  positive signifance to the Internet Security, Aryal said. Due to the heavy cost on money to make the system secure, only few banks tried to adopt some measures about their transaction so far.


Due to the lack of securites applied in Internet, Nepali sites are in the eyes of hackers. So far more than 50 government, bank, private organization, news portals are hacked, Debesh P Lohani, Information Security Consultant said to TNP. Recently, Central Post office website is hacked.  After that, Nabil Bank, Bank of Asia, Prime Bank,  are the example whose site is hacked some month before by a Turkish hacker league called “Turkey Cyber Army”, he said.  Other some of the hacked website are Nepal Telecom Authority, The Himalayan Times, Nepal Engineer’s Association,Nepal Telecommunication Authority have been hacked by the unknown identity known as “ardhapagal”. Likewise The US Senate, NASA, CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), FBI and others website globally targeted by the hackers
Due to the less visited on website, and less dependency on Nepali site, Hackers eyes are not on the Nepali Site, but they are more targeted on international website, Dibesh Lohani, Information Security Consult, said. According to Lohani, Hackers eyes are on the Nepali government site.So, far more than 50 website is hacked or somewhat defused by anonymous hacker.  Most of the hackers defuse the index page, they write on something for their indentification.
Most of the website can be hacked due to the insider, president of Internet Society Nepal Chapter (ISOC) Baburam Aryal said.  Less user awareness and system security policy lends the website be defused, Aryan Added.
Mainly, Hacker hacked for the business proposition, Entertainment, amateur and rivals, Lohani said.  Due to strength-less security on information, system(infrastructure), web-database and application loophole, user behaviour, many information so far is neutralize by the hackers, Lohani claimed.
User open the suspicious mail, click on new item whatever they like passes the identification of the User.  Then the spy attack the website on this path, Aryan informed.
 “The policy of government about Digital Signature will be aid to control and punish the convicted people” .Under the Electronic Transaction Act, 2063, Article 45 hacker can be imprisoned to 3 years sentence and 2 lakhs fined, Aryal Said. But There is a big  challenges  on the approaches of the DS to the grassroot level and implimentation of it. ”
However, Most of the ATM is not well equipped with CCTV camera, security guard services and the people enter the booth without opening helmet. If the evil eyes goes on ATM, too, it can be hacked and captured the personal code and transfer the transaction, Lohani suggested.
Some of the hacked sites were

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