Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry suspects its info ‘compromised’, asks officials to follow online security guidelines

Suspecting its information being “compromised”, the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has asked its officials to strictly follow the IT Ministry’s online security advisory, which includes avoiding surfing of “inappropriate websites” and use of personal USBs in office computer.

Last week, the government informed Parliament that over two dozen websites of central ministries, departments and state governments were hacked till May this year, as per information by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).

In its written communication to all officials and subordinated offices, the HUA Ministry said some malware and vulnerable issues have come to the notice where security of information appear to be “compromised”.