Indian and Pakistani hackers are engaged in a round of tit-for-tat defacing of government-run websites of the two countries, targeting such major organisations as India's oil and gas major Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and its Pakistani counterpart Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority.
The cyber warfare began in mid-November when an Indian group of hackers known as HMG or 'Guards of Hindustan' defaced the website of Pakistan's Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority and deleted all its data. The move created a buzz in cyberspace as HMG had earlier hacked a number of Pakistani communities on the social networking website Orkut.
Apparently acting in retaliation, a group calling itself the Pakistan Cyber Army on Tuesday hacked five Indian websites,