In a startling revelation, a Swedish hacker named Dan Egerstad of Deranged Security has just revealed that he has been able to hack 100 highly sensitive e-mail accounts owned by embassies of different countries including India, China, Russia, Pakistan. Not only that, he has been able to break the security wall of Indian Defence Academy (NDA) , Defence & Research Development Organization (DRDO). After hacking and posting about his achievement on his website, Mr. Egerstad has also given interview with leading Indian news-channel and offered to provide his contact details.

By nature, most brilliant hackers are egoistic and play with security arrangement of highly guarded sites just to have some fun. Dan Egerstad seems to be one of them as he has come out openly about it. His act seems to be intended to educate the self-contented officials who live in false guise of security whereas they forget that technology is changing each and every minute and they must keep pace with time. According to Dan, it all these sites have in secured POP (Post Office Protocol)

No need to mention how in secured these establishment might feel now. They would also feel a bit relieved because their sensitive data has not been taken away by their enemies or they have not lost anything through government espionage.

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