{"id":80480,"date":"2024-06-25T02:57:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T02:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/national-testing-agency-faces-darknet-threat\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T02:57:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T02:57:07","slug":"national-testing-agency-faces-darknet-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/national-testing-agency-faces-darknet-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"National Testing Agency faces ‘darknet’ threat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The National Testing Agency<\/a> has a new threat from \u2018darknet.\u2019 The staff is not confident about conducting any exam safely because of the threat. Despite the challenges, the NTA<\/a> expects to conduct and announce the results of exams on time and prevent delays. The schedule of the academic year had just gotten on track after the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n

Additionally, the organisation has the concern of keeping the agency together amid rumours of officials on deputation looking to leave.<\/p>\n

Experienced staff members are of the view that it would be difficult to regain confidence unless the agency\u2019s fundamentals are regrouped, irrespective of online or offline mode of examinations. <\/p>\n

A big shake-up in technology and capacity building is needed,\u201d said a senior official to TOI. He added that only looking at the exam model suggested by the high-powered committee would not be enough. For example, he said, \u201cThe computer-based ITEP had to be cancelled despite having a comparatively smaller number of candidates Each file was around 5GB, and when downloaded at the centres, they received distorted question papers”.<\/p>\n

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ITEP is conducted for an entry into select state and central universities, IITs, NITs, RIEs, and government colleges for integrated teacher education programmes.
IT department sources are confident about the CUET results announcement by June 30, reported TOI. They are, however, uncertain about the rescheduling of the cancelled and postponed exams. An NTA source said to TOI, \u201c”don’t feel it’s possible now” due to fears that organisations using the ‘dark web’ have completely hacked into NTA’s security protocols and “have decided to expose the chinks this year.\u201d <\/p>\n

“They are not going to stop. The dark web is used by terrorist organisations. We are not sure how safe even our black box (where question papers are stored) is,” said another official. A source in the government said, \u201cA national level think tank needs to work on such threats.”<\/p>\n

Insiders of the NTA insisted to TOI that there were no paper leaks<\/a> in Bihar. “Two days ago, Bihar<\/a> Police asked for details of six candidates, sharing their roll numbers. Two of the roll numbers don’t exist, in another two, the names and roll numbers don’t match. There are so many contradictions, including the timing of the seizures, which was post-exam when all the question papers are already in the public domain,” said an official from NTA’s computer section.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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