<p class="title">Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday directed IRCTC and the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) to strengthen cybersecurity measures in the wake of a ticketing scam unearthed by the CBI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A software programmer of the anti-corruption division of CBI and a former employee of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) were arrested on Tuesday by the CBI for reportedly operating an illicit software, which subverted the railways' reservation system.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The manipulated system allowed agents to book hundreds of tatkal tickets at a single click of the mouse, officials said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The CBI arrested its assistant programmer Ajay Garg and his front man Anil Gupta for developing and distributing the software to agents for a price, CBI spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The CBI probe so far has indicated that Garg, a 35-year-old software engineer had joined the CBI in 2012 through a selection process and has been working as an assistant programmer. He apparently learned the vulnerabilities of the IRCTC ticketing software during his tenure there between 2007 and 2011.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Both have been sent to five days of CBI custody.</p>
<p class="title">Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday directed IRCTC and the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) to strengthen cybersecurity measures in the wake of a ticketing scam unearthed by the CBI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A software programmer of the anti-corruption division of CBI and a former employee of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) were arrested on Tuesday by the CBI for reportedly operating an illicit software, which subverted the railways' reservation system.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The manipulated system allowed agents to book hundreds of tatkal tickets at a single click of the mouse, officials said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The CBI arrested its assistant programmer Ajay Garg and his front man Anil Gupta for developing and distributing the software to agents for a price, CBI spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The CBI probe so far has indicated that Garg, a 35-year-old software engineer had joined the CBI in 2012 through a selection process and has been working as an assistant programmer. He apparently learned the vulnerabilities of the IRCTC ticketing software during his tenure there between 2007 and 2011.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Both have been sent to five days of CBI custody.</p>