The Indian Railways on Tuesday said it had put in various security checks to ensure there is no misuse of ticket booking facility on the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) website. Users will now have to wait for at least 35 seconds before he or she can book a ticket over the IRCTC website to prevent faster booking of tickets through illegal software, IRCTC Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) A.K. Manocha said. Earlier, the minimum waiting time for booking rail tickets online was kept at 10 seconds which was more vulnerable to cyber attacks.
Users need to enter CAPTCHA – a series of numbers to distinguish between human and computers thrice now. This will be needed at the log-in, reservation and payment stages. “With these checks, it is not possible to book any opening tatkal ticket by any software being sold in the market earlier than 35 seconds,” said an official statement.
