Anonymous India Calls for Non-violent Protests Against Censorship - goodmancrooking1973

The Indian arm of Anonymous is preparation what it describes as not-violent protests against Internet censorship in various Red Indian cities, after some Internet service providers out of use data file-sharing sites in the country.

The protests, planned for June 9, follow a court order in Border district directed at ISPs, meant to prevent a newly released local motion picture from being offered in a pirated version online. Some ISPs went forwards and plugged some charge-unselfish sites altogether, rather than the offending URLs.

One much ISP, Reliance Communications, found its service was tinkered with last week, redirecting its users from sites the like Facebook and Twitter to a protest page, accordant to reports from users. The hackers as wel claimed to have attacked the website and servers of Reliance, and claimed to hold access to a oversized list of URLs blocked aside the company.

Reliance Communications said on Monday it had thoroughly investigated the matter and all its servers and websites are intact. "We feature required preventive measures and strongest possible IT security layers in place to tackle any unwarranted intrusions," the company said in a command. "Scorn continual attempts by hackers, our servers could non follow hacked."

The hackers also claimed to undergo attacked websites of the Bharatiya Janata Political party, the primary opposition party in the country, after having previously launched DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on various websites including that of the Indian bicentric bank, Reserve Bank of India.

Unknown was open in India ultimate twelvemonth, when information technology attacked the website of the Indian army. It quickly reversed its decision to set on the place and kept a low profile after drawing protests from some of its own members.

Unidentified is interrogative supporters to download and print cut-outs of the Guy Fawkes mask, used by the hacker group as a logo, to be worn during the opposed-censoring street protests.

The group's protests are also directed at India's Information Technology Act, which among other things allows the government to impede websites under certain conditions, and also allows the removal of online self-complacent by find to ISPs. The government is in the procedure of framing rules that testament put curbs along exemption happening social media, Unidentified aforementioned in a past video, presumably a reference to demands by the government activity that Cyberspace companies should have a mechanics in place to filter objectionable content, including content that mocks religious figures.

India's Information processing system Pinch Answer Team observed last hebdomad that hacker groups are debut DDoS attacks on government and private websites. These attacks may be targeted at different websites of reputed organizations, the way said in an advisory. The attacks are being launched exploitation popular DDoS tools and tin can consume bandwidth requiring congruent active action in coordination with service providers, it added.

John Ribeiro covers outsourcing and general applied science breaking news from India for The IDG News Service. Follow Trick on Twitter at @Johnribeiro. John's e-mail address is john_ribeiro@idg.com