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Internet around the world may shut down
Saturday
Friday March 30, 2012 07:45:39 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Come Saturday and there is a strong possibility that you won't be
able to indulge in your favourite internet activities like
shopping and surfing due to a hacking group - Anonymous - which
has threatened to shut down the net.
"Operation Global Blackout 2012 looks to shut down the internet
for a whole day tomorrow (Saturday) by disabling its core DNS
servers, making websites inaccessible," said Interpol's Secretary
General, Ronald K. Noble.
Noble was speaking at the thirteenth D.P. Kohli memorial lecture
on "Multijurisdictional Investigation: Operation Unmask" in the
capital.
According to Noble, "Anonymous" is protesting against several
reasons including the crash of Wall Street and irresponsible
leaders.
"Investigations have already been launched by Colombia, Chile and
Spain as their private and public websites have been attacked by
the group," he added.
Meanwhile, Interpol has launched Operation Unmask to deal with the
group and arrested 31 alleged members in two different phases in
February and March, 2012.
However, Anonymous vowed vengeance and retaliated through a global
wave of cyber-attacks on Interpol Feb 28.
"At its peak, the wave reached 400,000 attacks per minute. My
parents' home address and phone number were published on
websites," said Noble.
According to Noble, there are around 2.3 billion internet users in
the world and more than one million of them are affected by
cybercrime every year while $388 billion dollars is the global
cost of such crimes.
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