Officials reject reports of possible Internet shutdown over next 2 days
October 12, 2018 19:49
Hours after a report suggested that Internet users across the globe may experience widespread network failures over the next 48 hours, a top government cyber security official clarified that there will not be any Internet shutdown in India.
"All arrangements are in place and there will be no internet shutdown in India as is being circulated in the media," Gulshan Rai, National Cyber Security Coordinator, was quoted as saying by NDTV.
Earlier, a report in ANI had suggested that key domain servers would be down because of routine maintenance work over the next two days, which could result in Internet users facing difficulties in accessing web pages or making any transactions in the next 48 hours.
The ANI report said the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) would carry out the maintenance work by changing the cryptographic key that helps protect the internet's address book or the Domain Name System (DNS).
This has been necessitated to counter rising incidents of cyberattacks, ICANN was quoted as saying.
However, the NDTV report quoted ICANN as saying that the ANI report's headline was 'click bait', and that there would be minimum impact to users.
'Unfortunately, that story carries a headline that is a click bait. There will be minimal impact to users. Note that data analysis suggests that more than 99 per cent of users whose resolvers are validating will be unaffected,' an ICANN spokesperson from Singapore was quoted as saying by NDTV. -- Agencies
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