Anonymous India hacks national cyber security agency website

BANGALORE: After launching multiple attacks on government websites, online hacker group ' Anonymous' that protests against Internet censorship in India, claims to have taken down the website of Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) - the national nodal agency responsible for responding to cyber security threats across the country.

CERT-In, has been operational since 2004 and acts in all areas of cyber security including, forecasting, preventing and reporting of cyber security incidents. According to the Anonymous India's facebook page, the decision to take down the Cert-In website was taken last night.

""Cert-In website has been hacked till the deepest corner of their server.Today we will not let you eat, we will not let you sleep ,"" Anonymous India posted on its facebook page today morning.

The group has planned on-the-ground protests in 18 major cities across India at 4 PM on Saturday. In Bangalore, protests are expected to start from the MG Road metro station. However, a few recent posts on 'The Occupy Bangalore' facebook page says the venue has been shifted to Freedom Park.

""Anyone not comfortable with roaming metro stations there is a group of us going to be at freedom park and all are welcome to come there from 4:00 onwards,"" a post on the Occupy Bangalore page said.

Over the past few weeks the group had attacked the websites of MTNL, Trinamool Congress, Supreme Court of India, AICC, BJP and Reliance Big Entertainment.