Internet Control

Maharashtra Cyber has issued advisories to various state government departments, including police, to take precautionary steps to avoid cyber attacks as the credentials of many of these departments were found on the darknet, officials said on Friday.
The departments include Maharashtra Public Service Commission, the Directorate General of Information and Public Relations (DGIPR), the Electricity Department, Maha DBT, among others, as Maharashtra Cyber and the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) in many cases found usernames, passwords and APN keys on the darknet, they added.
They also said Maharashtra Cyber has written to Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) recommending blocking of Wikipedia platform under relevant sections of Information Technology Act for failing to comply with specific police directives.
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He said Maharashtra Cyber, while monitoring the internet landscape, had found objectionable content against Maratha emperor Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj on Wikipedia, after which several notices were issued to Wikipedia and its parent organization Wikimedia Foundation for removal of such content as well as disclosure of user information responsible for editing these passages.
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Another official said a similar notice has been sent to Proton Mail services as it was allegedly misused for serious criminal activities.