J&K: Authorities ban all VPNs for two months in Kathua; order cites security concerns

JAMMU: After Rajouri and Poonch, present authorities successful Jammu’s Kathua territory person suspended Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) for 2 months, citing information concerns.The preventive enactment has been taken nether conception 163 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita arsenic VPN services are being misused by definite individuals and groups to bypass cyber restrictions and entree prohibited applications, websites and integer content, the bid issued by territory magistrate Rajesh Sharma connected Wednesday stated.The suspension came into unit with contiguous effect (Dec 24), and volition use to each individuals, institutions, cyber cafes and net work providers operating wrong the district, “except those explicitly permitted by govt done a circumstantial authoritative order”. Any usurpation volition invitation ineligible enactment nether the applicable provisions of law, the bid said.Kathua SSP has been directed to guarantee strict enforcement of the order.On Nov 30, Poonch DM Ashok Kumar Sharma had ordered suspension of each VPN services successful the borderline territory for 2 months, citing their imaginable misuse for unlawful activities. “The SSP informed that determination has been an unprecedented precocious usage of VPNs successful the past fewer days astatine antithetic locations of the territory by suspicious net users,” Sharma said successful the order.It was informed that VPN transmit gets encrypted and creates a point-to-point tunnel, masks IP addresses, and sidesteps website blocks and firewalls connected the internet, frankincense making delicate information susceptible to cyber attacks.

A time before, connected Nov 29, Rajouri DM Abhishek Sharma had issued a akin bid pursuing a connection from police.Prior to this, the Doda medication had, done an bid connected May 6, ordered suspension of VPNs citing nationalist safety, cybersecurity and integrity of integer governance successful the district.