Now, landline broadband subscribers face hacking issues
Dinesh Manhotra
Tribune News Service
Jammu, August 29
Even as the authorities have snapped mobile Internet across J&K to check spreading of rumours, subscribers of landline broadband connections are now confronting with hacking problem as ‘smart’ hackers have managed to ‘steal’ passwords of broadband. Most of the broadband scribers have set ‘easy’ passwords so hackers are not finding it difficult to get their passwords through simple procedure.
A senior officer of BSNL admitted that they had received complaints about hacking of broadband passwords in some areas. “Hackers are smart so they are using advance technology to hack passwords of broadband in many areas,” the officer said, adding, “We have already advised subscribes across the region to change their passwords regularly to avoid hacking.”
Sources said mobile phones of some companies had inbuilt apps through which one could easily hack passwords of broadband so hackers were especially using that mobile sets to get passwords of broadband in their respective areas.
“Instead of buying quality equipment from BSNL, some subscribers are purchasing low-quality equipment from open market and this is one of the reasons that hackers can easily hack passwords,” the sources said.
After the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of J&K into two Union Territories (UTs), mobile Internet connections were snapped in the state on the intervening night of August 5 and 6. As per reports, this is the 51st time in 2019 that access to Internet has been suspended in different areas of J&K. Last year, there were 65 shutdowns and 176 over the past eight years.
On August 17, 2G mobile Internet services were restored in Jammu, Reasi, Samba, Kathua and Udhampur districts of the Jammu region, but the authorities were forced to again snap mobile Internet connections within 12 hours after some fake video had gone viral on social media. The authorities have claimed that mobile Internet services were suspended on August 5, in view of security concerns in the region as some forces from across the border were desperate to spread fake messages and videos in this part to instigate people. Internet is available on landline broadband.
