Govt blocks two websites, FB pages of ISIS propaganda

Cracking its whip on terror propaganda being carried on Internet, government today ordered banning of two <g data-gr-id="12">websites</g> and some pages on social networking site Facebook after it was found that they contained material detrimental to the country's sovereignty.

The decision was taken during a high-level meeting in which officials from Department of Telecom, Home Ministry and central security agencies participated.

The meeting was convened by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), a nodal agency under Ministry of Communications, that deals with cyber security threats like hacking and phishing.

"On the request of the IB and some police, the CERT-In has blocked two websites belonging to Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which were spreading outfit's propaganda, and two Facebook pages which were being run by anonymous people in J&K," a senior government officer said.

The two websites spreading ISIS propaganda had details of how to make bombs and training modules of the outfit.