Anonymous Takes Down MTNL’s Website

• Site Down. Hacker group Anonymous claimed to have brought down the website of the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited yesterday via a distributed denial of service attack. The group, which previously hacked into the websites of the Supreme Court of India and the Congress party, in protest of blocking of file-sharing websites, has also planned protests around India on Saturday, June 9. MNTL officials have denied knowledge of the attack, saying that both their sites for Delhi and Mumbai are operational. [IBN Live]

• Net Expansion. As of yesterday, the Internet gained the possibility of issuing trillions of new Internet addresses. Internet Protocol version 6 will replace IPv4, which allowed for only a little over 4 billion unique IP addresses. Both versions will function simultaneously for the next few years so as to minimise disruption to services and Internet-enabled devices. [BBC]

• Social Network. According to a hedge fund manager, Facebook will disappear in 5 to 8 years, following in the footsteps of other Internet behemoths like Yahoo! “Yahoo is still making money. It’s still profitable, still has 13,000 employees working for it. But it’s 10 per cent of the value that it was at the height of 2000. For all intents and purposes, it’s disappeared,” said Eric Jackson, the founder of Ironfire Capital. [The Times of India]