Source: Al Arabiya
Iran’s telecommunications ministry has barred local banks, insurance firms and telephone operators from using foreign-sourced emails to communicate with clients, a specialist weekly said on Saturday.
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Iran curbs foreign-sourced email providers
May 12, 2012 – 2:49 pm
Internews’ Global Digital Download
May 10, 2012 – 2:41 am
Source: Internews
The Global Digital Download is a weekly publication that aggregates resources on Internet freedom, highlighting trends in digital and social media that intersect with freedom of expression, policy, privacy, censorship and new technologies.
Indian government gives ISPs one month for enabling VoIP interception
May 7, 2012 – 5:23 pm
Source: Anupam Saxena, MediaNama
The Indian government has given a one month deadline to Internet Service Providers, specially the ones offering services in Jammu & Kashmir, to come up with a solution enabling the interception of VoIP calls.
Several targeted attacks exploiting Adobe Flash Player
May 6, 2012 – 5:27 pm
Source: Alien Vault
A couple of days ago, Adobe issued a security update for Adobe Flash Player that has been detected in the wild targeting specific objectives.
China blamed for multi-continent cyberspying caper in 2011
May 3, 2012 – 5:31 pm
Source: Mark Clayton, Christian Science Monitor
For six months last year, cyberspies infiltrated and siphoned key data from the computer networks of at least 20 organizations in the US, Australia, Canada, and Europe.
UK filmmaker unwittingly divulges identity of Syrian activists
May 3, 2012 – 2:55 pm
Source: Matthieu Aikins, Columbia Journalism Review
Last fall, “Kardokh,” a 25-year-old dissident and computer expert in the Syrian capital of Damascus, met with British journalist and filmmaker Sean McAllister. (Kardokh is his online pseudonym, used at his request.)
Targeted attacks in Syria
May 3, 2012 – 2:51 pm
Source: F-Secure
Syria has been the center of much international attention lately.
Hackers breached top secret defense systems, UK cyber-security chief admits
May 3, 2012 – 2:08 am
Source: Nick Hopkins, The Guardian
Computer hackers have managed to breach some of the top secret systems within the Ministry of Defence, the military’s head of cyber-security has revealed.
Time for Google to speak out against CISPA
May 3, 2012 – 1:54 am
Source: Andy Greenberg, Forbes
As the Internet’s political anger has massed around the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act over the last month, the world’s biggest Web firm has remained almost entirely silent.
Avaaz claims its website under DDOS attack
May 2, 2012 – 2:29 am
Source: Avaaz
An expert has told Avaaz that an attack this large is likely coming from a government or large corporation, with massive, simultaneous and sophisticated assaults from across the world to take down their site.
