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4chan hacks Egyptian, Yemen government websites

  • Posted February 3, 2011, 1:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in IT Security
  • 4Chan's users, who call themselves "Anonymous," hacked Egyptian and Yemen government websites this week. About 500 Anonymous participants took down websites for the Egyptian Ministry of Information and the ruling National Democratic Party in Egypt. For Yemen, the websites targeted…

Egyptian government restores Internet after five-day blackout

Egyptian government restores Internet after five-day blackout
  • Posted February 2, 2011, 10:17 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
  • Egyptian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) returned to the Internet at 11:29am Cairo time, readvertising routes to their domestic customer networks in the global routing table. Noor Group, the last ISP to disconnect its users from the Web, was the last…

Google using YouTube to highlight Egyptian protest footage

  • Posted February 1, 2011, 4:15 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web With Video
  • YouTube has been highlighting Egyptian protest footage for days, but Google has now outlined the ways it is making sure the world knows what's going on in the unstable country. In addition to developing a "speak-to-tweet" service that lets anyone…

Egyptian government orders Internet blackout amid protests

Egyptian government orders Internet blackout amid protests
  • Posted January 28, 2011, 1:27 PM by Julio Franco | Filed in The Web Breaking News
  • In response to civil protests around the country, the Egyptian government has shut down most of the Internet communications in and out of the country. According to reports, an initial shutdown earlier this week temporarily affected connections to social networks…

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