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…
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…
Posted February 1, 2011, 4:15 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The WebWith 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…
Posted January 28, 2011, 1:27 PM by Julio Franco | Filed in The WebBreaking 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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