Pakistan Restores Twitter After Block Over Blasphemous Cartoons

Pakistan restored access to Twitter on Sunday after briefly blocking the site over posts that Islamabad said promoted a Facebook contest involving caricatures of the prophet Muhammad, AFP reported. The ...

Interpol President: 1,000 Cyber Attacks Per Minute in Israel

Israel is hosting the three-day International Interpol Convention, which began on Tuesday in Tel Aviv. Some 200 senior delegates from law enforcement agencies across 40 European nations are attending the ...

Taking on the Taliban Online

Somebody hacked a Taliban website. Big surprise. Actually, no surprise. No surprise that the Taliban and other terrorists groups are online. When the issues of terrorism and the Internet are ...

CISPA Is Ready for Prime Time

This week, the House of Representatives will vote on several cybersecurity bills, giving rise to the apt moniker “Cyber Week.” Congress is right to act on this very important issue, ...

How Kony 2012 Went Viral

Invisible Children brought worldwide attention to Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army with a wildly popular documentary called “Kony 2012.” The 30-minute film depicted Kony’s a violent militia in ...

Urgent Challenges for New Public Diplomacy Chief

Rolling up her sleeves should be new Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Tara Sonenshine’s first act in office. For the chief of the U.S. government’s outreach to the foreign public, urgent ...

Al-Qaeda’s Service Interruption: Long May It Last

Al-Qaeda’s main Web forums have been offline for the past 11 days and counting. No government has taken credit, but if this “service interruption” actually is the result of government ...

Live Mike Helps Amplify Obama-Romney Differences Over Russia

Mitt Romney apparently believes that he has reaped a double bonus after a conversation between Barack Obama and outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Seoul Nuclear Conference was captured ...

Heritage Expert’s New Book Addresses Battle for the Internet

Today we have access to vast amount of information at the click of mouse but are also faced with those who seek to steal secrets, disable defenses, or otherwise use ...

Impersonating Anonymous: Is It State Sponsored Terrorism?

This article is republished courtesy of Andre Oboler and originally appeared on the Jerusalem Post Blogs. Since its earliest days the “Internet gathering” known as Anonymous has declared “we are legion”. After ...