Posts Tagged ‘Internet’

Pakistan Restores Twitter After Block Over Blasphemous Cartoons

Written on May 21st, 2012 by kalelno shouts
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

Written on May 9th, 2012 by kalelone shout
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

Written on April 29th, 2012 by kalel2 shouts
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

Written on April 25th, 2012 by kalelone shout
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

Written on April 14th, 2012 by kalelno shouts
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

Written on April 9th, 2012 by kalelno shouts
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

Written on April 3rd, 2012 by kalelone shout
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

Written on March 27th, 2012 by kalelno shouts
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

Written on February 24th, 2012 by kalelno shouts
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?

Written on February 21st, 2012 by kalelno shouts
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 ...
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