A new intelligence assessment has concluded that the United States is the target of a massive, sustained cyber-espionage campaign that is threatening the country’s economic competitiveness, The Washington Post reported, citing unnamed officials. According to the newspaper, the National Intelligence Estimate identifies China as the country most aggressively seeking to penetrate the computer systems of […]
A Palestinian Authority court on Thursday sentenced a man to a year in prison for “insulting” Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Facebook, AFP reported. The Shechem court sent Anas Said Awad, 26, from the nearby village of Awarta, to jail over a caption he posted next to a picture of Abbas kicking a football saying “a […]
Activists from the infamous hacker group known as Anonymous have disabled the United States Sentencing Commission’s website and have vowed to release classified government information in revenge for the death of Internet freedom advocate Aaron Swartz. The hackers replaced the website of the commission, an independent agency of the U.S. Justice Department involved in sentencing, […]
A French court ordered Twitter on Thursday to disclose the identities of racist and anti-Semitic users to police, ruling it unacceptable to post hateful material anonymously. The decision issued by a high court in Paris came in response to a lawsuit filed by the Union of French Jewish Students in October that successfully sought to order […]
United States law enforcement officials on Wednesday announced charges against three alleged East European cyber thieves accused of stealing banking information from computers across Europe and the United States, including at the space agency NASA. The “alleged international cyber criminals (were) responsible for creating and distributing a computer virus that infected over one million computers […]
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) expressed outraged on Tuesday over Facebook’s treatment of the internationally acclaimed Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh, whose reports are often critical of the Palestinian Authority leadership. Toameh’s Facebook account was suspended after a campaign of online vilification and threats convinced the social networking site to temporarily deactivate his account, removing […]
Sure, you’re smart enough to use the Internet. That’s how you found this post. But are you smart enough to be trusted with the power to select your own Internet search engine? Some—mostly competitors of Google—aren’t so sure. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided (after an almost two-year-long investigation) that Google isn’t violating antitrust […]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton downplayed the suggestion that emails implicating an Al Qaeda-linked group in the attack on the American embassy in Benghazi were proof of terrorist involvement, saying their claims of responsibility on Facebook and Twitter were not “evidence.” The recently obtained emails, which raise questions about whether the White House was […]
While the Internet has long been the battleground for opposing ideas, the most recent series of bloody protests has, once again, placed Google in the spotlight, forced to weigh the western value of free speech against Islam’s strict laws regarding blasphemy, at least as far as their own religion is concerned. The company has confirmed […]
Journalists are scratching their heads to figure out why Israeli and American leaders are leading a daily chatter of a military attack on Iran, but the flow of words may be a ruse to give Iran a double jolt as its deep fear that a cyber war can knock out its nuclear program prompts Tehran […]
