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Internet traffic in and out of Syria has been restored after its most recent disruption.
Unlike the blackout from a week ago, this one only lasted for eight and a half hours, according to Internet traffic charts, according to Renesys.
Today’s blackout was blamed on a bomb going off north of Damascus that cu... |
15 May 2013
15:18 GMT |
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Internet access has again been cut off in Syria, barely a week after the last country-wide outrage. While the government blamed cut internet cables for the problems the last time around, the ongoing and increasingly bloody civil conflict in the country is to blame. The government doesn't want rebels using the i... |
15 May 2013
11:49 GMT |
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Some 24 hours ago, Syria dropped off the Internet map, with all communication to and from the country cut off.
It isn’t the first time this happens in Syria, and it happened in Egypt as well. It's unfortunately becoming a standard response for tyrannical regimes in times of crisis.
But connectivity seems to b... |
8 May 2013
11:26 GMT |
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Syria has disappeared from the Internet once more. The event started at about 18:45 UTC, when OpenDNS resolvers noticed a significant drop in traffic from Syria. According to a chart, the Internet connection has dropped suddenly and the only remaining outbound traffic seems to be generated by DNS servers trying t... |
8 May 2013
01:59 GMT |
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The Syrian Electronic Army, the hacker group that supports the Syrian regime, has hijacked the Twitter account of FRANCE 24 Arabia, and the one of Les Observateurs.
It’s worth noting that Les Observateurs is the site of FRANCE 24 which covers the news through an international network of observers who sub... |
5 March 2013
03:05 GMT |
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A lot of people are against the current Syrian regime, which they accuse of murdering innocent people. Cybercriminals have been relying on this in an effort to steal the email account credentials of users who support the Syrian opposition. Back in December, Symantec experts identified a phishing website which ... |
5 February 2013
04:59 GMT |
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The Syrian government has been ordered to pay $1 billion (€741 million) in damages to victims of two 1985 terrorist attacks.
Two shootings took place in separate airports, in Rome and Vienna. Both are linked to Syria, a US Magistrate Judge rules.
They would not have happened “without Syria’s direct... |
30 January 2013
03:46 GMT |
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Cybercriminals continue to leverage the conflict in Syria for their operations. One campaign, which targets hotels, oil companies, and government agencies, relies on fake emails allegedly coming from Sheikh Adnan Mohammed al-Aroor, considered to be the face of the anti-government movement in Syria.
According to Syma... |
9 January 2013
16:51 GMT |
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Earlier this month, experts from Symantec have uncovered a phishing website replicating a popular social media network.
The crooks tricked users into handing over their credentials by luring them with an alleged video of a prisoner being tortured in a Syrian prison.
After being warned that the video, entitled &ldq... |
21 December 2012
05:26 GMT |
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Last week, US intelligence officials claimed to have discovered that Syria was loading components of sarin gas into bombs, possibly preparing for an attack involving chemical weapons. The US President even issued a warning, saying that the use of chemical weapons was “totally unacceptable.”
However, some... |
10 December 2012
03:48 GMT |
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Reports from Syria say that the violence is intensifying, but Internet access has been restored, at least in some parts of the country. The country's capital has Internet access and it's possible that it's working in other regions as well, though it's hard to confirm.
The Internet was shut down ... |
4 December 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Shortly after they had stopped their attacks against the Israeli government, Anonymous hackers turned their attention back to Syria. The cyberattacks were intensified after the all Internet communications were blocked.
“Anonymous will NOT allow this massive violation of the human rights of the free Syrian peop... |
3 December 2012
04:47 GMT |
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Syrians have been cut off from the world by an increasingly desperate government. With the internet gone, it's harder to convey what's happening inside to the outside world.
There have been reports that phone lines are also down, or suffering problems, but the blackout isn't as widespread as is the c... |
30 November 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Syria remains cut off from the internet in one of the blackest blackouts of its kind in history. While it's certainly not the first country to shut down the internet during times of turmoil, the government was successful in blocking all internet communications to and from the country, on a scale never before see... |
30 November 2012
04:44 GMT |
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Syria has become completely cut off from the internet, reports indicate that none of the country's internal IPs can be reached from the outside, meaning no one there can access any international website as well, assuming that connections still work inside the country.
"Starting at 10:26 UTC (12:26pm in Damascus... |
29 November 2012
10:45 GMT |
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Around one year ago, Bloomberg reported that an Italian company called Area SpA aided the Syrian government in installing a system that would allow the regime to intercept, scan and catalog online communications.
It was later revealed that the Italian surveillance company might have acquired some of its equipment fr... |
28 November 2012
09:05 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers have leaked one gigabyte of documents that allegedly represent the contents of internal government emails from the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The information has been published as part of the campaign that’s known as Operation Syria (OpSyria).
The documents contain all sorts of info... |
27 November 2012
10:33 GMT |
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A hacker group called GreySecurity, or GSec, has hacked into the systems of the Syrian Virtual University (svuonline.org) and has leaked the email addresses of around 700 students.
Over the past period, hackers have mostly tried to protect Syrian organizations, but it appears that some collectives don’t n... |
26 November 2012
04:37 GMT |
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The Facebook page “The Uprising of Women in the Arab World” is gaining a lot of attention recently, as one user posted a photo dubbed controversial, to say the least. In this striking shot, Dana Bakdounis has her hair cut very short. She holds up her passport, and her picture reveals she used to have lon... |
21 November 2012
08:20 GMT |
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This dramatic clip of Syrian rebels shooting down a helicopter was taken in the Syrian city of Idlib, on Wednesday.
The explosion, supposedly shot with an amateur camera, is followed by the chopper spiraling down and landing in a ball of flames, as smoke comes out of its engines.
The clip stands as testimony of th... |
18 October 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Syrian hackers, presumably backed by the government, hacked the website of Al Jazeera, defacing the site and placing a statement condemning the news organization's coverage of the Syrian uprisings.
The actual website was not hacked, rather a CDN used by Al Jazeera was breached, the organization said. A group c... |
5 September 2012
09:31 GMT |
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The developer of the DarkComet RAT has recently revealed his plans to stop working on the remote access tool because it is used for malicious purposes. However, this hasn’t prevented cybercriminals from utilizing it once again in a campaign against Syrian activists. This time, the RAT is disguised as a securit... |
16 August 2012
05:37 GMT |
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Italian journalist Tommaso De Benedetti is responsible for yet another hoax that caused a lot of waves. He created a fake Twitter account representing Russian Minister of Interior Vladimir Kolokoltsev and posted a tweet saying that Syria’s president had been killed.
Three tweets were posted yesterday from the ... |
7 August 2012
04:10 GMT |
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It appears that there’s a group of hackers with a mission to post fake Syria stories and make them appear as if they come from Reuters. The renowned news agency’s ReutersTech Twitter account was hijacked yesterday and false headlines were published.
The incident comes only days after Reuter’s websi... |
6 August 2012
04:06 GMT |
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Hackers have compromised the blogging platform of the world renowned news agency and posted a false story regarding the retreat of the Syrian Free Army.
“Reuters.com was a target of a hack on Friday,” read a message posted on Reuter’s official Twitter account.
“A false blog posting, purport... |
4 August 2012
05:01 GMT |
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A few days ago, WikiLeaks published over 2 million emails allegedly obtained from Syrian officials and organizations connected to the Assad regime. The source of the large quantity of data was unknown, but a few days ago, the Anonymous community took credit for its involvement.
According to the hackers, Anonymous an... |
9 July 2012
04:07 GMT |
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It’s not a novelty that Syrian activists are spied on. Security experts have reported on numerous occasions that the DarkComet RAT and the Xtreme RAT have been used to accomplish the task, but now researchers have found that cybercriminals have started relying on BlackShades RAT.
Just like DarkComet, BlackShad... |
21 June 2012
10:06 GMT |
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Not one month has passed since Al Arabyia’s English Facebook page was overtaken by hackers and it seems that the media company has fallen victim to cybercriminals once again. According to the organization, the Twitter and Facebook accounts of Al Arabiya News Channel were breached by unknown hackers who started... |
25 April 2012
10:50 GMT |
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We’ve seen numerous reports from security solutions firm regarding the campaigns that target Syrians. Trend Micro experts provide another example of a malicious plot, this time leveraging a so-called Skype Encription application. Advertised as a product made by IT Security Lab to encrypt communications, in rea... |
20 April 2012
08:05 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned Syrian activists to be on the lookout for malicious elements that target their Facebook and YouTube login credentials. Now the organization warns them about pieces of malware that spread the remote administration tool known as DarkComet.
Trend Micro experts de... |
6 April 2012
04:25 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warns Syrian internauts, especially those who oppose the current Syrian government, to be on the lookout for shady Facebook posts that lead to a phishing site that’s designed to steal their login credentials.
Since the Syrian government allowed the country’s Inter... |
30 March 2012
05:36 GMT |
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Hackers part of the Syrian Electronic Army managed to gain control over the official English Facebook profile of Al Arabiya, one of the Arab world’s leading news channels.
According to Al Arabyia, the company managed to regain control over the account, but not before the hackers posted fake news regarding a di... |
27 March 2012
08:56 GMT |
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Last month CNN reported that supporters of the Syrian regime developed a computer virus to spy on those who opposed the government. Trend Micro experts analyzed the DarkComet Remote Access Trojan (RAT) and revealed the way it's utilized along with its spreading mechanism.
Apparently, the malware spreads via the... |
6 March 2012
10:06 GMT |
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The official website of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations was breached and defaced by a hacker known as Dr.HaCkEr.
Cyber War News provided the message left by the hackers after defacing the AboutImages section of the Regional Office for the Near East subdomain (neareast).
In their m... |
1 March 2012
10:10 GMT |
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The famous hacktivist collective TeaMp0isoN continues to hack websites that belong to governments they consider corrupt and violent. Their latest hack’s purpose was to support the Syrian people in their fight against the local government and, as a result, they leaked tons of banking information. “Last fe... |
9 February 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Ever since Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, started to retaliate against the citizens’ protest in a violent manner, Anonymous hacktivists from all over the world began showing their involvement.
Their latest target is the site of the Ministry of Public Administration, from which they managed to obtain ... |
6 February 2012
09:17 GMT |
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The Syrian government has moved to ban Apple’s iPhone because of its use as a social platform to share images and videos documenting the violence unfolding in the country.Obviously, protesters are fighting the effort and Abdulfattah 'John' Jandali is chiming in to show his solidarity with the Syrian S... |
5 December 2011
05:39 GMT |
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In response to Anonymous defacing the Syrian Ministry of Defence website late last week, a group of hackers broke into Anon Plus and left a message on its home page.Anonymous hacktivists hijacked mod.gov.sy over the weekend to leave an encouragement message for Syrian pro-democracy protesters and call on the country&... |
9 August 2011
05:08 GMT |
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Anonymous has broken into the website of the Syrian Ministry of Defense and left an encouragement message for the pro-democracy protesters on its home page.People who accessed the mod.gov.sy website over the weekend saw an image depicting the Iranian flag together with the Anonymous logo and a message in English and ... |
8 August 2011
04:02 GMT |
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The Syrian government is trying to identify activists who use social media to coordinate protests by orchestrating nation-wide man-in-the-middle attacks.The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has received several reports from Syrian users who spotted SSL errors when trying to access Facebook over HTTPS.The er... |
6 May 2011
07:01 GMT |
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According to the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), traces of undeclared and illegal man-made uranium have been found in a small teaching reactor in Damascus, Syria. This is the second time when off-the-books uranium is found in the Middle Eastern nation, with previous traces identifi... |
8 June 2009
06:43 GMT |
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We all know Facebook is extremely popular when it comes to the number of Internet users accessing its webpage. Alexa placed Facebook on position number 7, while compete.com estimates the social networking service has almost 30 million visitors per month. Impressive, isn't it? Certainly yes, but this popularity ... |
10 December 2007
06:12 GMT |
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