Following the mass-blocking of millions of IP addresses in the battle against Telegram, Roskomnadzor, the Russian internet regulator, is now looking at Facebook. The head of the regulating body of telecommunications, Alexandr Zharov, released a statement in which he expresses their intention to ‘probe’ the social site before the year …
Read More »Opera is Retiring its Free VPN for Android & iOS
The Toronto-based company has recently announced that they will be closing Opera VPN on Android and iOS devices on the 30th of April. The announcement clearly makes the VPN’s Viking mascot, Olaf, sad. Read the announcement at their site: https://www.operavpn.com The mobile application for Opera VPN was first made available …
Read More »China Introduces New Rules in a Bid to Tighten Internet Censorship
Authorities in China are introducing a set of new regulations that many see as a way of tightening internet censorship practices in the country. The CPC, the ruling party in the country, has published a set of new regulations after what it describes as a long process of public consultations. …
Read More »Signal Seeks to Silence Government Censorship in Egypt
Signal, the popular messaging service that allows users to communicate using end-to-end encryption methods is set to develop new features to defeat government censorship. Announcing the new plans, the company behind the app, Open Whispers said that it had noted that some states had developed new methods of blocking Signal. …
Read More »3d Printing Technology is at Risk According to a Research
Almost everything is connecting to a network nowadays can now be hacked. A new study from the University of California, Irvine, has revealed that the source code of any 3D printer could be enough to compromise valuable intellectual property, allowing cyber hackers to reverse engineer and re-create 3D printed objects …
Read More »Sophisticated Attackers Hacked Ukrainian Electric Grid
A U.S Research released a report on Thursday after working on the blackout of the sizeable part of the Ukrainian national power grid, saying that this attack was highly sophisticated and well coordinated. On Dec 23, the first cyber attacks to take down such a sizeable part of the power …
Read More »Anonymous Plan DDoS Attack on Israeli Military in Protest
Hacktivist collective Anonymous have announced plans to attack Israeli military websites, including those of the military, in response to the ongoing detention of Mohammed Al-Qeeq, a Palestinian journalist detained on charges that he has connections with terrorist organizations. Al-Qeeq, a reporter for the Saudi own TV station Al Majd, was …
Read More »Sony Hackers Still Active, ‘Darkhotel’ Checks Out Of Hotel Hacking
Even though many countries have segments of their law enforcement agencies specializing only in cyber-attacks and the capture of the criminals who take part in them, isn’t it strange how many of these attacks in fact go unpunished. For instance, one of these attacks was targeted at SONY during 2014 …
Read More »The Obama Administration Vows To Strengthen Cyber-security – asks for a donation of $19 billion
Cyber attacks and data breaches have become the day to day occurrences. So, to curb this daily dosage of cyber-attacks, the White House has asked from the Congress a donation of $19 billion in order to strengthen the walls of security that can protect U.S. agencies from this constant barrage of …
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