According to reports from June 26, 2017, several government websites in Ohio, Maryland, Washington and New York were hacked and defaced by Algerian hackers, probably supporters of ISIS calling themselves Team System DZ. Among the hacked and defaced websites were the Ohio governor’s site, which was defaced with pro-ISIS messages indicating that the act was […]
The Telecom Regulation Authority (TRA) in the United Arab Emirates released a warning against the new update of Snapchat, called Snap Map. The update allows users to see the location of their friends on a map and find reports from all over the world, while examining places where there is lively activity, through “heat maps”. […]
On May 21, 2017, the Minister of Communication Technologies and Digital Economy in Tunisia announced that PayPal would begin providing its services in Tunisia even before this June. So far, the PayPal service was not active in Tunisia, raising not only questions on the subject in the company website, but also a protest campaign which […]
According to reports from November 28, 2016, a 19-year-old was arrested in Melbourne, Australia, due to breaking into the Air Traffic Control and sending 16 unauthorized transmissions to pilots between September 3 and November 5 through radio channels dedicated to air traffic officials. This led to the cancellation of the landing of one of the […]
Internet users in various countries in the Middle East experienced Internet outages and disconnections from time to time for various reasons. During the years of fighting in Syria, we have witnessed numerous times of disconnections, which usually lasted several hours, and frequently changing. Perhaps this is activity of the authorities and may be the result […]
On June 26th it was reported that the UAE is at the top of the MENA countries and 19th among all countries (GEDIndex) in support of entrepreneurs. In this context, and as part of the venture Vision2021, which aims to turn the country to “the Center for Global Development”, SAP company will lead the 2nd […]
A call for the singer Pharrell Williams to cancel the scheduled appearance in Israel on July 21st (despite the fact that the call stated that the show in September). Facebook page titled “Carlos Santana, Now That You Know it’s Apartheid, Do not Play Israel” calling the singer to cancel the scheduled appearance in Israel on […]
Saudi Arabia’s policy for the coming years, was given the name Vision 2030, adopted by the Council of Ministers headed by the King and was published in full on April 26th, 2016. As described Quote remarks presented at the beginning of the document describing the vision: “The first goal for our country is to become […]
On June 14th it was posted that several voices in the Egyptian Education Ministry called for disabling Web services an hour prior to the Thanaweya Amma exams which are conducted between June 5-28 and will determine for some 570 thousand high school students, their admission to various universities. This is to deal with the various […]
On June 21st, a post was published regarding the cooperation between Egypt and Oman for a regional conference dealing with cyber threats. Nispana Company active in India and UAE in the field of business intelligence has signed with the Oman CERT (OCERT) cooperation in the creation, development and management of the Fifth Regional Conference for […]
Film actor Omar bin Haider from the UAE and the local telecommunications company, DU, launched a joint initiative of “Digital Fasting” during the fasting hours of Ramadan, for the rediscovery of life without technology, whether an hour, a day or for an entire month. During the month the actor will display a number of challenges […]
On June 7th, it was announced that IBM has signed a 300 million USD agreement with Emirates Airline for providing IT services for the next decade, including data encryption close to real time as well as a system that allows different software components to communicate more effectively. On June 7th, it was reported that Injazat […]
On May 22nd, there was a publication of a report by FireEye’s company which researched targeted attacks against banks in the Middle East. The study reveals that in the first week of May, the company has identified a wave of emails that contained malicious files sent to a number of banks across the Middle East. […]
Every year towards the Ramadan fast action is being taken up, in front of Muslim audience in the occupied territories and worldwide, related to the boycott of Israeli products. On June 10th, an interview with Mahmoud Nawajaa from the BNC organization (The Palestinian National Boycott, divestment and Sanction Committee) was posted, in which he says […]
On June 2nd it was reported that Saudi Arabia has signed a deal to purchase shares of Uber worth 3.5 billion USD through the Public Investment Fund (PIF) and thus becomes a partial partner in the kingdom, and has representation on the board, something that will give Saudi Arabia impact on decisions. This transaction will […]
Israeli hacker known as zurael sTz recently issued a number of notices of burglaries committed by websites across the Middle East; On June 2nd he published claims according to which he hacked to the orders part of the Iranian airline IranAir by publishing a picture seemingly the administrator of the site. On June 1st he […]
On May 5th, it was reported that the Egyptian Cabinet approved the country’s telecommunications authority – National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) – to launch fourth-generation mobile communications for approximately 94 million subscribers to its cellular services. Minister of ICT in Egypt presented during an event the schedules to generate licenses to deploy this technology, in […]
On May 4-5 a conference took place in Tunisia – the third Middle East DNS Forum (MEDNSF 2016) organized by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and the Internet Society, in order to “build bridges between different specialists in the region and the world at large, share experience, update the audience on what […]