A group of Israeli hackers calling themselves Israeli Elite Force announced a world-wide campaign against Muslim cyber-terror. “Time for cyber-terrorism to end! All anti-violence hackers are called to join, we will make the terrorist pay,” the group said. A Facebook event created for the campaign links to a four-minute video the group posted on Youtube […]
On May 9, Anonymous posted a new video clip regarding an expected operation against Israel on May 25 as phase 2 of April 7 #OpIsrael. The next day “Ã Màn Mûst Fîght“, affiliated with Anonymous, created Facebook event named “#OpIsrael-Continued”; Hello World , Hello Human Rights Deffenders , Hello Israel .. We Are Anonymous . Israel […]
A hacker identifying himself as “sinchankeke”, associated with a group named “Deface Zone Indonesia”, has claimed responsibility for hacking into an Israeli website. The break-in to the website of www.ruahmidbar.co.il occurred April 5th and appeared to be an ordinary breach and defacement. Further inspection however found that the hackers planted a webpage (http://www.ruahmidbar.co.il/DDOS.php ) in the breached […]
If you want to know what kind of damage hackers – really good hackers – can do to a country, take a look at what Anonymous did to Iran. Iran’s Internet is anything but free, and a free Internet is what the international hacker group desires more than anything else. As a result, Anonymous has been […]
On March 6, faked email message was sent to different recipients in Israel, pretend to be from Israel Defense Force (IDF) origin, with the sender address idf.jets@gmail.com. The subject of the message was “jest: Israel warns soldiers of abduction” and the email itself contained no message but an attached file (RAR type) named “Israel warns […]
A new research by Kaspersky Lab has been published today (16 Aug) possibly revealing a new malware, to be known for the time being as Shamoon the Wiper. The research suggests that this is not the malware known as Wiper, which attacked the Iranian oil industry and served as the basis for the discovery of […]
The online warfare against the Syrian regime has been taken up a notch. Alongside an increase in the physical warfare, the battles reaching into the heart of the capital, Damascus, the elimination of the most senior members of the regime and the continuing desertions, over the past two weeks, we have seen an increase in […]
On May 23, 2012, Egypt went to the Presidential elections, in which 13 candidates competed. Only five of them (Amr Moussa, Abdel Moneim Abu al-Futuh, Mohammed Morsi, Ahmed Shafik and Hamdeen Sabahi) had active online activity on social networks. Examining the situation on Facebook in advance of the first round, it seemed that Abdel Moneim Abu […]
Free access to information and knowledge are a governmental and social challenge for any country, especially for those in the Middle East that fear that the internet may undermine the existing leadership’s legitimacy. This is a challenge to the Palestinian Authorities as well, the one in the West Bank as well as that in the […]
A research paper published at the end of 2011 foresaw a leap in the use of smart-phones in the Middle East. Iran is considered the largest market for cellular phones in the region, and the rate of penetration of smart-phones in the UAE (United Arab Emirates) market (47%) overshadows even that of the United States […]
When the revolution in Egypt, which spread throughout the Arab world, was in full stride, it seemed as if something had changed in the Islamic world and that a new era was dawning. However, now it seems that the authorities are trying once again to disconnect the country’s citizens from the rest of the world. […]
The Internet, social networks and cellular Internet have been central tools in creating protest events and even in creating the revolutions which took place during the “Arab Spring”, which has been taking place in the Middle East since 2011. These were used for creating the online events, spreading their message, inviting the people, and afterwards […]
The year 2011 was irrefutably the year of protests and revolutions that began on the social networks. It is not without good reason, that the events in Egypt were dubbed “The Facebook Revolution”, that social network being the source for creating and organizing the protests. Facebook was the online stage, from which the events tumbled […]
The Syrian government and its partisans block the Internet and close Facebook accounts but are also active on social networks. That’s how Syria fights in the on-line arena. It is not easy today to live in Syria, or to be a journalist there, or even an Internet user. On account of the dictatorial rule and in the light of […]
Lately Google has accused the country of trying to erect walls around the Internet within its borders. Of late reports have multiplied that Google is involved in a strugggle against the Kazakhstan government over this country’s authorities’ latest decision “to create limits to the Internet“. On first sight this doesn’t look good and even encourages […]
The hackers’ movement takes on the tyranny in Iran, Syria and other Islamic countries. The movement fights for justice, the nature of which it determines itself, and does everything in its power to show everybody it reigns supreme on the Internet. The activist hackers’ movement Anonymous has been on the attack again these last few […]
Recent study shows Lebanon lags behind in internet speed, progress, prompting initiatives geared toward improving internet connectivity, reducing costs. A recent study has revealed that Lebanon has one of the slowest internet connections in the world, and its citizens are extremely dissatisfied. A wave of dissent has spread throughout Lebanon in response to the spotty […]
On monday April 25th 2011 the Iran news agency Mehr reported, that Iran was the victim of a new on-line attack, after the Stuxnet offensive. This time it was attacked by a worm called Stars. According to the Iranian spokesman, the commander of the Civil Defense in the country, Iranian computer experts had identified the […]