On August 5, 2010, news articles reported that a new website presenting anti-Semitic Holocaust cartoons was launched in Iran. The site, which is called holocartoons, is a simple Flash presentation operating in Persian, English and Arabic, and already has a page in Wikipedia. The site is actually a 54-page book in which visitors can browse, […]
According to news published in English and Persian on July 25, the Wikipedia free encyclopedia website was blocked in Iran and could not be accessed. Users tryng to acess the website are having this blockpage stating “By refering to the law concerning computer related misdeeds (crimes) access to this site is not available.” Screenshot of the block page. An investigation […]
Research conducted earlier this year examined the extent of Internet filtering in Arab countries made using Bing search engine of Microsoft for terms with a sexual orientation. Bing search engine is active in 41 languages and it offers a Web filtering system based on keywords entered into the system in advance, according to different countries. […]
On June 28, 2010 Skype announced on its blog the opening of the company’s first headquarters in the Middle East and Africa which will be located in Manama, Bahrain’s capital. Rouzbeh Pasha, Business Development Manager for the Middle East region, will lead the company’s operations in the region. The announcement was published in a joint […]
On July 2010 an article was published which received no proper attention so far – for the first time the Israeli police ordered Internet Service providers to block access to websites. The news was posted on ‘Haaretz’ websites in Hebrew and English as well as on ‘Globes‘, but without significant reference, if any, at other […]
Two weeks ago, when police directive was published for the first time in Israel,instructing the Internet providers to block access to some gambling websites, the economic Committee of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) approved, on July 13th, a bill requiring Internet service providers to inform their clients about the dangers of the Internet and to provide […]
Online violence, exploitation and dependency information age many of the invited countries and companies in information technology to cause harm the interests of the victim the other hand, gain the benefit for the attacker. So by following the various attacks against computers using the victim’s computer. Disabling injury to the target computer as well as […]
In the second half of May 2010, the entire Facebook domain was blocked in Bangladesh and Pakistan mainly because of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad posted on it. On May 19, the court in Pakistan ordered to block Facebook due to a competition in which people were encouraged to upload cartoons of Prophet Muhammad; the order […]
June 12, 2010, the anniversary of Iranian presidential elections, passed in complete silence, contrary to last year events, when violent clashes with security forces broke out after the election results became known. Those clashes were documented in online social networks, which have become the main tool for documenting the events. It seems that this time, […]
In the first half of June 2010, reports indicated that the authorities in Turkey began to expand the blockage imposed on Google services. In the past, only YouTube was blocked. However, now it was officially announced by the Turkish telecommunications authority that access was blocked to IP addresses of a variety of Google services. No […]
The website of the Israeli singer, Izhar Ashdot (http://www.ashdot.co.il), was hacked by Turkish hacker named A-G- C, which, along the Turkish flag, set the following sentence; Hacked By A-G- C Turkish Attacker One Turk Against The World I Fuck israil I Fuck You mother
During June 1, 2010, the second day after the takeover of the Turkish flotilla, hacking activity against Israeli sites increased, and as a result, more sites were being attacked and vandalized. Most of this activity is documented below: Madconfig – http://jbi.cafetorah.com, http://fotos-de-jerusalem.com, http://israel-images.com, http://lovetotheneedy.co.il 1923turk – http://www.carpetcleaning.co.il, http://www.livne-natan.co.il, http://www.globerehovot.co.il, http://www.imi.org.il/site Netuzman Hack Team – http://raichman.co.il […]
History in the Internet world, a revolution in the Arab online arena; for the first time, there are extensions of non-Latin letters (IDN). As of May 5, three new suffixes are active in Arabic for Saudi Arabia, Egypt and United Arab Emirates. A message was posted by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) […]
Market penetration of cellular technology in the Middle East was impeded by a variety of barriers typical to the region: a conservative outlook, centralized authority structures, political limitations imposed on the freedom of expression, a weak technological infrastructure, and more. For years, most of the region’s countries were at the bottom of the global list […]
The internet becomes a separate, secretive and distinct media, and, to a greater extent, a replacement to the official, government controlled media. The internet and the changing relationship between government and its citizens in the Middle East. During the 1970s, the last days of the reign of Shah Pahlavi in Iran, the forbidden sermons and […]
Iran is one of the most insular and repressive countries in terms of human rights, to the point that its leader was recently awarded the dubious honor of Dictator of the Year for 2009.[1] Iran consistently ranks on the list of countries deemed “enemies of the internet”[2] and is one of the most dangerous places […]
In its second decade in the Middle East, the Internet has been increasingly challenging many of the region’s governments – specifically dictatorships that impose strict limitations on civil freedoms. It has brought about the formation of pressure groups for social and political change on FaceBook, allowed for real-time coverage of events through Twitter and YouTube […]
The website of ‘The Israeli Center for Computer Memories‘ was hacked by Turkish hackers, who placed the following on the homepage: Hacked by THE-AjaN TR DOG ISRAEL TURK HACKERS