Syria
Country Profile: Syria
Background
In Syria, the media is primarily owned and controlled by the government and the ruling Baath party. Criticism of the president and his family is not allowed, journalists practice self-censorship, and foreign reporters rarely get accreditation.“Country Profile: Syria,” BBC News, March 10,...
- Posted on 07/Aug/2009; tagged in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Syria
ONI Blog: CPJ Ranks Ten Most Censored Countries
In preparation for World Press Freedom Day, the Committee to Protect Journalists published its findings on the most censored countries in the world. The top three countries with the most press restrictions and least access to media information were revealed to...
- Posted on 03/May/2012; tagged in Asia, Belarus, Burma, Circumvention, Cuba, Europe, Guinea, Guinea, Internet tools filtering, Iran, Latin America, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Saudi Arabia, Social filtering, Sub-Saharan Africa, Surveillance, Syria, Threats to the Open Net, Uzbekistan
ONI Blog: Behind Blue Coat: Investigations of commercial filtering in Syria and Burma
There is growing concern about the use of commercial filtering and surveillance technology in countries that regularly restrict Internet content and violate human rights. Considerable attention has been focused in recent weeks on Syria, particularly following the Syrian regime’s violent crackdown against...
- Posted on 09/Nov/2011; tagged in Asia, Burma, Filtering tech and software, Human rights, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Publications, Surveillance, Syria
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: November 4, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
- Posted on 04/Nov/2011; tagged in Asia, China, Cybercrime and security, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Gaza and the West Bank, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Syria, Take-down, Threats to the Open Net, United Kingdom, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: New Data Added to ONI’s Global Timeline of YouTube Censorship
The OpenNet Initiative is excited to announce the addition of a full year of new data to its YouTube social media filtering timeline. "YouTube Censored: a Recent History" allows users to access a detailed visual account of when and where YouTube...
- Posted on 21/Jul/2011; tagged in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Social filtering, Syria, Tunisia, United Kingdom
ONI Blog: New Report on the Syrian Electronic Army
The OpenNet Initiative is pleased to share a report authored by the Information Warfare Monitor, a sister organization of ONI, on the recent activities of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a group of pro-government computer hackers that openly attack Syrian...
- Posted on 29/Jun/2011; tagged in Cybercrime and security, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Syria
Page: Syrian Electronic Army: Disruptive Attacks and Hyped Targets
Crossposted from the InfoWar Monitor.
Introduction
In The Emergence of Open and Organized Pro-Government Cyber Attacks in the Middle East: The Case of the Syrian Electronic Army, the Information Warfare Monitor’s Helmi Noman started documenting the activities of the Syrian...
- Posted on 29/Jun/2011; tagged in Cybercrime and security, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Syria
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: June 3, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
ONI Blog: Syria goes mostly offline as protests intensify
Renesys is reporting that as of 3:35 UTC (6:35 local time) on Friday, June 3, the majority of Syrian networks were disconnected from the global Internet. A graph shows the dramatic drop in reachable networks:
Renesys documented...
- Posted on 03/Jun/2011; tagged in Conflict and security filtering, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Syria
ONI Blog: New Report on Pro-Government Hackers in the Middle East
The OpenNet Initiative is pleased to share a report authored by Helmi Noman on the rise of the Syrian Electronic Army, a group of pro-government computer hackers that are actively targeting political opposition and Western websites:
Since the beginning of the popular uprisings...
- Posted on 31/May/2011; tagged in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Syria
