Cybercrime and security
ONI Blog: Rupert Murdoch Lashes Out Against Obama and Google About Piracy on Twitter
When Rupert Mordoch joined Twitter shortly after New Year's, he immediately took advantage of his 100,000-plus following and took to his feed to sharply criticize the Obama administration and Google over piracy concerns. Over the weekend, several "rants" appeared that...
- Posted on 20/Jan/2012; tagged in Cybercrime and security, United States/Canada
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: US Intelligence Report Calls China and Russia Biggest Cyber Espionage Threats
A recently released report by the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive labels China the “world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage,” according to the Council of Foreign Relations. The report also calls Russia one of the biggest cyber...
- Posted on 03/Nov/2011; tagged in Asia, China, Cybercrime and security, Europe, Russia, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: August 5, 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 05/Aug/2011; tagged in Asia, Copyright, Cybercrime and security, Europe, Political filtering, United Kingdom, United States/Canada
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 17th, 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 17/Jun/2011; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Asia, Canada, Circumvention, Cybercrime and security, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Geolocational Filtering, Iran, Malaysia, Qatar, Threats to the Open Net, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: United States Faces Legal Challenges to Domain Name Seizures
Puerto 80 Projects, owner of one of Spain’s most popular websites, is suing the United States government for seizing their domains, rojadirecta.com and rojadirecta.org.
These sites were seized on January 31st, 2011 as part of “Operation in Our Sites,” an...
- Posted on 17/Jun/2011; tagged in Cybercrime and security, Take-down, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: China Rejects Google's Phishing Attempt Claims, Accuses Google of "Pandering"
Over the last week, conflict between Google and China over alleged phishing attempts originating from China has escalated, with the People's Daily accusing Google of having "ulterior motives" and "pandering."
On June 1st, Google’s official blog revealed that a “campaign to...
ONI Blog: McAfee Ranks the World’s Most Dangerous Domains
Internet virus protection producer and security company McAfee recently released their “Mapping the Mal Web” report for 2010. In their calculation of dangerous websites, McAfee took into account characteristics such as whether the site uses spyware pop-ups, whether it installs...
- Posted on 26/Oct/2010; tagged in Cybercrime and security, DNS tampering
