Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: July 8th, 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 08/Jul/2011; tagged in China, Australia, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Search result removal, Human rights, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Canada lauds UAE ISP that pervasively censors political, religious, and gay and lesbian information, using Canadian software
The OpenNet Initiative has been documenting Internet censorship worldwide since 2002, including the growing use of commercial filtering products by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in non-democratic regimes.
The ONI recently published a report, authored by Helmi Noman and Jillian York,...
- Posted on 01/Jul/2011; tagged in Canada, United Arab Emirates, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Social filtering
ONI Blog: Shadows, Suitcases, and Circumvention: U.S. Plans a Mesh Network Shadow Internet in Repressive Regimes
Disclosure: The Berkman Center for Internet & Society participated in a competitive bidding process for State Department funding related to online freedom of expression.
The Obama administration is leading a State Department-funded initiative to deploy a "shadow Internet" and mobile network in...
- Posted on 29/Jun/2011; tagged in China, Iran, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Circumvention
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 Syria, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Cybercrime and security
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 Syria, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Cybercrime and security
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: June 24th, 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 24/Jun/2011; tagged in China, Tunisia, United Kingdom, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Protests mark the second anniversary of the "Twitter Revolution" in Iran
According to The Wall Street Journal, approximately 15,000 people gathered in Tehran on Sunday to commemorate the second anniversary of the the disputed presidential election of 2009, which led to the Iranian election protests and the so-called ...
- Posted on 15/Jun/2011; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Arrests and legal action, Human rights, Elections
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 Syria, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Conflict and security filtering
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 Syria, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Report: The Emergence of Open and Organized Pro-Government Cyber Attacks in the Middle East: The Case of the Syrian Electronic Army
Authored by Helmi Noman.
Noman is a Senior Researcher at the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs (University of Toronto), and a Research Affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University.
Crossposted from the InfoWar Monitor.
Introduction
Since the...
- Posted on 31/May/2011; tagged in Syria, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
