Web hosting providers from the U.S., Canada and other Western nations have been hosting official Syrian government websites, in violation of sanction orders from the U.S. and other governments, according to a Canadian Web research ...
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The U.S. on Thursday said it ordered sanctions against Iran's Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Reza Taghipour, and other entities and persons responsible for engaging in censorship in their country. Taghipour is ...
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By Gary Sandiford,Olive Group's Dubai based assessments manager.Olive Group is a leading provider of security and technology solutions and has operated continuously in Iraq since 2003. Overview Olive Groups Iraq statistics are ...
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Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's national energy company, said on Sunday it had repaired 30,000 workstations infected with a malicious virus earlier this month. The eighth largest refiner in the world said its main internal networks were ...
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Israeli and Palestinian forces have taken to the Internet to accelerate their wartime propaganda via social media. As the forces continue their conflict on the ground, they’ve also launched a war of hashtags, English-language tweets ...
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Mozilla Foundation and other activist groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation have called for the release of Bassel Khartabil, an open-source developer who was detained on March 15 in the Mazzeh district of Damascus in a wave of ...
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Hewlett-Packard said in a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it had determined that its products were procured from a partner that was not informed that their ultimate destination was Syria. HP was responding to a ...
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After a two-day outage, Internet access in war-torn Syria appears to be for the most part restored on Saturday, according to reports from several sources. “Renesys confirms a largely complete restoration of the Syrian Internet this ...
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The Internet, long viewed as a tool to expand freedom, is an equally effective tool for repression. That is just as true in the United States as anywhere else. Security guru Bruce Schneier noted in a recent blog post, citing Evgeny ...
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At a roadshow in London today, Iraq sought investors for two new oil pipelines: A 2.25-million bpd line from Basra to the pumping station at Haditha, to be built on an EPC (engineer, procure and construct) contract; and,A 750,000- to ...
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A recent ‘Top Industries in the MENA’ survey conducted by Bayt.com and YouGov, a research and consulting organisation, has revealed that the telecom industry is one of the most satisfying to work in, especially for salary ...
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The hactivist group Anonymous reacted angrily to the?Internet shutdown this week in Syria, an act attributed to the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the civil war there. Anonymous declared war on the Syrian regime, ...
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MNA reported that Iran’s electricity exports to neighboring states have increased by about 40% as the Islamic Republic is helping them overcome regular power outages. As per report, Iran has boosted its power output in recent ...
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Mr Khamis Buamim chairman of Drydocks World said that the Dubai based ship building and repair firm is looking to enter the Syrian market via a consortium of regional and possibly international partners. Mr Buamim said that he saw a lot ...
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Mr Khamis Buamim chairman of Drydocks World said that the Dubai based ship building and repair firm is looking to enter the Syrian market via a consortium of regional and possibly international partners. Mr Buamim said that he saw a lot ...
Tags: ship building and repair firm, international partners, investment