Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir, the Head of the Department of Foreign Relations, on Sunday hosted a meeting with the diplomatic corps and other foreign representatives to reflect on and discuss key events in 2012. Minister Bakir reflected ...
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Students at a military graduate school in California are mining social media with new methods that may change the way the armed forces collect intelligence overseas. Students and researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have tackled ...
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The annual summit of Arab monarchs in the Gulf opened in Manama on December 24th Monday with a call for closer economic integration and unity in the face of the turmoil which has swept much of the Middle East. Mr King Hamad of host ...
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Internet access in Syria has been shut off nationwide, and network watchers Akamai and Renesys have issued charts illustrating the dramatic traffic collapse. RELATED: Anatomy of an Internet blackout Syria has experienced partial ...
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Internet and mobile communications were shut down on Thursday morning in war-torn Syria. Renesys Corp., a global Internet monitoring firm, earlier today reported a "major outage" in Syria, and added that a kill switch had been thrown ...
New software from Web security specialists Blue Coat Systems allows companies to restrict what employees can do on their cellphones while logged into the corporate Wi-Fi. The software, which works with Blue Coat's ProxySG Web filtering ...
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Whistle-blowing site Wikileaks on Thursday released the Syria Files, a database of more than 2.4 million emails to and from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012. The ...
AFP & AP reported that an Italian engineer has been kidnapped in Syria along with two other workers from at the Hmisho steel plant in the port city of Latakia. Italian media named the engineer as Mr Mario Belluomo from Catania in Sicily, ...
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Internet access in Syria has been shut off nationwide, and network watchers Akamai and Renesys have issued charts illustrating the dramatic traffic collapse. Syria has experienced partial blackouts this year, but this nationwide blackout ...
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In a somewhat ironic turn of events, a telecom company based in China, a country famous for Internet censorship, has become the primary means of Internet access for people looking to get information out of war-torn Syria. An analysis of ...
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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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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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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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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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