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Syria Suffered Another Internet and Mobile Communications Outage That Lasted for 20 Hours
May 10, 2013Syria suffered another Internet and mobile communications outage that lasted for about 20 hours. Service was restored earlier on Wednesday. The Syrian government earlier today blamed the?Internet blackout, which had gone into its second ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Internet Access in Syria Has Been Shut off Nationwide
Dec 26, 2012Internet 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 ...
Tags: Internet access, Syria, network, Akamai, Renesys
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Internet and Mobile Communications Were Shut Down in War-Torn Syria
Dec 26, 2012Internet 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 ...
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Monday, 9 July, Was Supposed to Be 'internet Doomsday'
Dec 24, 2012Monday, 9 July, was supposed to be 'Internet Doomsday' when the US' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was to shut down servers associated with the DNSChanger malware. As a result, computers infected with this threat were to be cut off ...
Tags: USA, DNSChanger malware, FBI, computer
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Internet Access in Syria Has Been Shut off Nationwide
Dec 20, 2012Internet 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 ...
Tags: internet blackout, Syrian internet blackout, Internet, cellphone networks
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A Group of Activists Have Banded Together to Protect The Internet
Dec 20, 2012A group of activists have banded together to protect the Internet from what they see as bad legislation, with a focus initially on copyright enforcement proposals. Members of the new Internet Defense League hope they can harness the ...
Tags: Internet, bad legislation, copyright enforcement proposals
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Web Hosting Providers Have Been Hosting Official Syrian Government Websites
Dec 19, 2012Web 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 ...
Tags: internet blackout, Syria, US sanctions, Web hosting
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Internet Access in War-Torn Syria Appears to Be for The Most Part Restored on Saturday
Dec 18, 2012After 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 ...
Tags: cyber war, highlightedpost, internet blackout, Middle East, Syria
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Internet Access in War-Torn Syria Appears to Be for The Most Part Restored
Dec 1, 2012After 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 ...
Tags: Internet, Internet-monitoring service, Telecom, Google
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Jimmy Wales Launched Campaign with Guardian on Change to Stop Extradition of UK Student
Jun 25, 2012Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has launched a campaign with the Guardian on Change.org to stop the extradition to the US of Richard O'Dwyer, a 24-year-old UK student. Change.org is described as a platform for social change, enabling ...
Tags: Wikipedia, website, web servers, internet