Air Strikes on ISIS given the Green Light Signal by Obama


President Obama is taking the bull by the horns. He is on the offensive and wants to counter the strongholds of the radical Islamic terrorist group called ISIS in Syria.Although the chief...

YouTube Ban Follows Twitter Blockage in Turkey


It was Twitter a week ago and now YouTube has joined its ranks. Before this Prime Minister Erdogan had vowed to ban Facebook and the other online social sites. He spoke of how he would not allow...

Syrian Refugee Tech Startup Finds Sanctuary In London


Business was starting to go well for the tech start-up Rootal in 2011, until a car bomb went off just blocks from its Damascus headquarters. Now, more than two years after its founder ended up on the...
    






Syria Started Destroying its Chemical Weapons


The complete demolition of Syrian chemical weapons has started. Overseen by experts of an international hue, this process has delayed a US strike. The Syrian civil war has seen so many killed in cold...

Viber support page hacked by Syrian Electronic Army, most user info remains safe

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The Syrian Electronic Army isn't happy with VoIP app developers as of late -- following an attack against Tango last week, the politically motivated hacking group has compromised Viber's support page. The SEA claims to have downloaded database backups from Viber that include phone numbers, device IDs and push notification tokens. However, the company believes that the attack was largely harmless for regular customers; SEA's team got access to top-level support systems, but not the all-important user databases. They're kept in a system that can't be reached by attacks like these, according to Viber. While that news is reassuring, we'd advise playing it safe by watching for any suspicious account activity.

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Via: TechCrunch

Source: AppleSpot (translated)

Syria back online after a nearly day-long internet blackout

It seems unlikely that it's the last time the country will be cut off from the internet given its past history, but Syria does now appear to be back online following a nationwide blackout that began yesterday afternoon. As the BBC reports, state-run media in the country had attributed the problem to a "fault in optical fibre cables," but most have cast doubt on those claims, suggesting instead that it's much more likely the blackout was the result of a deliberate shutdown by the government.

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Via: @ckanal (Twitter)

Source: BBC

The entire nation of Syria goes offline yet again

The entire country of Syria goes offline yet again

Entire countries can go offline. Syria's done it before, and now it appears that the troubled nation has dropped its web connection again, according to Google's Transparency Report and other online sources. The outage appears to have begun just before 3PM ET, according to Google's report, and has yet to be resolved nearly three hours later. It's not entirely clear what's caused the outage, but based on educated speculation surrounding previous incidents, it wouldn't be out of the question to conclude that the government was behind this latest interruption. For now, the country remains in the dark -- we'll update this post just as soon as that's resolved.

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Via: Google+

Source: Google Transparency Report