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Screenshot Activists in Syria are reporting that hacker group "Syrian Electronic Army" which is affiliated with the Syrian regime is using phishing tactics on Facebook to steal users emails and passwords. The scam uses an interesting hot story with a fake link often like: http://facebook.com-video-php-v222423423.homsrev.webgoof.com/video/video.ph...
Screenshot General  Michael Hayden, United States Air Force (USAF), Retired, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Deputy Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) is the keynote speaker at Black Hat Abu Dhabi.  He will share his insights on “cyber security and cyber threats in a changing world”. lack Hat, the world’s lead...
Screenshot The website of a French weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo has been hacked the responsibility of the attack was taken by Turkish hackers in retaliation for posting insulting drawings of prophet Mohammad peace be upon him. The offices of the newspaper on question in paris was also burned down according to Aljazeera Arabic. The newspaper that sells 60,0...
Screenshot On Wednesday dozens of mental health doctors in the general secretary of mental health in Cairo Egypt protested in front of Abasia hospital against transferring Dr. Basma El Aziz manager of media at the secretary to investigation, after she issued a statement that rejected transferring political activists and those with opposing opinion to ment...
Screenshot Tech bloggers and the media in the recent weeks were busy pointing out the conflict of interest TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington and his the blog standing as he has founded a Venture Capital fund "Crunch Fund". As he would favor some startups and companies he funds over the others. But that was not the only conflict of interest the site su...
Screenshot There are some controversy about the role Wikileaks has played in the recent Arab Awaking or the Arab Spring that ousted 3 tyrants so far. However today the role has become clear, as around 200 military veterans and activists demonstrated in front of the US embassy in Amman, Jordan. The first demo in front of the embassy in Amman since 25 year...
Screenshot US government keeps talking about its values of democracy, freedom in general and freedom of press. But when it comes to exposing their own crimes or publishing views of the "other side", freedom of press is not anymore free and one sided view should be the only one "beamed." A confidential US cables from US embassy in Doha, Qatar where Aljazeer...
Screenshot A US diplomatic cable sent from US embassy in Amman and published on Wikileaks this week discussed Jordan’s IT sector status and plans after Yahoo acquisition of Jordanian portal Maktoob. The cables dates in 10/15/2009 said that Yahoo maktoob acquisition has generated excitement in the country about Jordan's future as a regional IT hub. The Em...
Screenshot A US diplomatic Cabal classified as "C O N F I D E N T I A L" and sent from the American embassy in Tunis published on Wikileaks this week, disclose some details of the agreement between Microsoft and ousted regime of Zain Al Abdin Bin Ali which was signed in July 2006, Microsoft did not disclose the full details of the agrement but the cable...
Screenshot Update: English version fo the sites is back, Arabic site Tawhed.ws is still not accessible in Jordan. Update 2: one commenter is claming he is in Jordan and the site is accesible, however he is only one claiming so, if you are in Jordan please let us know if tawhed.ws opens with you. After testing in several IPs from Jordan we found that ta...
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