As A U.S companies Google has been in compliance with US export controls and sanctions programs against countries that does not follow the US policy.
In Syria all google software and google code was blocked in the country due to those US government sanctions programs.
We at ArabCrunch wrote about how these sanctions affect the average i...


Syrian Electronic Army a hacker group affiliated with Bashar Al Asad regime has claimed responsibility for taking down Linkedin Blog http://blog.linkedin.com/.
As of writing this post Linkedin in blog is down.
This is the zone-h info of the hack....
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...
We have great news, Anas Marwai has been freed in Syria according to Ardriod blog post. Anas Marwai founded Ardroid that specialize with Arabic news and views about Android.
Anas Marwai was arrested in July 2011 with no charges, by the security forces in Syria, obviously for political freedoms.
We do not know if Anas was tortured, this is...
It was a dream to me, it was a dream to see Arab corrupt tyrants to fall one after the other. However this comes with a price. First our friend Slim Amumu was arrested in Tunisia (now he is a minister) second Wael Ghonim was arrested in Egypt to be released later. Now the turn is for Syria. Anas Marawai founder of popular Arabic android blog Ardr...
Syrian animation startup OX Animation has launched Anmish, a do-it-your-self video animation creation.
On Anmish users can choose from various ready-made collection of caricatures of famous figures in the world to create animations. After choosing the caricature you can record a voice over and play with the different emotions for the cha...
Amid growing protests in most syrian cities against the regime of Bashar al Asad, Syrian authorities have shut down the Internet in the country, sources told ArabCrunch.
You can look at Google Transparency Report where you see a drop in traffic to all google services up to zero.
We do not know what are the exact reason behind shutting dow...
It seems that Syrian secret police or "Mukhabrat" is behind issuing forged facebook's security certificate in Syria when accessing via https connection or man in the middle attack, which enables them to get users password and spy on Syrian facebook users' activities.
This event happened around a week ago. users in Syria are adviced not to lo...
As the syrian revolution grow, and the number of people killed by the security forces of the regime in Syria grow activists are resorting to new methods tho show solidarity with the cities that revolted against the regime of Bashar Al Asad.
Syrian Parliament website has been hacked by those hacktivists, the site now displays a banner that ...
The recently announced Egyptian Mossad Agent Tariq Abdel Razaq Hassan reveled that the Mossad revealed that he used several websites to announce phony telecom jobs targeting Syrian and Lebanese in order to recruit them to join the Mossad.
According to Egyptian newspaper Alyoum Alsabe , Tariq Abdel Razaq Hassan said he joined the Mossad via... 


