Yesterday I wrote and article about how Iran apparently wants to create its own in-country Internet. This move is almost unprecedented with only North Korea having done this before. In the article I discussed the situation with Internet access in these two countries and also in China, which has a reasonable open policy for web [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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WikiLeaks Reveals State Department / Mubarak YouTube Talks
The protests against President Mubarak in Egypt have escalated in the last few days now that the beleaguered president has said that while he will step down, he won’t do so until September. To try and stop protests, or at least quell them, Egypt shut down almost its entire Internet service last week and much [...]
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Did China Divert US Website Traffic?
Reuters are reporting that traffic for some “highly sensitive” US websites was briefly redirected through China. In a report by the BBC, the incident, which happened for 18 minutes last April saw China Telecom send out incorrect routing formation. There’s no confirmation on whether this was intentional or not, but it comes at a time [...]
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gHacks Editor on “Computer America” US Radio, Fri 19th Nov
Mike Halsey will be appearing on Craig Crossman’s Computer America radio show on Friday 19th November 2010. The show has been running for 19 years and is the #1 daily podcast in the US according to the New York Times. Mike will be talking about his new book “Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out” from Microsoft Press, [...]
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FBI Smashes cyber-crime ring
The FBI claims to have cracked a major cyber-crime network and made more than 100 arrests in the US according to the BBC. The suspected members worked as mules for fraudsters based in Eastern-Europe who sole around $70m from companies and consumers in the US by hacking into their computer systems. The FBI worked with police [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Right To Search Laptops To Be Limited On US Borders
The right of US border guards to search the laptops will be limited today according to a news post at news site Vnunet. The current policy in the United States poses a risk to anyone traveling to the United States. Border guards can practically search the contents of a laptop including private emails, visited websites [...]