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The Star and the Crescent (zip): On October 6th, 1973, the Jewish state of Israel was attacked by the coordinated forces of Egypt and Syria, with an additional nine Arab states actively supporting the actions of Egypt and Syria. The launch of the attack came on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, which...; Tags: Syria, Shrapnel Games Inc., Security; Software downloads 2008-02-29
Syria cracks down on dissent by blocking Facebook: Syria is blocking Facebook in an attempt to squelch dissent, Syrian activists and bloggers say. And Facebook is just the most visible part of a broad crackdown on the Internet. "Facebook helped further civil society in Syria and form civic groups outside government control....; Tags: Syria, Facebook, Reuters Ltd., Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Gender And Diversity, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2007-11-26
David Garejeli - Screensavers (exe): 3 audio-screensavers with Georgian church chants and background images of 19 pages from 20th century manuscript book. Calligraphers - Otar Megrelidze and Levan Chaganava. St. father David came to Georgia together with twelve other monks from Syria at the end or beginning of the 6th c. These 13 Syrian Fathers...; Tags: Syria, Screensaver, Georgia; Software downloads 2007-01-30
Mid East Crisis - CNC Generals Zero Hour Mod (zip): Mid East Crisis MEC is a total conversion modification for Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour. MEC transforms Zero Hour allowing you the player to play as either Israel or Syria pitted against each other in a hypothetical war. Should you choose to play as the Israelis you will have...; Tags: Syria, Mid East Crisis; Software downloads 2007-01-10

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Using mail for phishing: The standard phishing scams still catch enough people to justify the small costs and low risks involved - but there's a better way. From the bad guy's perspective traditional phishing has costs and benefits. On the cost side there's a few hundred dollars to get a million...; Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-01

Wired: The Mac Guru of Damascus: There's a neat little story in the current issue (16.05) of Wired magazine about MacBooks being stolen and recovered while traveling abroad. From The Mac Guru of Damascus in the Case of the Missing Laptops: Before my fiancée and I headed to Syria to study Arabic, we often heard...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Wired Inc., Apple MacBook, Insurance, Financial Planning, Notebooks, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-04-10
Google's proxy: Internet censorship; Schmidt's security detail: Google filed its proxy statement with the SEC on Tuesday and detailed an attempt to get the search giant to stand up to Internet censorship abroad. Google recommended shareholders vote against the effort. The Internet censorship proposal was raised by the Office of the Comptroller of New...; Tags: Shareholder, Security, Google Inc., Censorship, Internet, Government, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-25
UNESCO backs out as group names Internet Enemies: Today is Online Free Expression Day, a Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, or RSF) event that was to have been sponsored by UNESCO. But the free speech organization revealed today that UNESCO backed out. We were notified...; Tags: Borders Books & Music, UNESCO, Internet, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-03-12
Syria cracks down on dissent by blocking Facebook: Syria cracks down on dissent by blocking Facebook"Israeli penetration of our youth"Looks like Israel has more friends in the Arab world than I had imagined..Suppression of dissent does seem to be the more likely explanation. Shows once again that totalitarian societies have much more to fear from the Internet...; Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Facebook; Discussion threads 2007-11-26
Alleged smear campaigns happen every day and privacy doesn't exist: Alleged smear campaigns happen every day and privacy doesn't existWell, I still want to be able to trust Google to not let others read myemail, and be able to sue the SNOT out of them if they do let others read my email. Of course ditto for the other providers....; Tags: SECURITY, Google Inc., privacy, Privacy International; Discussion threads 2007-06-11
Intel to close Jerusalem chip plant?: Intel to close Jerusalem chip plant?Probably not a bad ideaconsidering the upcoming war with Syria and Iran.:o); Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Jerusalem, chip plant, chip, Intel Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-01-17
As UN's ITU meets, concern about its limits and potential: The International Telecommunications Union, not a union at all but the UN agency that is concerned with the Internet (and note the capital I in "Internet") and represents 191 countries and 650 companies, is meeting this week in Hong Kong but, The New York Times observes, part of the...; Tags: Internet, I.T.U., International Telecommunications Union, International, Government technology; Blog posts 2006-12-04
Chertoff: Web could be terror training camp: Chertoff: Web could be terror training campHow many "staffers"?Did I understand this correctly? 35 staffers are going to monitor a network of websites that can't even be counted, and a couple of hundred million american Internet users? Good luck.Guess it's time to declare war on the internet...but where...; Tags: Workforce management, GUESS IT, Chertoff, training, Internet, terror training camp, training camp, U.S. Citizen, government, Web; Discussion threads 2006-10-17
Trip report - Dubai: Just to set the scene, Dubai is one of seven emirates comprising the United Arab Emirates, a sovereign state; the UAE is a federation of jurisdictions with some local laws and economic regulations, and some central ones. As everyone I met stressed, the UAE is...; Tags: There&rsquo, s; Blog posts 2006-09-26
Sun worries? Let your bikini do the talking: Sun worries? Let your bikini do the talkingMessage has been deleted.ObsoleteYour information is obsolete. It turns out the blast was probably caused by a landmine placed by Hezbollah. But people don't need a reason to hate Jews.What was the purpose......in bringing this up in this talkback?Carl Rapsonstay on topicYou are...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Gaza, Palestinians, shell; Discussion threads 2006-07-26
Industry, others object to data retention: Industry, others object to data retentionA bad idea from every view point.Has ALL of the snooping since 911 caught a single terrorist? NO! The truth is our security people can't find their butts with both hands.The terrorists are winning.The US has dropped to dead even with Uganda as...; Tags: industry, e-mail; Discussion threads 2006-05-31
Justice knew Bush wiretapping illegal: Justice knew Bush wiretapping illegalI think that was a typo in Washington postThis is the part you're referring to from:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/06/AR2006020600847.html"During the daylong committee hearing, Gonzales and the senators reached as far back as eavesdropping ordered by President Washington and delved into court decisions surrounding presidential powers and the 1978 Foreign...; Tags: Gonzales; Discussion threads 2006-02-09
FBI: We're not worried about terrorist cyberattack: FBI: We're not worried about terrorist cyberattackWalk Softly & Carry a Big StickDon't JawJack. Just Shut-up & Show Me.Famous Last WordsWasn't it the Oracle dude who declared that his system was "hacker proof" a few years back? Didn't his system get hacked within a few days of that...; Tags: Federal government, FBI, terrorist cyberattack; Discussion threads 2005-12-07
Clashes precede Net governance showdown: Clashes precede Net governance showdownPerfectHow appropriate.The U.N. goes to Tunisia to hold it's World Summit on the Information Society. Where rabid censorship abounds and human rights are clearly not a priority.This provides all the reason needed to keep control of the net with ICANN in the U.S.Why even go there!There...; Tags: governance showdown, Internet; Discussion threads 2005-11-14
Snort exploit published: Snort exploit publishedAnd as was pointed out by someone elseif snort is exploited then your system has been already compromised and this is rather like shooting a headless dead man... to make sure he is dead, ya know?the potential of a snort based worm?there still lurks the potential for a...; Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Snort; Discussion threads 2005-10-26