Egypt authorities have blocked many social networking sites – including Twitter, Facebook – in an effort to contain any news coming out of the country, as riots escalate. Meanwhile, the group Anonymous have threatened denial-of-service attacks on the Egyptian government over its censorship.
Topic: Iran
Twitter hacked by “cyber army” from Iran
Reports are coming in that Twitter had been hacked with a message from a supposed group called the “Iranian Cyber Army”, with Twitter admitting that their DNS records were compromised – allowing the group to deface the site with the following message:
Yahoo alleged to have Iran names of 200,000 bloggers during protests
This post has been updated. A new report has claimed that Yahoo had collaborated with the Iranian regime during the election protests that happened in the country in June, passing emails and personal information (i.e. names) of some 200,000 users living in the country.
Facebook, Google launch Persian language support
With Twitter being one of the forefronts of informative sources that allowed us to keep up what is happening after the election; both Google and Facebook have announced that they have opened up support for the Persian language, also known as Farsi.
Iran blocks Facebook as opponent uses it to gain votes in election
The Iranian government has blocked the popular social networking website Facebook in an apparent attempt, to many critics, to silence his opposition, especially one who made it a campaign tool, as the country prepares itself for an election next month.
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