The Iranian government, along with Iranian universities, is spending $36 million to develop a new technology called “smart filtering” which will let them strengthen internet censorship capabilities. This massive collective effort has a goal of completely, selectively, and secretly blocking content or specific applications instead of shutting an entire website...
Last month Indonesia blocked Netflix’s ever-expanding reach into their country. It was due to state-owned telecom firms that had concerns about Netflix having a business permit. This was after Netflix announced that it would be available in more than 130 countries worldwide. Telekom Indonesia, the major telecom company in...
Recently the Ugandan government took down social networking services Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Whatsapp–after claiming that these services were platforms of ill use. NTV Uganda reported that the government explained that bribes were being used to sway voters, as well as online campaigns attempting to stretch past the campaign...
A new security vulnerability in the GNU C Library (Glibc) (a core component in Linux distributions), has been uncovered by Google researchers. GNU C Library is a collection of open source code that powers thousands of applications and Linux distributions. This breach leaves nearly all Linux machines, applications, and electronic...
The Chinese government has become increasingly aggressive in its pursuits to lockdown and control users in China with their great internet firewall. Now, China’s plans to tighten web censorship will continue with a new law coming into effect next month that regulates all content published by foreign companies looking...
A new security vulnerability has been found in a popular framework that is used by a variety of Mac applications. This vulnerability exists within the Sparkle framework and leaves users open to Man-in-the-Middle attacks–an attack where the attacker relays and alters communication between two parties. Sparkle is a framework...
