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ONI Blog: Stuxnet-Flame Connection Highlights the Rise of State-Sanctioned Cyberweaponry
Researchers at the Kaspersky Lab in Russia are reporting that the destructive malware known as Flame, a bug that has been infecting computers in Iran and elsewhere, is now being tied to the other superbug dubbed Stuxnet, the computer bug suspected of...
- Posted on 12/Jun/2012; tagged in Iran, United States of America, Israel, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Surveillance, Cybercrime and security
ONI Blog: $17M Lawsuit Filed Against Baidu for Censorship
The news recently surfaced that group of eight Chinese writers in New York filed a lawsuit in May against Baidu for complying with government policies to censor their writing, Bloomberg reports. They claim that the search engine banned their writings supporting...
- Posted on 26/Apr/2012; tagged in China, United States of America, United States/Canada, Asia, Surveillance
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: April 20, 2012
Google co-founder Sergey Brin criticized China, Iran, entertainment companies, and Facebook for obstructing the openness of the Internet. He specifically targeted oppressive policy measures to censor content and the fact that Facebook's platform remains closed to Google's search crawls.
Contemporary artist and...
- Posted on 20/Apr/2012; tagged in China, United States of America, Pakistan, United States/Canada, Asia, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Sergey Brin criticizes China, Hollywood in interview on web freedom
In an exclusive interview with The Guardian UK, Google co-founder Sergey Brin criticized governments, companies, and industries for threatening free Internet activity. He called attention to China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and other countries with restrictive Internet policies as threats to the...
- Posted on 18/Apr/2012; tagged in China, United States of America, United States/Canada, Asia, Political filtering
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: April 13, 2012
Iran's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has denied that they are planning a domestic intranet. In a statement, they claimed that rumors about an intranet were the result of hostile propaganda from the west.
Major software and Internet companies have ...
- Posted on 14/Apr/2012; tagged in China, Iran, United States of America, United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Big Internet Companies Back CISPA
This week, media outlets reported that major software and technology companies have come public with their support of the CISPA proposal recently laid out on the Congressional table, which would increase the power of the US government to monitor online communications....
- Posted on 13/Apr/2012; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Legislation, Political filtering
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: April 6, 2012
The House of Representatives proposed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. In what critics call the sequel to SOPA and PIPA, the bill if passed would allow Congress to circumvent privacy laws and monitor private Internet activity in attempts to...
- Posted on 06/Apr/2012; tagged in China, United States of America, United States/Canada, Asia, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: CISPA Threatens Online Freedom
Media organizations have been in an uproar over the newly proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) put forth by the House of Representatives. The proposal, named H.R. 3523 and intended to protect individuals from cyberattacks, falls victim to the same...
- Posted on 05/Apr/2012; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Legislation, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Arizona Passes Bill Targeting "Annoying" and "Offensive" Online Speech
Arizona's extension of a bill targeted toward "annoying" and "offensive" telephone solicitation may have censoring effects on the Internet. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has drawn attention to Arizona's passage of House Bill 2549. The bill, originally intended to combat...
ONI Blog: Microsoft Accused of Censorship for Blocking Pirate Bay Links
Microsoft has banned links that advertise the Pirate Bay on Windows Live Messenger. Torrentfreak reports that any Live Messenger user who tries to send a chat with a Pirate Bay link will receive a message saying that the link has not...
- Posted on 02/Apr/2012; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Copyright, Social filtering
