You Don’t Know What You Can’t See Once again, the morning headlines are bringing new – if slightly ominous – stories of increased hack attacks. In today’s case, two different stories: the first, a growing series of Internet hacks designed to fool people about the websites they’re actually visiting, and second, a troubling GPS hack […]
Syria’s Internet Hijack
Posted May 12th, 2011 at 4:35 pm (UTC-4)
Using a “Man-in-the-Middle” to Target Activists Given the civil unrest roiling the Middle East, Syria’s recent decision to unblock Facebook seemed…well, puzzling. After all that’s been made of the social network’s role in helping organize the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings, why would Damascus choose this moment to open it up? Perhaps now we have the […]
