The Future of Iran’s Internet Is More Uncertain Than Ever

Iran’s internet shutdown has reduced connectivity by 99 percent, with air strikes likely causing additional outages, and few workarounds remaining...

Why Tehran’s Two-Tiered Internet Is So Dangerous

Iran is slowly emerging from the most severe communications blackout in its history and one of the longest in the world. Triggered as part of January's government crackdown against citizen protests nationwide, the regime implemented an internet shutdown that transcends the standard definition of...

Iran’s Digital Surveillance Machine Is Almost Complete

After more than 15 years of draconian measures, culminating in an ongoing internet shutdown, the Iranian regime seems to be staggering toward its digital surveillance endgame...

ICE Can Now Spy on Every Phone in Your Neighborhood

Plus: Iran shuts down its internet amid sweeping protests, an alleged scam boss gets extradited to China, and more...

Iran’s Internet Shutdown Hides a Deadly Crackdown

Amid protests against the killing of Mahsa Amini, authorities have cut off mobile internet, WhatsApp, and Instagram. The death toll continues to rise...

Myanmar’s Internet Shutdown Is an Act of ‘Vast Self-Harm’

On Friday the military junta shut off connectivity across the country. There’s no sign of when it will return...

What Life Is Like Under Myanmar's Internet Shutdown

One couple living in Yangon explain the impact of the military coup's terrifying censorship measures...

A Spate of Arrests Sends the Piracy World Reeling

Plus: ATM hacks, the Belarus internet shutdown, and more of the week's top security news...

Belarus Has Shut Down the Internet Amid a Controversial Election

Human rights organizations have blamed the Belarusian government for widespread outages...

Iran Has Shut Off its Internet

Iran has gone pretty much entirely offline in the wake of nationwide protests. This is the best article detailing what's going on; this is also good. AccessNow has a global campaign to stop Internet shutdowns. TITLE EDITED TO REDUCE CONFUSION...

Russian to shut down Internet to test its cyber deterrence

By Carolina To test the security of its data, Russia is considering disconnecting its Internet service for a short period of time. The test will affect all the data sent by Russian citizens or organizations as Internet access would be limited only within the national territory, meaning that they...

Algeria Shut Down the Internet to Prevent Students from Cheating on Exams

Algeria shut the Internet down nationwide to prevent high-school students from cheating on their exams. The solution in New South Wales, Australia was to ban smartphones. EDITED TO ADD 6/22: Slashdot thread...

FBI will shutdown the Internet on March 8

FBI will shutdown the Internet on March 8 The Internet could go dark for millions of users as early as March 8 because of a virus that has corrupted computers in more than 100 countries. Last year, authorities in Estonia apprehended six men believed responsible for creating a malicious computer...

#OpLibya : Google launches 'Speak to Tweet' service in Libya !

Big internet company from the United States, Google, appeared to be a mouthpiece for the people of Libya. Google ever did it during the regime of President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak cut off internet connection. Now, Libya under the power of President Muammar al-Gaddafi also blocked Internet service...

Egypt Shut Down Net With Big Switch, Not Phone Calls !

The Egyptian government shut down most of its country's internet not by phoning ISPs one at a time, but by simply throwing a switch in a crucial data center in Cairo. That according to a February presentation to the Department of Homeland Security's Infosec Technology Transition Council. The...

Hackers Shut Down Egyptian Government Sites !

The online accumulation Anonymous said Wednesday that it had bedridden the Egyptian government's Web sites in abutment of the antigovernment protests. Anonymous, a about authentic accumulation of hackers from all over the world, aggregate about 500 supporters in online forums and acclimatedcomput...