7 month agoTelegram is partially down
Mobile Internet is down in central Minsk
7 month agoLooks like Level3/CenturyLink has broken IPv4 in a significant part of Europe (or possibly the world). Packets are just looping around
The websites of Belarus independent media outlets naviny.by and NN.by were blocked by the Ministry of Information of Belarus on the evening of August 28. Earlier, authorities blocked access to Radio Liberty @svaboda and multiple news websites.
Naviny.by website has been blocked. The blocking decision was made on Friday evening by the Ministry of Information. Together with it, at least one more independent online publication, Nasha Niva, was blocked.
US arrested Chinese researcher Hu Haizhou for stealing highly-advanced bio-inspired computer code from UVA which could've been used for underwater robots, aircraft engines, & more. He was stopped at Chicago OHare on his way to China.
7 month agoA 26yo male computer technician was arrested on 26 Aug on 7 counts of incitement crimes, HK Police said. The man is allegedly an admin of Telegram channel "SUCK CHANNEL", which police said had over 100K members and already overtaken by the force
TikTok chairman Kevin Mayer resigns
Facebook chose not to act on militia complaints before Kenosha shooting "Multiple users reported the account for inciting violence, but were told it did not violate platform policy"
A1 ISP confirms that Internet bandwidth in central Minsk again cut on the order of authorities
North Korea using hackers to steal, fund weapons program: U.S. commander
7 month agoThe account of the English-language channel TV Republika Poland Daily suspended for violating Twitter's rules
Reports of internet disruption in central Minsk
Facebook blocks Thai access to group critical of monarchy
8 month agoConfirmed: Network data from Belarus show a city-level blackout affecting network operator MTS in Minsk; cellular and some fixed line internet services unavailable amid swelling protests following disputed elections; incident ongoing
No Movistar service in San Cristóbal. The operator has not worked for half a delay.
Viber has closed its office in Minsk and plans to stop investing in the Belarusian economy.
Besides news websites, VPN and secure mail services were blocked in Belarus including @PsiphonInc , @ProtonMail , @ZenMate , @TutanotaTeam , @safevpn, @SaferVPN and many others. Service for live streaming @LiveU is blocked too
The website of @svaboda (@RFERL) was blocked by Belarus' Ministry of Information along with 73 other pages, including euroradio.fm, belsat.eu, by.tribuna.com and many others.
Announcement from @facebook that it'll restrict the spread of QAnon-related content, but won't be outright banning such material
Turkey: Thousands of social media users investigated, Kurdish women's news site blocked
Miami police used Clearview AI to identify and arrest a demonstrator during May protests following the death of George Floyd
New from Epic Games: "Apple has removed Fortnite from the App Store and informed Epic that on Friday, August 28 Apple will terminate all our developer accounts and cut Epic off from iOS and Mac development tools."
8 month agoConfirmed: Nation-scale internet disruption currently registered in Belarus affecting almost all networks in the country; incident duration ~15 minutes, with signs of some ongoing impact
Foreign internet channels of Beltelecom and NCOT disrupted and caused internet outages in Belarus, now reportedly recovering
8 month agoToyota Greece hacked by Turkish Hackers
"I do what's good in terms of the security of the country," replies @POTUS when asked about the ramifications on US businesses if they're banned from dealing with the @WeChatApp
Al-Qassam say their websites have been hacked again, and they are working to restore them
Deir Ezzor: The Syrian Democratic Forces are cutting off the Internet from all areas of Deir Ezzor countryside under their control
Per @MoDIsrael: cleared for Publication: The Defense Establishment Has Thwarted a Cyber Attack Targeting Defense Industries. The attack was conducted by an international cyber group called "Lazarus" - an organization that is backed by a foreign country
