Report: CIA site hacked, defaced
18 Jun 2011 Less than a week after it was attacked, the US Central Intelligence Agency’s website was again attacked, and defaced this time by an Indian hacker who gained access to it. The hacker,...
View ArticleF.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline
–‘After F.B.I.’s unprofessional ‘work’ we can not restart our own servers, that’s why our Web site is offline and support doesn’t work.’ 21 Jun 2011 The F.B.I. seized Web servers in a raid on a data...
View ArticleUS: Intermittent outages hit major websites
Major websites from Gmail to Facebook and the New York Times went down completely for short periods of time Tuesday. The sources of the outages – which in some cases lasted minutes, some longer –...
View Article‘Rogue websites’ bill introduced in US House
–Bill allegedly paves way for US law enforcement to unilaterally shut down websites, including foreign sites, without due process 26 Oct 2011 US lawmakers introduced a bill on Wednesday that would give...
View ArticleU.S. Justice Department Wants To Criminalize Uploading You Tube Videos
‘The Department of Justice is attempting to criminalize uploading videos that break You Tube’s terms of service, along with any other online action that is deemed to contravene a website’s usage...
View ArticleSarkozy: Jail those who browse terror websites –
-‘Anyone’ who regularly consults terror-advocating sites will be criminally punished 22 Mar 2012 France’s president proposed a sweeping new law Thursday that would jail those who visit extremist web...
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