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Laura Meckler and Jared A. Favole, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 23 at 12:05 pm PT
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order targeting people and companies facilitating human-rights abuses with technology, part of a broader push by the White House to combat mass atrocities at a time of heightened concern over civilian massacres in places like Syria.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 6 at 7:07 am PT
While the Stuxnet worm was seen as difficult to make, inherent weaknesses found in widely used industrial control computers make attacks like that surprisingly easy to carry out, new research says.
Arik Hesseldahl in Media on March 3 at 7:23 pm PT
The popular TV news show revisits the subject of cyberwar with a profile of the worm that is said to have damaged Iran’s nuclear program.
Ina Fried in Media on February 6 at 4:37 pm PT
The Korean electronics firm says it had no part in an ad done by an Israeli cable company that shows one of its tablets blowing up an Iranian nuclear facility.
Ina Fried in Dive Into Media on January 30 at 6:47 pm PT
Twitter’s chief says the company’s new ability to block tweets for a particular country is about censoring content for fewer people, not more.
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Paul Sonne and Farnaz Fassihi, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on December 27, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Shohreh, a 37-year-old Iranian nurse, sat down with her husband and parents one night in September to watch a documentary about Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, scheduled to be shown on the British Broadcasting Corp.’s BBC Persian channel.
News Byte
Lauren Goode in News on December 15, 2011 at 8:53 am PT
In an open letter to Congress this morning, a group of prominent Internet engineers has
spoken out against the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which are under consideration in the House and Senate. The group argues that censorship of Internet infrastructure will cause network errors and security problems, and points to China and Iran as examples. The letter comes on the heels of yesterday’s opposition in an
Open Letter to Washington from other tech heavyweights, including Sergey Brin, Jerry Yang, Reid Hoffman and Jack Dorsey.
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Steve Stecklow, Farnaz Fassihi and Loretta Chao, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on October 27, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
When Western companies pulled back from Iran after the government’s bloody crackdown on its citizens two years ago, a Chinese telecom giant filled the vacuum. Huawei Technologies Co. now dominates Iran’s government-controlled mobile-phone industry. In doing so, it plays a role in enabling Iran’s state security network.
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Jay Solomon, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 15, 2011 at 12:35 pm PT
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for common global standards to guide the use of the Internet, while increasing pressure on countries like Iran, Syria and China to allow the free flow of information in their societies.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 30, 2010 at 7:00 am PT
The year just ending started with an attack on Google by China and ended with the WikiLeaks affair.
In the meantime, the Stuxnet worm showed the way toward a world where skilled hackers can cause serious real-world damage.
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