Another Volley in the Israel-Saudi Hacker Spat
The latest strike in the little cyber war between Israel and the Saudi hacker group xp-group, led by 0xOmar, has taken the form of an Israeli hack of Saudi credit cards, according to Ynet.
An Israel hackers told Ynet, "If the leaks continue, we will c...
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Saudi Hacker Threatens to Release 1 Million Israeli Credit Card Numbers
After releasing 15,000 credit card numbers hacked from an Israeli website on Tuesday, the Saudi hacker known as 0xOmar has released 11,000 more today. He has threatened to release a further one million.
The hacker broke into a popular Israeli sports ...
Mideast Tunes 2.0: A Mixing Board for the Real Music of the Middle East
The ability to create expressive, gorgeous, geographically-agnostic gateways to the human experience is one of the true boons of the social Web. If you're still laboring under the misapprehension that the Middle East is mostly donkeys and dahabiyas, Mi...
Geek Out for NASA
Today, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration released code.nasa.gov into "early alpha." So if you're a coder and an open source geek with a yen for the icy cold of outer space... dig.
The site "will serve to surface existing projects, prov...
Control: China Launches National GPS System
The urge for control is powerful, made exponentially more so whenever two or more representatives of a government get together. Among the more prominent, and ridiculous, examples of this trend are Iran's attempt to create a "halal" Internet (ostensibly...
Top 10 Culture-Tech Stories of 2011
Technology is frequently examined as though it were the reason for its own being, a kind of byte-driven tautology or spectacularly dry religious sect. But technology is a means to address questions. In that spirit, here are the top 10 stories about how we've employed the social web to ask...
ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, December 18, 2011
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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, December 10, 2011
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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, December 3, 2011
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Mexican Weekly Suffers DDoS: Cartels May Be Responsible
Ríodoce, one of the few publications left in Mexico that cover gang-related crime news, suffered a distributed denial of service attack on Friday. The publication's host, DreamHost, told the weekly by email that the attack threatened other customers, ...
Venezuela’s Chávez Hacks Critics’ Twitter Accounts – With Cuba’s Help
Despite his reputation as a darling of the Left for his anti-American rhetoric, Venezuela's strongman Hugo Chávez is known by many in his country as a dedicated suppressor of free speech. An article in the International Herald Tribune today by Francis...
