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• Twitter, Facebook attacked to silence man called Cyxymu

  BNET - 2009-08-12

  Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal  say they are  continuing to fend off cyber attacks that last week derailed the popular Internet services. "The attacks continued but we got better at dealing with them such that Twitter remains active," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote in an email reply to an AFP inquiry....

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• Twitter, Facebook attacked to silence one man

  BNET - 2009-08-10

  A Georgian blogger known as "Cyxymu" has blamed Russia for a massive cyber assault that affected millions of internet users worldwide by disrupting popular sites like Google, Twitter and Facebook. Speaking to AFP in the Georgian capital, the blogger said he believed Russia was behind the distributed-denial-of-service DDoS attacks and...

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• Scrabulous pulled from Facebook in US and Canada

  - 2008-07-29

  SAN FRANCISCO AFP — The creators of online Scrabble knock-off Scrabulous said Tuesday they have pulled their application from US and Canadian Facebook pages due to a lawsuit filed by game-making giant Hasbro. "This is an unfortunate event and not something that we are very pleased about, especially as...

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• Egypt jails Facebook activists for 'threatening national security'

  - 2008-07-24

  CAIRO AFP — Police have arrested 26 Internet activists in the port of Alexandria, and 14 of them were jailed for more than two weeks for "threatening national security," a security official said on Thursday. Around 30 young Egyptians who belong to the so-called "6 April" group on social...

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• Facebook settles ConnectU idea-theft lawsuit

  - 2008-06-26

  SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Facebook said Thursday it is "chapter closed" on a ConnectU lawsuit accusing the hot social-networking website's founder of swiping the idea from fellow Harvard University students. The assurance came after a federal judge in San Jose endorsed a hand-written settlement signed by Facebook founder Mark...

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• Canada students file complaint against Facebook: media

  - 2008-05-31

  MONTREAL AFP — Students at the University of Ottawa have filed an official complaint against Facebook, accusing the social networking website of violating Canada's privacy laws, Radio-Canada reported Saturday. In a complaint to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the students said the popular US-based site sends...

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• Israeli soldier sentenced for posting photo on Facebook

  - 2008-04-24

  JERUSALEM AFP — An Israeli soldier has been jailed for 19 days for posting photos on the Facebook social networking site without permission from his superiors, a military spokeswoman said on Thursday. The soldier was from an elite air force unit, the Haaretz daily said, adding this was the...

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• Egypt frees Facebook activist

  - 2008-04-23

  CAIRO AFP — Egypt on Wednesday freed a woman detained earlier this month for forming a group on the Facebook social networking site that called for protests over price hikes, a security official said. Interior Minister Habib al-Adli ordred Esra Abdel Fattah's release after her mother appealed directly to...

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• Egypt bloggers prepare second strike on regime

  - 2008-04-07

  CAIRO AFP — Galvanised by their call for a general strike on Sunday, Egypt's cyber dissidents have set a new date for anti-regime action on May 4 as an 80th birthday present for President Hosni Mubarak. "We succeeded on April 6, so let's do it again on May 4,"...

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• Moroccan king pardons joker jailed for 'royal' Facebook page

  - 2008-03-19

  RABAT AFP — An Internet joker jailed for having created a fake Facebook page of the brother of King Mohammed VI, was freed after the king issued a pardon, his lawyer told AFP Wednesday. Fouad Mourtada, a 27-year-old computer engineer, was released from a jail in Casablanca on Tuesday...

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