Bangladesh blocks YouTube over film

Bangladesh blocks YouTube over film



Dhaka, Sep 17 (bdnews24.com)—Authorities in Bangladesh on Monday blocked YouTube's website indefinitely to stop the people watching a US-made film that insults the Prophet Muhammad and has sparked violence in the Muslim world.

Visitors in Bangladesh could not access the site after 5:30pm on Monday, a BTRC System and Service Department official told bdnews24.com.

Four US officials including the Ambassador to Libya were killed in the east Libyan city of Benghazi last week after anger over the film boiled over and there have also been protests against its content in Egypt and Yemen.

YouTube, the video website owned by Google Inc, has declined to take the film down, saying it fell within their guidelines, but blocked access to the film in Egypt and Libya because of "special circumstances" in those countries.

Source: bdnews24.com/sha/ost/bd/2258h

Your smartphone will (eventually) be hacked

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Security experts have warned for years that our smartphones are due for a major cyberattack. Like PCs back in the early days -- the 1990s -- mobile phones are largely unprotected by antivirus software, and they're a treasure trove of valuable information.

So why hasn't the smartphone Armageddon happened yet?

Basic economics is one reason. Cyberthieves are making so much money attacking Windows PCs that there hasn't been much incentive to change tactics. It's hard to track down exact statistics on how much money is stolen each year through cyberattacks, but most security experts put the dollar figure in the billions. One single, recent hack that Verizon (VZ,Fortune 500) investigated -- debit card numbers stolen from merchants through secretly installed keyloggers -- resulted in a loss of $20 million.

Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) Windows is still the low-hanging fruit. With 92% share of the PC market and a two-thirds share of all Internet-connected devices, Windows is the obvious target to attack if you're a hacker looking to make money.

We're about to hit a tipping point, though. Most people still do their online banking and shopping on their PCs, but those transactions are happening on mobile phones more frequently. Where money goes, cybercrooks follow.

Here are the scary numbers: Cyberattacks on mobile phones rose by a factor of six this year, according to Intel (INTC, Fortune 500) subsidiary McAfee. Four in 10 mobile users will click an unsafe link on a smartphone this year, according to Lookout Security.

Yet less than a fifth of the devices run any antivirus software, according to security research organization SANS. An RSA study shows we're much more likely to click on phishing attacks on mobile devices than we are on PCs.

Still, not even one major cyberattack has hit smartphones. What's up?

The good news is that developers learned from the industry's long history of cybersecurity debacles. Smartphone operating systems were built from scratch fairly recently -- not much legacy code here -- and were designed with strong security protections. Though it's possible, it's incredibly difficult to attack a device through one program and then own an entire phone.

Fragmentation is also an unexpected protection. With so many different varieties of Google's (GOOG, Fortune 500) Android operating system out there, it's hard to write the right code for a wide swath of devices.

Even users of Android -- the target of almost all mobile malware -- are far less susceptible to attack than PC users. The growth in mobile threats is dramatic, but the 13,000 different kinds of mobile malware McAfee has found this year is still teeny compared with the 90 million threats it detected for PCs.

Still, experts say it's just a matter of time before mobile catches up.

"The money is in mobile, and that's where they're moving," said Stu Sjouwerman, CEO of KnowBe4, a security training company. "Malware on mobile phones is going to be as prevalent as on the PC. It's inevitable, unfortunately."

Smartphones have become personal computers that travel around with us at all times. Mobile attacks are difficult, and the smartphone space may never be as homogeneous as the PC market, but crooks follow the cash. As smartphones become our primary devices, the cybercriminals' motivation for targeting them grows. All it will take is one slip up by Apple(AAPL, Fortune 500) or Google.

"What will happen is one of these smartphone makers will release a new OS or browser, and there will be a hole," said Alan Wlasuk, the managing partner of WDDInc., a software development company. "An attacker will exploit that. That's going to happen for sure." 

Source: Change Source

116 USA Based Websites Hacked By Sizzling Soul

116 USA Based Websites Hacked By Sizzling Soul

116 USA Based Websites Has been Hacked By Sizzling Soul, a team member from Pakistan Cyber Army. The Hacker had Hacked it after U.S had made an Anti-Islamic movie. 

Sites Hacked: http://pastebin.com/LCW3xJnt

YouTube video blocked in more countries, as Google faces legal threats

The number of countries where a controversial movie trailer on YouTube has been blocked increased to five by Monday, as Google ran into legal threats in some of these countries.

Malaysia is the latest country in which Google has blocked the YouTube video, which mocks the Prophet Muhammad, according to the state-controlled news agency Bernama. The government had earlier demanded that Google block the video in the country, threatening the company with action under local laws.

The country's information, communications and culture minister, Rais Yatim, was reported by Bernama on Monday to have said in a statement that the public prosecutor had every right under the country's penal code "to book quarters who cause disharmony, disunity or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill will on grounds of religion between groups of persons."

The minister added that the powers of the authorities under the Communications and Multimedia Act could also be invoked against YouTube, which had shown itself "oblivious to the tumult it had caused."

Google did not immediately confirm whether it had blocked the movie trailer in Malaysia.

The 14-minute video trailer has caused protests at U.S. embassies and consulates in various countries including Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Indonesia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. White House press secretary Jay Carney said last week that the U.S. government had nothing to do with the video. Carney said the U.S. does not and cannot stop individual citizens from expressing their views.

The video was filmed in the U.S. by a person, or people, whose identity has yet to be established, according to some reports.

"Of what avail is th [sic] US speech freedom if in its extension the religion of others is rediculed [sic] and reduced to mockery?," Rais wrote in a message on Twitter. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Google also blocked the video on Friday in Indonesia and India. Earlier it had blocked it in Egypt and Libya.

The company said in a statement on Friday that it had restricted access to the video in countries where it is illegal, such as India and Indonesia, as well as in Libya and Egypt given the very sensitive situations in these two countries.

Four Americans including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, were killed last week when a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, was stormed by gunmen.

In India, where Google and other Internet companies were sued in December by private individuals for other content alleged to be objectionable on its websites, Google responded last week to an order from a court in Jammu and Kashmir and blocked the video in the country, according to a source.

YouTube users in the country, trying to view the video, are now referred to a support page that states that the video-sharing site does on occasion block specific content in order to comply with local laws. "For instance, certain Nazi imagery is unlawful in parts of Europe," it added.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have initiated their own blocks of the controversial video.

Source: View Source

Anti-Islam movie YouTube video links blocked in Pakistan

Islamabad, Sep 17: Following the Supreme Court's order Pakistan on Monday, Sep 17 blocked 700 YouTube video links of the anti-Islam movie which criticised Prophet Muhammed.

The apex court earlier had asked the state-owned Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block links to the movie which triggered anti-US agitation across the world.

According to sources, YouTube earlier had refused to accept PTA's demand of removing objectionable video links as Pakistan government does not have such agreement with YouTube.

After blocking 700 YouTube links, Pakistan government, however, clarified its stand on the issue saying that it was not blocking popular websites YouTube and Facebook, but only anti-Islamic materials have been blocked.

Meanwhile, Google India also has blocked access to an anti-Islam film that has triggered violence in many countries and led to the killing of the US ambassador in Libya.

However, a Google search on the Internet showed that the clips of the film were still available. Responding to a query, the spokesperson said, "In connection with recent events we would like to reiterate that India has always strongly condemned all acts that disparage religious beliefs and hurt religious sentiments."

Earlier the search engine giant Google refused to accept their proposal of removing the controversial anti-Islam movie. White House officials earlier had asked Google to reconsider whether the video had violated YouTube's terms of service. Reacting against US' proposal, Google on Saturday, Sep 15 said, "We've restricted access to it in countries where it is illegal such as India and Indonesia, as well as in Libya and Egypt, given the very sensitive situations in these two countries," and also added, "This approach is entirely consistent with principles we first laid out in 2007."

The movie criticised Prophet Muhammed calling him "fraud" and "philanderer". Movie clips on YouTube ignited anti-Americans protest followed by a deadly violence in Middle-East countries. The protest against the movie and the Americans became fatal when US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens along with many others was killed in an attack.