News tagged with extremist
Al-Qaeda sites go silent in possible cyber attack
Al-Qaeda's main Internet sites have gone silent for more than a week in an unprecedented blackout that is most likely the result of a cyber attack, analysts said Tuesday.
Apr 03, 2012 |
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UK police quiz man over abortion website attack
(AP) -- Police have arrested a man suspected of hacking into the website of a major British abortion provider, vandalizing it and stealing sensitive data, officials said Friday.
Mar 09, 2012 |
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Belarus imposes tough new Internet curbs
Ex-Soviet Belarus unveiled tough new Internet restrictions on Friday that limit public access to opposition websites and impose fines on providers for failing to monitor their clients.
Jan 06, 2012 |
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Report: More than half of people arrested for Islamic terrorist activities were American citizens
Sixty percent of people arrested for Islamic terrorist activities between January 2009 and April 2011 were American citizens, according to a new report from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. The study of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Finland facing large-scale hacking attacks: police
Finland is being targeted by a cyber activism campaign, police acknowledged Tuesday, after an apparent local branch of online "hacktivist" group Anonymous said it had hacked some 500,000 email accounts.
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Tolerance grows for a wide variety of groups, except for Muslim extremists
Although Americans are increasingly tolerant of the open expression of a variety of views, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 have made most Americans reluctant to extend those freedoms to Muslim extremists, research ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 25, 2011 |
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Alternative Vote could lock out extremist candidates, says UK researcher
(PhysOrg.com) -- Moving to an Alternative Vote (AV) electoral system could lock extremist candidates out of office and ensue that the least popular politician has the least chance of winning according to an analysis by University ...
Apr 12, 2011 |
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Extremists more willing to share their opinions, study finds
People with relatively extreme opinions may be more willing to publicly share their views than those with more moderate views, according to a new study.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Militants, 'hacktivists' exploit Web, eye recruits
(AP) -- Terrorist groups that have long used the Internet to spread propaganda are increasingly tapping the Web to teach Islamic extremists how to be hackers, recruit techies for cyberwarfare and raise money ...
Jun 19, 2009 |
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