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Wikipedia Access Has Been Blocked in Turkey
Access to online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey early Saturday morning. Human rights groups have been concerned about increasing crackdowns on free speech in the country, including the 81 journalists jailed last year and the ban appears to be consistent with the government’s efforts to curtail comments critical…
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Real-Life Transformer Up For Auction
It is a dream many who grew up in the 80’s have: seeing a real-life Transformer. The cartoon of vehicle-morphing robots has spawned multiple movies that have earned billions of dollars and now it is a gigantic remote control toy. If you have the money now you can even own…
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Hacker Releases 17.8GB of Data From Turkish Police Server
A hacker going by the online alias ROR[RG] has released a large amount of data that belonged to a Turkish National Police database and is thought to contain large amounts of sensitive private information. ROR[RG] is aligned with the Anonymous hacktivist group and has leaked the data that was supposedly stolen from Turkish…
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Anonymous Claims They Are Responsible for Crippling Turkey
Anonymous has made recent news with taking part in and claiming hacks against several large groups, their latest campaign being targeted against ISIS (now more commonly known as ISIL or Daesh), with splinter groups even supporting the FBI with information. Now it would seem that they are not only directly…
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Google Android One Program Lands in Europe
Google’s Android One, a standard created for Android systems, mainly targeted at a range of customers looking forward to buying their first smartphone. The devices are usually low-end and run the latest version of Android. This program is already up and running in countries such as India, Bangladesh, Philippines and Indonesia. Google has…
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Turkey Seeks to Ban Minecraft
After an investigation held by the Turkish Social Policies Ministry, it has now been confirmed that the country is seeking to ban the wildly popular sandbox phenomenon, Minecraft, on the grounds that the game is “too violent”. The news was broken by Turkish news outlets Hürriyet Daily News and LeaderGamer. The Ministry’s…
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Facebook Bows to Threats and Bans “Anti-Islamic” Pages in Turkey
Rather than be subject to being blocked entirely in Turkey, Facebook has agreed to block “anti-Islamic” content within the country after a Turkish court order. Gölbaşı Criminal Court of Peace in Ankara issued the order on Sunday, threatening to block Facebook outright if the social media site did not comply,…
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FBI Informant Leads Attacks on Turkish Government
A hacker who turned to being an FBI informant in order to avoid prison has been leading cyber attacks on Turkey. Hector Xavier Montague, or better know under the alias Sabu, has been working with the FBI since his arrest in 2011 after being charged for cyber crimes. Sabu was…
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Turkish Hackers Claim To Have Leaked 40,000 Sony Italy Account Details
According to “Maxney” on Twitter, a member of the Turkish Ajan hacking group, Sony Italy has been breached revealing the details and passwords of 40,000 customers. What’s worrying is that these passwords are plain text meaning that they are not encrypted and can be easily read by anyone. The information,…
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Turkish Government Criticises Twitter For Not Giving Up User Data
For those who follow international news you may have seen that Turkey is currently experience some civil unrest which the government has made efforts to contain and control. In an effort to control the protesters the Turkish government has been coming down quite hard on people and a lot of…
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