IRAN: The moon of Shawwal and the filtering of Grand Ayatollahs’ websites The official websites of two Shi’a Grand Ayatollahs were temporarily blocked [Farsi] and one other hacked after they announced that the holiday of Eid al-Fitr was to fall on a different day than that announced by Ayatollah Khamenei. [...] The appearance of the moon of Shawwal (Estehlal), which marks the end of Ramadan, has always been an important point of controversy between Grand Ayatollahs. [...] IRAN: Filtering of Apple’s App Store and iTunes The Iranian government has blocked access to Apple’s iTunes and App Store after months of allowing free access to Iranians users to the two services. [...] Saudi Aramco posted a response to the attack on its Facebook page, stating that the “interruption has had no impact whatsoever on any of the company’s production operations” and that the virus had likely originated on the personal workstations of its employees. [...] The “Arab Youth Group” claimed responsibility for the attack on Pastebin and warned Saudi rulers that they “will face more severe action” if they “continue to betray the nation.” SYRIA: Pro-government hackers use fake anti-hacking tool to target activists Eva Galperin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Morgan Marquis-Boire, a Technical Advisor at the Citizen Lab, have issued a report on the.
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