Iran lifts WhatsApp ban, but users hardly feel a changeArdavan Yousefi, a Tehran cafe owner, finds Iran's lifting of the WhatsApp ban insignificant due to widespread restrictions on other platfo...
02 Jan, 2025, 09.29 PM IST
Iran cyberspace council votes to lift ban on WhatsAppIran's top council responsible for safeguarding the internet voted Tuesday to lift a ban on the popular messaging application WhatsApp, whi...
24 Dec, 2024, 09.02 PM IST
Why Brazil’s Supreme Court blocked X and what it means for the platformBrazil's Supreme Court has ordered the suspension of X, formerly known as Twitter, due to its failure to comply with legal requirements. Ow...
31 Aug, 2024, 07.01 PM IST
ChatGPT frenzy sweeps China as firms scramble for home-grown optionsSleekFlow, a Tiger Global-backed startup in Hong Kong, said it was integrating the AI into its customer relations messaging tools.
10 Feb, 2023, 05.04 PM IST
Iranians fear new bill will restrict internet even furtherIran moved last week toward further government restrictions on Instagram and other apps, as hard-line lawmakers agreed to discuss a bill th...
04 Aug, 2021, 12.16 PM IST
China and Russia using digital tech to sabotage and steal, warns UK“You've got authoritarian regimes including North Korea, Iran, Russia and China using digital tech to sabotage and steal, or to control and...
12 May, 2021, 05.17 PM IST
Iran extends social media crackdown with move to bar InstagramInstagram would join Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Telegram in being banned in the Islamic Republic, ostensibly for reasons of national se...
02 Jan, 2019, 11.36 PM IST
China, Russia, Iran pose grave cyber espionage threat to US: ReportChina, according to the report, has expansive efforts in place to acquire US technology to include sensitive trade secrets and proprietary ...
27 Jul, 2018, 01.57 PM IST
US National Defence Strategy 2018 another instance of conceptual contradictions in Trump policiesUS had played China card against Russia during Cold War. Rather than repeating the strategy in reverse, US has brought the two together aga...
01 Feb, 2018, 12.11 AM IST
India will assert its voice for the digitally deprived: Ravi Shankar PrasadIndia will be a "voice of moderation and reason" in the global digital discourse, he said while addressing the Ministerial Forum at Global ...
24 Nov, 2017, 08.16 PM IST
Internet should not become a playground for terrorism: PM Narendra Modi“Information sharing and coordination among security agencies is essential to counter the everchanging threat landscape,” Modi said.
24 Nov, 2017, 10.12 AM IST
China's activities in South China Sea may pose threat to trade routes: USChina's activities in the disputed South China Sea are "destabilising" and may pose a threat to commercial trade routes in the region, a to...
30 Mar, 2016, 12.40 PM IST
Iran moves to ease Internet censorship via "smart filtering"Censorship has eased somewhat since Hassan Rouhani was elected last year on a moderate platform the "smart filter" initiative seemed to ref...
14 May, 2014, 11.00 PM IST
Sunday ET: Rial's crash this week brings popular anger closer to Iran clericsThe clerical system that runs Iran may worry that popular anger against the economy could turn into anger against the Ayatollahs or their r...
07 Oct, 2012, 06.13 AM IST
- While the world braces for e-threats, India moves slow
Russian expert warned developed countries would be the "main victims'' of cyber-war since they were the most inter-connected in terms of IT.
06 Feb, 2012, 11.04 AM IST
China has a history of hacking computersChina has a history of hacking computers not just elsewhere in the world but also in India.
14 Jan, 2010, 12.59 AM IST
- China, Cuba denounced for web censorship
These are the countries singled out by the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders as the worst culprits for systematic online censor...
09 Nov, 2006, 12.16 AM IST