Freedom of speech is not free and it is not a right in every country. The blocking of Twitter and YouTube in Turkey is well-documented, but the question of right and wrong is more up in the air. After all, not all countries have to follow the lead of the USA, although it is hard to argue with giving citizens the right to express themselves. However, that is an argument and a fight of which the Turkish people must take ownership.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday denounced as "villainous" the leaking of a recording of top security officials discussing possible military action in Syria to the video-sharing site YouTube.
Turkish authorities ordered the shutdown of the site.
Vodafone Iceland has been hacked and 77,000 customer records spaffed across the internet.
The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service ruv.is reports that the hack became apparent on Saturday. By Sunday Vodafone Iceland had 'fessed up to the incident but denied other reports that personal details including bank account numbers and passwords had been revealed to the world.
Hackers of the China Blue Army, a collective associated with Group Hp-Hack, claim to have breached the official website of Turkey’s Parliament, or the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (global.tbmm.gov.tr).
The hackers leaked a document containing the email addresses, names and passwords of around 45 individuals.
Turkish hackers managed to divert the domain name system (DNS) entries for several hundred Pakistani sites in the .pk top-level domain over the weekend,
On Saturday, Pakistani programmer Irfan Ahmad listed some 110 sites in the .pk TLD that had been subverted.
The Turkish hacker collective, RedHack, has leaked details on Turkish police informants and spying requests sent in to police. The 75MB text file is available on various file download sites (http://depositfiles.com/files/dgxtgh7mp) and contains thousands of emails most likely obtained when the group breached the site back in March of this year.
Members of RedHack recently accessed the Web site of Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stealing data and and placing photos of Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyp Erdogan embracing Syrian president Bashar al Assad and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi on the site.
"Today, the group provided a link to a Dropbox file-sharing address, which contained images of the identity cards the Turkish Foreign Ministry has issued for foreign diplomats working in Turkey," PanARMENIAN.net reports.
