Syria drops from Internet 7th May 2013

Published: 2013-05-08. Last Updated: 2013-05-08 01:07:38 UTC
by Chris Mohan (Version: 1)
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There's been a number of reports that Internet connectivity to Syria has been broken or disabled and there is no official word on what has caused this.

Google's Transparency Report page [1] displays the drop off and a more comprehensive report is on Umbrella labs blog [2]

 

 

[1]  http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/#expand=SY

[2] http://labs.umbrella.com/2013/05/07/breaking-news-traffic-from-syria-disappears-from-internet/   

 

 

Chris Mohan --- Internet Storm Center Handler on Duty

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Brian Krebs has an article saying that Trade Compliance has forced a US-based registrar to rescind a lot of Syrian web-site registrations. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/05/trade-sanctions-cited-in-hundreds-of-syrian-domain-seizures/

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