March 04, 2020 Facebook purges hundreds of fake accounts from state actors, marketers It removed 5 networks engaged in foreign or government interference in Egypt, India, Russia, Iran, and Myanmar/Vietnam. Some targeted the US. Naked Security
December 21, 2016 News in brief: crackdown on drones; Egypt blocks Signal; Nook 7 warning Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news Naked Security
June 21, 2016 Facebook and Twitter blocked to keep students from cheating in Algeria Algeria is the latest Middle Eastern country to block Facebook and Twitter in an attempt to keep students from cheating on exams. Naked Security
April 08, 2016 Hacking Team loses global license to sell spyware The Italian government revoked Hacking Team's global license to sell its spyware to some governments with poor human rights records. Naked Security