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chief General Omar Suleiman as vice president. The protesters, however, do
not have a very favorable view of the intelligence services.
Larry Goodson, professor of Middle East Studies at the U.S. Army War
College, said that when pro-Mubarak demonstrators clashed with antigovernment
protesters, it appeared to have been orchestrated by the
government.
"When I saw that amazing footage of people on horseback and camelback
galloping through Tahrir Square, and the tanks just sort of there and these
guys coming through - that’s, like, crazy, and clearly suggested to me that
the regime had deployed those people to attack what was essentially a
peaceful, albeit unruly and unwanted by the regime, protest," said Goodson.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Spy-Apparatus-Critical-in-
Egyptian-Crisis-115134599.html
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Egypt Unplugged from the Internet
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(Krebs) As many readers no doubt know, the Egyptian government on Thursday
severed the nation’s ties with the rest of the Internet, in an apparent
effort to disrupt political protests calling for an end to the 30-year rule
of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.
I’ve been tweeting about new developments as they arise, but I wanted to
point to a few of the more dramatic graphs that different sources have
drawn up to show the precipitous decline in Internet traffic and
connectivity to and from Egypt as leaders there sought to isolate phone and
computer networks from the rest of the world.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/01/egypt-unplugged-from-theinternet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KrebsO
nSecurity+%28Krebs+on+Security%29
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Spammers Hijack Internet Space Assigned to Egyptian President’s Wife
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(Krebs) Egyptian citizens calling for besieged President Hosni Mubarak to
step down may have been cut off from using the Web, but spammers have been
busy cutting the government off from its own Internet address space:
Earlier this month, junk e-mail artists hijacked a large swath of Internet
addresses assigned to Mubarak’s wife.
According to Spamhaus.org, well known spammers commandeered a chunk of more
than 4,000 IP addresses that were assigned years ago to Suzanne Mubarak and
the Suzanne Mubarak Science Exploration Center. Spamhaus reports that those
addresses have been used recently to promote a variety of dodgy Web
businesses, and that the hijacked block is under the control of an
organization that has ties to alleged spammer Michael Lindsay and iMedia
Networks. iMedia did not respond to requests for comment.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/02/spammers-hijack-internet-space-assignedto-egyptian-presidentswife/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KrebsOnSec
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