The hacktivist group Anonymous is targeting Israeli government websites to include the one run by the Mossad, the national intelligence agency of Israel. On Monday, the group took responsibility for bringing down several Israeli government sites, including that of the Mossad. We are attacking the government of israel more Israel you're weak! :( #Anonymous #AntiSec — […]
Israel vs. Palestine: The Conflict Explained Amid renewed fighting between Israel and the Palestinian territories, The Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor offers a background on the decades-old conflict and the current escalation in the video, below. Tharoor begins by noting that “altogether, Israel and the Palestinian territories are the size of Maryland and have a population […]
Reports are coming out of the Ukraine that a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet with 295 people onboard has in Ukraine, near the Russian border, on Thursday. NBC reports that “according to the Interfax news agency, and an adviser to the Ukrainian government said that it had been shot down.” The reports could not immediately be […]
Border Patrol agents in Arizona were reportedly fired upon by a Mexican military helicopter that traveled across the border according to a news report from CBS News, Las Vegas. KVOA-TV reports that Mexican authorities were conducting a drug interdiction operation when the incident happened early Thursday morning on the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation. The Mexican […]
Terre des Hommes, an international charitable humanitarian federation which concentrates on children’s rights, is using cutting edge digital technology to battle the exploitation of children online. One of their online tools is known as “Sweetie.” Sweetie is a fictitious, virtual 10-year old created by Terre des Hommes to lure and identify patrons of online child […]