Day: December 12, 2015

    Islamic State (Isis) supporters have reportedly released the personal information of some 160 US military personnel in response to Anonymous's cyber campaign against the group. Social media accounts tied to the pro-IS (Daesh) hacking group, Cyber Caliphate, leaked names and addresses of enlisted US Army and Marines on 11 December and claimed to possess information on 700 more military personnel, the Maryland-based SITE Intelligence Group reported. It came on a day that Anonymous, a loose international coalition of hackers and activists, had designated an online "trolling day" against the Islamist fundamentalist group. Social media users were encouraged to spam Twitter accounts belonging to IS sympathisers with images of goats. Anonymous declared "war" on IS in the wake of ...

    Women in Saudi Arabia are finally being allowed to vote - despite still being unable to do basic things like drive or open a bank account without a husband's permission. While restriction remains extremely tight on what women can and cannot do, Saturday’s poll will see more than 130,000 women cast their vote - compared with 1.35 million men. Saudi Arabia was the last country in the world where only men were allowed to vote before today’s historic poll. Some 980 women and 5,000 men are running for seats on municipal councils around the country (the only publicly elected seats). These councils control things such as rubbish collection and street cleaning. Not many women are expected to win seats because of the sheer number of male candidates and because many had no previous ...