This edition of the Middle East and North Africa CyberWatch covers topics such as censorship and filtering, blogger and netizen arrests, cyber attacks, and more.

2012 Google Policy Fellow Kieran Bergmann wrote an article titled Outsourcing Censorship for the Canadian International Council on how governments in Asia are increasing their efforts to control online content.

This issue of the Middle East and North Africa Cyber Watch covers topics such as censorship and filtering, blogger arrests, cyber attacks, Internet and social media use, and technology.

Director Ron Deibert wrote a paper for the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute titled Distributed Security as Cyber Strategy: Outlining a Comprehensive Approach for Canada in Cyberspace.

This edition of the MENA Cyber Watch covers topics such as censorship and filtering, blogger arrests, cyber attacks and more.

Director Ron Deibert wrote an article for iPolitics titled Towards stewardship in cyberspace.

Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Senior Scholar Marc Goodman writes an article for CNN entitled How technology makes us vulnerable.

This issue of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Cyber Watch covers issues such as blogger and netizen arrests, Internet and social media use, censorship and filtering, hacktivism, government control, and cyber warfare.

A roundup of cyber news from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This week’s post includes updates on Syria, use of Internet technology in Tunisia to advance freedom, blogger arrests, and social media news.

In an Internet survey conducted by the Iranian state television’s Shabakeye Khabar (News Network), conducted on June 3, 2012, 63 percent of respondents said that they would like to see a stop to uranium enrichment activity in order to halt sanctions against the country. The network later claimed that the results were manipulated by hackers.