Deux jours après une vidéo publiée par les Anonymous sur YouTube, une liste des 9200 comptes liés à l’État islamique dévoilée par le groupe d’hacktivistes refait surface.

La guerre se fait aussi en ligne. Cette nuit, une liste des 9200 comptes Twitter liés au groupe djihadiste sur un site a refait surface, huit mois après sa médiatisation, en mars dernier.

Dans un texte publié à la même époque sur le site de Medium, le groupe d’hacktivistes anonymes défendait un objectif, celui de pousser le réseau social Twitter à les supprimer

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2 mars 2015 par Bastien Duhamel - 45eNord.ca

«Votre guerre virtuelle contre nous va provoquer une guerre réelle contre vous» ; telle est la menace mise en ligne en Arabe par l’organisation de l’Etat Islamique à l’intention du co-fondateur de Twitter Jack Dorsey.  Cette menace fait suite à une campagne de suppression de plusieurs messages et comptes affiliés au groupe djihadiste sur Twitter.

Déclarant que «nous vous avons prévenu que ce n’était pas votre guerre. Mais vous n’avez pas compris et vous avez continuez à supprimer nos comptes Twitter, nous reviendrons toujours». L’EI a lancé un appel à ses sympathisants à travers le monde pour s’en prendre directement aux employés de Twitter.

Cette menace s’explique par l’importance qu’accorde l’organisation islamique aux média sociaux dont elle se sert comme vecteurs de diffusion de sa propagande ou encore à des fins de recrutement essentiellement à destination des jeunes occidentaux.

Après avoir rappelé que Twitter tout comme les autres médias sociaux interdisent formellement toute publication comportant des menaces à l’égard d’autrui ou à toutes autres fins ou activités illégales, La direction du réseau social par l’intermédiaire de Jim Prosser a réagi brièvement en affirmant que ses «équipes de sécurité enquêtaient sur la véracité de la menace en collaboration avec les autorités officielles compétentes».

12/01/2015 Par LeFigaro.fr avec Agences

Un groupe se revendiquant de l'Etat islamique a piraté les comptes Twitter et Youtube du commandement central américain, aujourd'hui en fin de journée. Le CentCom et le Pentagone ont confirmé le piratage et ont suspendu ces deux comptes.

"Au nom de Dieu, le très bienveillant, le très miséricordieux, le Cyber Califat continue son cyberdjihad", pouvait-on encore lire il y a quelques minutes sur le compte Twitter du CentCom. Un autre message publié sur le réseau social indiquait que "L'EI est déjà là, nous sommes dans vos PC, dans chaque base militaire américaine".

Une liste de noms de généraux de l'armée américaine et des informations militaires concernant la Chine et la Corée du Nord ont été publiées.

Luxembourg Oct 09, 2014 - Spacewar.com (AFP)

The European Union and US Internet giants including Facebook and Twitter will work together to combat online extremism and have discussed steps to block gruesome beheading videos, officials said Thursday.

EU interior ministers and officials met representatives from the technology firms in Luxembourg on Wednesday amid growing alarm that Islamist material is encouraging young Muslims to fight in Syria and Iraq.

EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem said Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft had explained what they do to prevent showing the videos, "which according to their internal policies are totally against their principles".

But the Swede insisted that outright blocking of websites "is not the question".

She added: "There is urgency, but we should not rush into making laws or taking decisions without thinking."

In a later joint statement, Malmstroem and Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said the two sides "agreed to organise joint training and awareness-raising workshops for the representatives of the law enforcement authorities, Internet industry and civil society".

- Jihadists using web to recruit -

Social media has become a powerful recruiting tool for jihadists, with the Islamic State group posting several videos online showing the grisly beheadings of Western hostages.

US Internet firms have sometimes been uneasy about blocking extremist material, seeing themselves as platforms rather than publications, and worrying about the implications for free speech, which is strongly protected under US law.

EU counter-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove, who was also at the dinner, said the US firms were "very eager to do their part" in what he called a joint public-private effort to combat extremism.

They discussed "how can we remove from the Internet illegal content, how can we use it proactively in order to counter their narrative," he said.

"Twitter has made the life of ISIL (Islamic State) quite difficult. That's the reason why they moved from Twitter to another social network," he added.

Around 3,000 Europeans have travelled to fight in Syria and Iraq, de Kerchove told AFP in September.

Officials worry some will return battle-hardened and ready to launch attacks in their home countries.

Many European parents have learned that their sons or daughters have left to fight or support jihad in Syria through messages posted on Facebook or Twitter.

Police officers who are worried that they might return to launch attacks in their home countries need such messages to determine where they are, a European official said.

The aim of cooperating with the social networks is to block the broadcast of messages and images of jihadist groups, something that must be done rapidly as the documents are duplicated quickly.

Facebook, the world's biggest social network with 1.3 billion user accounts, said it has barred "terrorist" groups from its site.

The firm intervenes when it becomes aware of accounts or content that violate user conditions, particularly in cases of calls to violence, according to Monika Bickert, Facebook head of global policy management.

The ministers were also looking into how to reinforce border checks to prevent jihadists leaving for the Middle East, and monitoring the return of those who might be preparing attacks.

However, the Schengen border-free zone, which applies to most EU countries, bars systematic checks, and the European parliament has blocked plans for a European Passenger Name Record system, a database that holds the itinerary of airline passengers.

According to cases released under the Freedom of Information Act, the MoD recorded at least 11 instances of restricted and confidential information being leaked by members of the Armed Forces from 2011 to 2013

06 Jul 2014 By Ben Farmer, Defence Correspondent - telegraph.co.uk

Social media blunders by members of the Armed Forces have risked compromising operations and national security by leaking patrol times, details of sensitive visits and photos of restricted areas, records show.

Cases investigated by the Ministry of Defence have included servicemen disclosing details of Britain’s submarines, posting videos of people and equipment in Afghanistan and operations in Libya.

The cases show the military hazards arising from the widespread use of social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook.

The Armed Forces and MoD work under strict rules about using such networks, for fear they are combed by foreign agents and enemies looking for information on the military and operations.

According to cases released under the Freedom of Information Act, the MoD recorded at least 11 instances of restricted and confidential information being leaked by members of the Armed Forces from 2011 to 2013. The scale of the problem is likely to be far higher, because the files do not include civilian MoD cases.

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