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Spotify Now Available in Lebanon and Premium Costs $4.99/month

By Rami on November 14, 2018 in Music

Rumors about Spotify expanding to the Middle East started circulating around a year ago, and just today the service finally announced their official launch in Lebanon and several other countries in the region with sign-ups open for everyone.

The launching covered Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Bahrain, and you can use Spotify either for free or through premium subscription worth $4.99/month in Lebanon, which allows streaming of music without commercial ads as well as the ability to download tracks that can be played offline.

I have just downloaded the Spotify app to my phone but didn’t yet figure if there are any limitation on the music catalog in our region.

You can sign-up for an account on Spotify.com or download the apps for iOS here and Android here.

Lebanon among the countries requesting account information from Twitter

By Rami on February 17, 2014 in Lebanon

According to the latest transparency report published by Twitter, Lebanon is now among the countries that are requesting account information from them, as it has requested information about a few accounts somewhere between July and December 2013.

So if you’re planning to use Twitter to plot some evil plan, you now know the platform isn’t safe anymore!

via Al Hayat

Lebanese arrested for hacking e-mail accounts

By Rami on January 9, 2012 in Lebanon

I actually found this news a bit surprising because it’s the first time for me to read about people getting arrested for hacking e-mail and Facebook accounts in Lebanon.

The department of Public Relations at the ISF General Directorate announced that investigations were carried out by the Cyber Crime and Intellectual Property Rights Bureau Unit based on more than 70 complaints filed by citizens regarding stolen and hacked electronic accounts (e-mail and Facebook among others). The hackers blackmail the account owners and steal their identity to get large sums of money.

During inquiries, the first man admitted to having carried out acts of piracy and stolen around 600 emails, blackmailing their owners and stealing their identity to get large sums of money by transferring recharge card dollars to cellphones and selling them. These amounts reached around $200.000 and all the electronic equipment used was seized. Source

Still, the police might have chased these two because they went so far with the blackmailing they did.

Anyway, I personally know some people who do such things just for the fun of it. They go to some cafe offering wireless internet for the purpose of “stealing” Facebook session. Some tools to use in the process are widely available and are pretty easy to use if you have enough IT knowledge.

These people better know that things can turn really bad now that the Cyber Crime unit out and about. So unless you know how to really cover your tracks, just keep away from these stuff!

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