Syria's Internet goes dark for several hours

A sustained Internet outage affected nearly the entire country on Thursday. (Credit: Renesys) After a more than seven-hour blackout, it appears the Internet has returned to Syria. On Thursday morning several Internet monitoring firms began reporting a halt of online traffic in and out of the war-torn country. While it was clear something was amiss, it was unclear who or what was causing the outage. In the past, players such as divergent as the online hacking collective Anonymous or the Syrian El...