Custom blocking tools have replaced brute-force shutdowns.
View of the skyline in Tehran, Iran on Saturday, Aug. 18, 2007. Educated, ambitious and connected to the outside world by the Internet, under-30s make up two-thirds of Iran's 70 million people and want President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to come good on his promises to tackle unemployment and make "marriage and housing'' his government's priority. Photographer: Abbas Kowsari/Bloomberg News
The Microsoft campus in Mountain View, California, US, on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to release earnings figures on October 29. Photographer: Benjamin Fanjoy/Bloomberg
Hackers have struck elite US universities in recent weeks, pilfering sensitive data from donors and making off with students’ information in a string of digital heists that only add stress to schools already besieged with political pressure.
Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.