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To no one's surprise, Google has confirmed that Iran is indeed blocking services that use SSL, at least part of them but probably all, but also other services such as YouTube. The move comes after plenty of similar attempts by the authorities there. There are even plans to build an alternative internet that woul... |
13 February 2012
16:40 GMT |
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It’s no secret that Israeli hackers have an online war going on with Palestinians and Saudi Arabs, but as it turns out, they also have a battle going on with hackers from Iran. The websites belonging to media outlet Press TV and the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education were breached and defaced by h... |
30 January 2012
09:32 GMT |
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Researchers from ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, and UCI, Irvine, in the United States released a paper in which they reveal the results of their experiments done with the purpose of simulating a Global Positioning System (GPS) attack, similar to the one allegedly used by Iran to capture the RQ-170 warplane.
The paper c... |
22 December 2011
02:59 GMT |
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A number of television networks in Iran have implied that a video game developer in the United States, Kuma Games, is actually a propaganda arm of the United States government, given the job of actually making titles based on US history that prop up the version of the state.Amir Mirza Hekmati, who is saying that... |
21 December 2011
09:05 GMT |
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An Iranian engineer that’s currently studying the captured US drone revealed that they managed to bring it down using a GPS vulnerability they knew about. According to CSMonitor, the warplane was based in Afghanistan, but with the aid of the GPS flaw they managed to reprogram it to land in Iran. After cuttin... |
16 December 2011
03:53 GMT |
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After Symantec did a little reverse engineering on the now infamous Stuxnet worm, many started pointing the finger at the US and Israel, especially since it was concluded that the piece of malware was designed to target a specific version of the Siemens SCADA programmable logic controls (PLC) operating in certain nuc... |
12 December 2011
07:16 GMT |
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Iran celebrates a major victory on the United States after they managed to take over the controls of an RQ-170 stealth drone by launching a cyber attack against it.
There was no physical weaponry utilized to bring down the aircraft, cyber weapons being much more effective in this case, DEBKAfile reports.
This ... |
10 December 2011
04:36 GMT |
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A brand new report says that Iranian authorities have outlawed the sale of Battlefield 3, the newest first person shooter from Electronic Arts, and have already started raiding shops and arresting their owners for selling the game even before the ruling went into effect.Iran is definitely not a country famous for its... |
29 November 2011
17:21 GMT |
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The issue of people tracking in dictatorial countries has surfaced once again with the latest finding that appoints British company Creativity Software as the one that supplies the Iranian government with the means to locate their citizens.
“Creativity Software can provide an end-to-end or bespoke solution to ... |
8 November 2011
09:47 GMT |
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According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake that struck the eastern parts of Turkey on Sunday, October 23, had a magnitude of about 7.2. The event occurred at around 1:41 pm local time (10:41 UTC), and caught people completely off-guard. The area in this NASA image focused just west of Lak... |
25 October 2011
01:08 GMT |
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Iran apparently tried to launch a rhesus monkey into space this September, but the mission was a failure. News outlets are now suggesting that the Iranian space program may have been stalled for a while, as the damage is being assessed.
Putting a live monkey in low-Earth orbit (LEO) would have represented a monum... |
13 October 2011
03:37 GMT |
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A rogue Google SSL certificate issued by DigiNotar, a Certificate Authority (CA) based in the Netherlands, was found in the wild being used in a man-in-the-middle attack against Gmail users.The certificate was spotted by an Iranian user when he tried to access Gmail thanks to an error displayed by Google Chrome.The c... |
30 August 2011
04:46 GMT |
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Media reports in Iran indicate that the country may have just launched its second satellite ever. The spacecraft, designed and built by Iranian scientists, took off aboard a Safir delivery system yesterday, June 15, reports currently making the rounds show. The Iranian government has tasked the Islamic Republic News ... |
16 June 2011
04:51 GMT |
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As the internet becomes more common place and is affecting more and more people in countless new ways, governments around the world are starting to adjust and aim to control it. Iran already has one of the most advanced internet censorship systems in the world, but this is no longer enough, it's now moving to di... |
30 May 2011
09:10 GMT |
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Iranian officials are reporting that government systems have come under attack from a new computer worm, which follows last year's Stuxnet incident.The announcement was made by Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, the leader of Iran's Passive Defense Organisation, a military unit responsible for defending ... |
26 April 2011
13:00 GMT |
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According to an announcement made on Thursday, March 17, Iran recently launched a new rocket into space, carrying on top of it a space capsule. The capsule was reportedly designed to accommodate a monkey. The launch took place on Tuesday, March 15, the release further shows. The announcement was made by the Islamic R... |
18 March 2011
04:35 GMT |
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New research suggests that Stuxnet was planted on computers at five different organizations in Iran in the hope that it will spread towards the final target.By analyzing the timestamps collected by 3,280 Stuxnet samples, security researchers from Symantec were able to determine that the original infections were part ... |
12 February 2011
05:16 GMT |
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Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) denied that cyber-attacks targeting the country's nuclear programme has affected centrifuges at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant."The viruses could not do anything to the Iranian centrifuges and did not affect the functioning of the Bushehr ... |
22 January 2011
05:49 GMT |
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Google has announced that it will begin offering some of its software in Iran where it was previously unable to, due to US restrictions. Now, Google Chrome, Picasa and Google Earth will be available for download to Iranian users. The move is possible due to some relaxation on restrictions on export to Iran, one of th... |
19 January 2011
04:31 GMT |
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admitted that several of the country's uranium enrichment centrifuges were affected by malware, indirectly positioning Stuxnet a strong candidate for the attack.During a press conference today, President Ahmadinejad was asked by journalists if the nuclear program was disrupt... |
29 November 2010
13:51 GMT |
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A new research paper says that existing nuclear deterrent measures at work in the United States are a danger to national security, and qualifies them as pure fantasy. The document shows that the new strategy, set in place this year, needs immediate revision.The paper appears in the SAGE publication Bulletin of Atomic... |
1 November 2010
07:42 GMT |
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Google Earth may finally be coming to people in Cuba, Iran and Sudan after having been blocked, along with any other US software downloads, in those countries as part of a trade embargo for the past couple of years. The US lifted the restrictions earlier this month, but the mapping software still isn't available... |
23 March 2010
06:08 GMT |
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There's one thing you can say about oppressive regimes, they don't give up easily. The fact that the cat and mouse game never ends doesn't seem to faze them too much. Case and point, there are now reports that the Iranian government has blocked Gmail in the country ahead of expected protests set for t... |
11 February 2010
05:01 GMT |
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Twitter doesn't really play on the same level as Google but says it admires the tech giant for its stance on China. The microblogging service is all about open communications, not the biggest topic on China's agenda, or at least that what cofounder and CEO Evan Williams is saying. As such, the company is l... |
28 January 2010
06:13 GMT |
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Recently, reports in the press stated that experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had drafted a secret paper, saying that Iran had the necessary expertise required to build a functional atomic bomb. Within a few hours after the report surfaced, officials from the United Nations nuclear watchdog pu... |
23 September 2009
03:51 GMT |
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The team behind one of Softpedia’s favorite freeware apps, Dropbox, has updated its blog with a rather interesting story on how people can use the cross-platform software to their advantage. As some of you may know, Dropbox is an online backup and sharing solution for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux that comes in b... |
7 August 2009
10:35 GMT |
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Almost at the same time as Google added support for the Persian language in its Google Translate service, Facebook also launched a version of its site in Persian. The social networking website was already working on Persian language support, but decided to step up its efforts and release it sooner than previously pla... |
19 June 2009
04:25 GMT |
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With the Iran protests still going and social media platforms getting a lot of attention in the process Google has decided to add the Persian (Farsi) language to its Google Translate service. The company rushed the Persian language support because of the unfolding events in Iran so there may still be problems with th... |
19 June 2009
03:40 GMT |
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As reported yesterday, Twitter delayed a scheduled maintenance downtime to keep its service available to those protesters in Iran who have used the micro-blogging site to stay informed about the aftermath of the elections held this Friday. The maintenance was undertaken as planned earlier today and in fact took about... |
17 June 2009
03:12 GMT |
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Twitter has been buzzing with messages regarding the recent Iranian elections and the topic is still among the most highly discussed today. In fact, the subject is of such importance that Twitter rescheduled a planned downtime that was to take place for maintenance purposes. The 90-minute maintenance was scheduled fo... |
16 June 2009
03:26 GMT |
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According to the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), traces of undeclared and illegal man-made uranium have been found in a small teaching reactor in Damascus, Syria. This is the second time when off-the-books uranium is found in the Middle Eastern nation, with previous traces identifi... |
8 June 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Iran announced on Tuesday that it had sent its first home-made satellite into orbit, aboard a delivery system that was also developed in the Middle-Eastern nation. The move was not well-received by leaders of the Western world, who already had tense relations with the Tehran regime, on account of the country's n... |
4 February 2009
08:51 GMT |
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After their recent Kavoshgar-2 rocket mission proved to be a success, as reported by the state media, the Iranian space experts plan for the following similar missions, Kavoshgar-3 and Kavoshgar-4, to carry animals into space prior to switching to manned missions. What kind of animals they are thinking about has not ... |
5 December 2008
03:02 GMT |
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The major concern of the Western countries related to the Iranian nuclear intentions were further fueled by today's launch of a "Kavosh 2" rocket, as reported by the national media. This is the latest in a series of evidence associated to the degree of advancement in their nuclear technology. Although the Irania... |
26 November 2008
09:43 GMT |
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The 14th of March will come hammering down a huge decision from the Iranian Government, that to shut the Internet down as a whole. Being ranked fourth in the top of press freedom infringing, after Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea, Iran won't have any type of online covering of the elections day. The governm... |
4 March 2008
15:16 GMT |
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Exactly a week ago, the state-run Iranian television published a brief news report which stated that Iran had officially opened its first space center and launched its first rocket into space. Not much has been said about the rocket, except that it carried a payload consisting of some scientific instruments to measur... |
11 February 2008
07:17 GMT |
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Iran had a field day on Monday after reporting that it had successfully launched into space its first rocket, thus becoming one of the 11 countries in the world to have capabilities of launching satellites into space. The launch hasn't been confirmed yet by the international community, but could be one of those ... |
4 February 2008
07:23 GMT |
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Not long ago, I have talked about the Iranian High Performance Computing Research Center (IHPCRC) having built an AMD Opteron based supercomputer. Having a high performance computer may not look like a criminal act, but, when applied to this specific country, it conflicts with U.S. antiterrorism trade restrictions th... |
12 December 2007
04:15 GMT |
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An Iranian computer research center in Tehran claims to have built a supercomputer out of AMD's Opteron processors. This is alleged to be the Middle Eastern country's most powerful supercomputer. Many people would rush to congratulate the Iranians for the new technological achievement but there is a big "bu... |
7 December 2007
04:36 GMT |
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The move by Yahoo and Microsoft comes after the U.S. administration has increased economic pressure on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government, which began about two weeks ago.A Yahoo spokeswoman told the Register, a British web site covering the online world that "Yahoo! continually reviews its business operations to ... |
9 November 2007
11:11 GMT |
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After countries such as Thailand or Turkey, Iran also restricted the access to Google, but it didn't provide any reason for this action. However, the country's officials said for AFP that they will deny the access to several resources because they were flagged as offensive. In case you didn't know, Ira... |
17 September 2007
09:24 GMT |
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Now, prayers will really have some space to pray. Just one problem with this masterpiece of hand-made craftwork: who's gonna bring it out and beat it? The huge carpet is a magnificent testimony of devotion and richness. Iranian authorities have unveiled the world's largest hand-woven rug at Tehran's op... |
3 August 2007
03:35 GMT |
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The most famous mummies are the ancient Egyptian ones, which are the result of human manipulation. But nature, too, can deliver mummies in some special conditions like extreme cold, dryness, and a naturally occurring mix of chemicals that can impede the decomposition processes. Low temperatures have preserved some In... |
4 July 2007
02:51 GMT |
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With all the war based video games out there, whether they are third-person/first-person shooters or real-time-strategy games, gamers totally forget that there are other ideologies out there, saying more than just killing nazies and commies. An article on The Taliya news shows how an RTS countering the "West's ... |
4 May 2007
18:36 GMT |
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Mobile phones are being manufactured in quite a few countries, with most phone companies opening factories in quite a few locations. Sony Ericsson, for example, has announced some time ago that it will begin to produce low-cost color screen and music phones in India, while Nokia has recently announced that it has cho... |
7 April 2007
03:06 GMT |
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In October last year, I was telling you about a movie that was bound to change the face of cinematography as we knew it. Now, in the light of recent events, I guess it's safe to say that '300', the recreation of the epic battle of the Spartans and the Persians, will probably change more things than tho... |
14 March 2007
06:50 GMT |
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