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As the presidential elections draw near, tension mounts in Iran both in the real world and in cyberspace. On May 1, the official website of the country’s Basij military branch was taken down after a cyberattack was launched against it.
“Due to the impending vote, elements of the global arrogance have lau... |
3 May 2013
10:11 GMT |
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As reported, Iran has just been hit by a major earthquake that was felt by neighboring countries as well. The USGS says that its magnitude was one of 7.8, yet the Iranian Seismological Center places the shake at 7.5 on the Richter scale. Although detailed information concerning the earthquake and its impact on the ... |
16 April 2013
08:17 GMT |
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This April 16, at 10:44 UTC, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the country on Iran. News of this shake comes shortly after the country was hit by one other 6.3 magnitude quake. Information made available to the public by the USGS says that the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck at a depth of 9.4 miles (15.2 kilometers... |
16 April 2013
07:38 GMT |
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On April 9, a major earthquake struck close to a nuclear plant in Iran. Information shared with the public says that the quake's magnitude was one of 6.3, and that its epicenter was the city of Kaki, located at a distance of roughly 96 kilometers (approximately 60 miles) south of Bushehr. Specialists explain t... |
10 April 2013
02:21 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers have leaked confidential documents, reports, blueprints, passport scans, and other information they have allegedly obtained from high-profile organizations.
According to the hacktivists, the targets of this campaign, dubbed OpIranMenace, are the Export Development Bank of Iran, pipeline company Ark... |
23 March 2013
08:29 GMT |
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Back in 2011, Anonymous hackers initiated a campaign against the Iranian government. OpIran was halted until a few hours ago, when the Iranian regime announced that it blocked all “illegal” VPNs.
The hacktivists haven’t announced their immediate plans, but they’ve already started gathering su... |
11 March 2013
06:28 GMT |
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The internet in Iran is not what you'd call open. All sorts of content is blocked and there have been several rumors and hints of the country working on its own internal internet, to make sure it can control everything.
But as is always the case with censorship, people find a way around it. One popular way of c... |
11 March 2013
05:53 GMT |
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims to have successfully hacked a foreign spy drone during the Payambar-e Azam 8 (The Great Prophet 8) military exercises.
According to the Islamic Republic News Agency, IRGC monitored and controlled all foreign spy drones in the area during the wargames. The cou... |
25 February 2013
04:22 GMT |
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The Iranian regime has launched a rocket attack on Camp Liberty, the home of the Iranian opposition, killing several people.
Following the incident, the regime has launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack against the website of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance o... |
11 February 2013
07:07 GMT |
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While some still aren't convinced that Iran did in fact send a monkey into space and retrieved it alive, Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he was ready to become the country's first astronaut when the time comes.
Iran's space program, while criticized by many as a cover for nuclear miss... |
4 February 2013
15:11 GMT |
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This past Monday night, one of Iran's oil platforms sank to the bottom of the Persian Gulf, and those working on it were left with no choice except swim for their lives. For the time being, nobody can say for sure how it was that the 1,300-metric-ton platform ended up sinking with virtually no previous warning... |
4 February 2013
07:20 GMT |
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Iran has reportedly succeeded in sending a monkey into space as has been its ambition for a few years now, according to a local news agency.
The Iranian-built Kavoshgar rocket propelled the capsule containing the rhesus monkey 120 kilometers or 75 miles into the atmosphere. The "shipment" was returned intact to the ... |
28 January 2013
08:15 GMT |
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United States officials have insisted on numerous occasions that the Shamoon malware, the one used in the cyberattacks against Saudi Aramco, is the work of Iran. However, new evidence suggests that it could be the work of an extremist Islamist group based in Saudi Arabia.
US authorities have said that a malware deve... |
24 January 2013
04:43 GMT |
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Representatives of the Iranian Cyber Police (FATA) reveal that they’ve initiated an investigation into the distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks launched against the systems of Citibank.
According to Mehr News, the head of FATA, Brigadier General Seyed Kamal Hadianfar, claims that the attack has b... |
21 January 2013
07:06 GMT |
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General William Shelton, the head of the US Air Force Space Command, has revealed that the Unites States is aware of the fact that Iran has seriously improved its cyber capabilities after the Stuxnet incident.
“They are going to be a force to be reckoned with, with the potential capabilities that they will dev... |
18 January 2013
08:42 GMT |
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Iranian officials have come forward to deny the accusations made by the US, according to which, the country is behind the recent cyberattacks against financial institutions.
According to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Iran categorically denies the accusations, which it calls unfounded.
Officials highligh... |
11 January 2013
08:36 GMT |
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US officials say they’re certain that Iran is behind the recent attacks launched against financial institutions. They say that the cyberattacks are part of a covert operation that comes in retaliation for the attacks launched against Iran and the Western economic sanctions imposed on the country.
The intellige... |
9 January 2013
14:21 GMT |
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At the end of December 2012, Iran started conducting a six-day naval military exercise to see how well the country could defend its maritime borders. For the first time, the Velayat 91 drill also included cyber security exercises.
On the second day of the drill, a cyberattack against the Navy’s computer networ... |
3 January 2013
05:31 GMT |
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On Tuesday, the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported that industrial units, including a power station from the Hormozgan province of Iran, were hit by cyberattacks which leveraged a piece of malware similar to the notorious Stuxnet.
ISNA quoted Ali Akbar Akhavan, the head of provincial civil defense. Akhava... |
27 December 2012
03:20 GMT |
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A few days ago, Iran’s CERT issued an alert to warn organizations about a new data-wiping malware. Unnamed CIA sources say that this is actually part of a joint US-Israel cyberattack.
Former senior CIA officials close to the investigation have told ISSSource that the US and Israel are behind the attack, but it... |
21 December 2012
03:01 GMT |
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On Monday, we learned that Iran’s CERT issued a warning about a new piece of malware designed to wipe files from infected computers.
Experts from Kaspersky and Sophos have analyzed this new threat and they provide some interesting details.
It turns out that the malware is distributed as a self-extracting arch... |
18 December 2012
04:55 GMT |
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Iran’s Maher CERTCC has issued an alert to warn organizations about a new piece of malware that’s designed to wipe files from the computers it infects. The organization claims that antivirus solutions are not capable of detecting the threat. Symantec experts have also analyzed the malicious element and t... |
17 December 2012
06:00 GMT |
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Iran is on its way of debuting its very own, self-sustained, internet. It's not quite there yet, but it's working towards it. The latest milestone is a new site, dubbed Mehr, which is supposed to be the answer to YouTube.
But, while YouTube is full of smut, as we all know, Mehr will promote healthy family... |
10 December 2012
05:35 GMT |
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After hackers that call themselves Parastoo – Iranian word for swallow (the bird) – have attacked the systems of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), many people rushed to conclude that this appeared to be the work of Iran, or at least an entity that shared the country’s interests.
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6 December 2012
09:38 GMT |
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On Monday, we learned that some Anonymous hackers leaked the details of 5,000 Israeli officials. It’s uncertain if the hacktivists were the first to obtain the list, but it turns out that it has been put to good use by members of the Islamic Jihad militant organization.
The group, sponsored by Iran and labeled... |
20 November 2012
03:01 GMT |
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Iranian authorities have arrested a man suspected of hacking into more than 1,000 foreign websites. Most of his targets are from the United States and Israel.
According to Trend, the hacker claimed that he breached the US and Israeli websites out of curiosity and to demonstrate that they were not properly secured.
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13 November 2012
03:49 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta came forward to state that Iran was responsible for the cyberattacks launched against Saudi Aramco and RasGas. Furthermore, the official even pointed the finger at Iran for the cyberattacks on US banks.
However, Iranian officials have come forward with their own all... |
30 October 2012
10:52 GMT |
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United States officials aren’t the only ones who keep urging the government to establish efficient cyber defense systems to protect against foreign attacks. Iranian officials are doing the same.
According to Fars News Agency, the Head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jala... |
29 October 2012
08:32 GMT |
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Last week, US officials revealed that the origins of the attacks launched against Saudi oil giant Aramco and Qatari liquefied gas company RasGas were traced back to Iran. However, Iranian officials have denied the allegations.
Initial reports, citing sources close to the investigation, revealed that hackers from Rom... |
15 October 2012
03:48 GMT |
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In an interesting turn of events, an unnamed former US government official has revealed that the country is appointing Iran-based hackers as being the ones behind the attacks on Saudi oil company Aramco and Qatar’s natural gas producer RasGas. What’s interesting about this statement is the fact that sour... |
12 October 2012
07:20 GMT |
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Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC), a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company, revealed on Monday that it managed to successfully mitigate a cyberattack. The organization’s representatives pointed the finger at China and Israel as being the ones responsible for the attack.
The Iranian Students’ N... |
9 October 2012
09:20 GMT |
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Iran has been in the news quite a lot lately due to various internet attacks. The series of attacks on US banks have security experts and some US officials accusing Iran of being behind them.
But it seems Iran can get as good as it gives as it is now revealing that its own internet infrastructure has been unde... |
3 October 2012
10:27 GMT |
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Ever since the infamous Stuxnet virus hit the country’s nuclear facilities back in 2010, Iran has focused its efforts on developing all sorts of security solutions, and they’re even preparing to migrate all systems to a domestic Internet.
However, it seems that the country’s cyber specialists have ... |
2 October 2012
08:24 GMT |
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Iran is once again playing with its internet on/off switches, this time around re-enabling access to Gmail inside the country. The email site had been blocked since last week, but the government has now made the site available again. YouTube remains blocked and will remain so for the foreseeable future due to obviou... |
1 October 2012
10:08 GMT |
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In the past week, a hacktivist group known as Izz ad-Din al-Qassam launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against the sites of Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase. These incidents unearthed the fact that in the past year, a number of American financial institutions had suffered from cyberattacks launche... |
24 September 2012
07:28 GMT |
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Some time ago, we learned that Iran planned to disconnect its government agencies from the World Wide Web. It seems that the move has already started, officials reporting that all state organizations have already been connected to a secure “national information network.”
According to The Times of India,... |
24 September 2012
05:56 GMT |
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Soccer hooligans in Iran don't mess around when it comes to supporting their team. A grenade was thrown on the field during an Asian Champions League quarterfinal match.
The footage was captured in Iran, and the teams playing are Iranian Sepahan FC and al-Ahli SC from Saudi Arabia.
According to rt.com, the ma... |
21 September 2012
05:22 GMT |
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Blizzard has confirmed that it would no longer allow people in Iran to access the Battle.net online service, due to the U.S. trade restrictions and its economic sanction laws. Iran’s current political situation isn’t the best and it seems that this is now impacting the gamers currently residing in the Ar... |
29 August 2012
05:14 GMT |
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The Israeli hacker known as Yourikan has taken credit for breaching the official website of the Niroo Research Institute (www.nri.ac.ir) – an Iranian organization affiliated to the Ministry of Energy which focuses its efforts on the development of new technologies for the industry.
The website’s main pa... |
23 August 2012
04:32 GMT |
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An Israeli hacker that goes by the name of Yourikan (you-r!-k@n) is probably making Iranian officials proud of their decision to move sensitive government systems off the world wide web. He defaced a number of 91 websites from Iran, including the ones owned by state agencies, universities and high-profile companies.
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8 August 2012
04:48 GMT |
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Iran’s telecommunications minister has revealed the country’s plans to disconnect sensitive systems from public Internet. The measure should protect critical infrastructures from cyberattacks. Iran has been often targeted by powerful pieces of malware such as Stuxnet and Flame and in the past few years t... |
6 August 2012
08:59 GMT |
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is urging Apple to tweak its policy regarding sales to foreigners, following an incident at one of the company’s Georgia stores where a staffer refused to sell an iPad to an Iranian woman on grounds of speaking Farsi / Persian. America's largest Muslim civi... |
22 June 2012
06:21 GMT |
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A massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that targeted the Central Bank of Iran took down the organization’s website and disrupted its internal network’s activity on Tuesday.
According to The Algemeiner , which cites the Iranian Labour News Agency, the bank was attacked immediately after the... |
22 June 2012
05:19 GMT |
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Speaking Farsi in the Apple Retail Store will not only ensure that you walk out empty-handed, but possibly in tears, too. An Alpharetta (Georgia) woman got turned down by Apple’s retail staff after speaking Farsi in one of the company’s brick and mortar stores. Apple said it was simply following U.S. pol... |
19 June 2012
16:01 GMT |
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At the beginning of May we learned that Iranian Oil Ministry officials claimed to know the identity of the hackers and the reasons for which they attacked the government systems. If at the time they failed to make public the origin of the attempt, now they point the finger at the United States. According to Fars, re... |
11 June 2012
07:10 GMT |
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In an effort to keep users safe, Google has taken active steps to ensure their security, for example notifying users when Google believes their accounts may have been compromised or when they stumble upon an infected web page via Google Search or Chrome.
Now Google is taking another bold step by notifying users that... |
6 June 2012
08:00 GMT |
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Iran is not letting go of the Persian Gulf Google "scandal" and is now threatening to sue the company over the matter. What's more, Google should be expecting serious damages over the matter. Where exactly Iran is going to sue Google and on what grounds is another matter.
Perhaps trying to take a neutral stance... |
17 May 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Iran has long been blocking plenty of foreign websites, the large US ones in particular. Google, Facebook, Twitter are all blocked either permanently or intermittently. Of course, as anyone with even the slightest tech-savviness will tell you, filters, even the most sophisticated ones, can be relatively easily bypass... |
14 May 2012
07:20 GMT |
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Iran’s Information and Communications Technology Ministry has revealed that soon enough the country will start relying on antivirus software developed by local specialists, security solutions provided by other companies not being trustworthy.
Trend informs that Mohammad Hossein Sheikhi, an assistant professor ... |
3 May 2012
09:45 GMT |
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Officials from within the Iranian Oil Ministry claim to have discovered the true reasons for which their systems have recently been targeted by hackers.
According to Fars News, Deputy Oil Minister Hamdollah Mohammadnejad has revealed that the nature of the attack and the identity of the hackers have been discovered,... |
2 May 2012
06:46 GMT |
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