“Security and intelligence agencies should be willing to engage in covert cyber attacks on enemy states using programs such as the Stuxnet virus that targeted Iran’s nuclear ambitions, a report concluded. The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) said it was not enough to just defend aga...
“From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program....
“A Russian-based internet security firm says a powerful computer virus with unprecedented data-snatching capabilities has attacked machines in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East.” (Source: The Associated Press: Russian firm: Iran victim of another cyberattack.) Original Source...
” Iran’s telecommunications ministry has barred local banks, insurance firms and telephone operators from using foreign-sourced emails to communicate with clients, a specialist weekly said on Saturday.” (Source: AFP: Iran curbs foreign-sourced email providers.) Original Source...
“Iran is investigating a suspected cyber attack on its main oil export terminal and on the Oil Ministry itself, Iranian industry sources said on Monday. “ Source: Suspected cyber attack hits Iran oil industry | Reuters Original Source...
Iran’s Minister of Communications has announced that the launch of the “national internet”, which was scheduled for February, has been postponed to June. The Mehr News Agency reports that Reza Taghipour said in a meeting on Saturday: “Supporting local software and creating se...
Iran has been identified as the main cyber threat to the United States as the office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) claims that intrusions are not being detected....
The State Department booted a Venezuelan consul general over an alleged plot among Venezuela Iran and Cuba diplomats to start a cyberattack against Washington....