12:25 GMT Cyber Watch Yesterday, news broke of a serious cyber exploit, with evidence pointing to Iran as the culprit. EFF offers an explanation of what happened. ReadWriteWeb reports it was most likely the now notorious, Iran Cyber Army, behind the attack–the same group that has now managed to hit a wide list of big [...]
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Rooz: The Eyes and Ears of the Green Movement
If in the past year, thousands of Iranians have been imprisoned, wounded, exiled, tortured and more than a hundred people have been killed on the streets, it is all because of the regime’s fear of the Movement’s expansion and its widespread use of violence against the people.
Iran’s Hidden Cyberjihad
Foreign Policy | June 7, 2010 By Abbas Milani Taking a cue from the Soviets, the regime is creating a new Iron Curtain — online. To the untrained eye or the rushed glance of a tourist, there is an eerie calm in Iran right now. And Iran’s brutal rulers have done everything imaginable to turn [...]
Iran’s Opposition Seeks More Help in Cyberwar With Government
(The New York Times) | March 18, 2010 Nazila Fathi At a time when the Obama administration is pressing for harsher sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program, democracy advocates in Iran have been celebrating the recent decision by the United States to lift sanctions on various online services, which they say only helped Tehran [...]
Report on the Operation of the Iran Cyber Army in Hacking Websites
(Payvand) | February 22, 2010 By Farvartish Rezvaniyeh, www.kaleme.com During the past few months, the activities of Iran’s Cyber Army have been noted by the Iranian and even the international media. The theory that these hacker groups are connected to the Iranian government was strengthened when, after several sites were hacked, they issued warnings to [...]
Selected Headlines – January 21, 2010
Previously, when posting selected headlines, we published one selected headline per post. Iran News Now will be trying out a new format for our selected headlines over the next few days. Based on your feedback we may continue with this format moving forward. Basically, we will publish a daily list of selected headlines, along with [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Iranian Cyber Army Strikes Again: Baidu, China’s largest search engine hacked!
China’s largest search engine, Baidu, has been hacked. For a period of time the website showed the following (click to enlarge): We do not yet know if this is the same individual or group that managed to change the IP address for Twitter several weeks ago, redirecting to a page with an image and text [...]
URGENT, BREAKING NEWS: Twitter “hacked” by Iranian Cyber Army
[Update: December 19] HomyLafayette has analysed the Iranian Cyber Army hack. Read it: Twitter homepage hacked by ‘Iranian Cyber Army’. The homepage of the microblogging service Twitter was briefly compromised by a pro-regime group or individual calling itself or himself the Iranian Cyber Army in the early hours (GMT) of Friday, December 18. Normal service [...]
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