Iranian experts have thwarted a massive cyber attack against the country's nuclear facilities after Iran and world powers met earlier this week in Moscow to discuss Iran's nuclear program, said Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi in a an expert meeting on "human rights and national security". Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi ...

By The Christian Science Monitor When digital sleuths found Flame a massive cyberespionage campaign targeting Iran they were astounded. Now, it seems, Flame was just the tip of the iceberg. Not unlike the fictional Mr. Phelps of "Mission Impossible," real-life spies today direct their computer cyberespionage programs to self destruct delete ...

Iran's Communications and Information Technology Minister Reza Taqipour says the government has ordered all executive apparatuses to set up cyber rescue teams in order to counter cyber attacks. The governments recent order follows a series of measures taken since 2010 when the countrys cyber infrastructures came under systemic attack by computer ...

This article was written byNicole Perlroth for the New York Times blog on July 9, 2012. A security firm said Thursday that it had discovered what it believed was the fourth state-sponsored computer virus to surface in the Middle East in the last three years, apparently aimed at computers in Lebanon. The firm, Kaspersky Lab, said that the virus ...

By USA Today In a bid to avoid future cyberattacks, Iran plans to unplug key government agencies from the Internet starting next month, the country's telecom chief says. The plan to build a closed, nationwide intranet began in 2005. Two years ago, a limited test network was launched in the province of Qom, site of Iran's holiest city. The ...

By RT, Published: June 22, 2012 After reports that the US designed the greatest cyber viruses in history with Flame and Stuxnet, Washington faces a predicament in justifying the duality in its cyber policy and defending its anti-piracy rhetoric. While the US has repeatedly condemned cyber-attacks and hacking when aimed at itself, Washingtons ...

In an effort to undermine Iranian nuclear program, US President Barack Obama decided to accelerate the cyber attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, New York Times reported. Participants in the Stuxnet program told NY Times it significantly expanding Americas first sustained use of cyber weapons and that ...

Israel vice Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Yaalon confessed on Monday to Israel's role in "Flame" virus, the latest piece of malicious software to attack Iranian computers, which was discovered by a Russian security firm that specializes in targeting malicious computer code. Speaking in an interview with Army Radio, Moshe Yaalon ...