IRAN has been forced to take emergency action to protect its main oil terminal and other parts of its energy infrastructure after they came under a fresh wave of cyber attacks. Reports on semi-official news agencies said that the oil terminal, on Kharg Island near the neck of the Persian…
Iran readying hacker attacks on U.S. infrastructure, specialists say
Iran is recruiting a hacker army to target the U.S. power grid, water systems and other vital infrastructure for cyberattack in a future confrontation with the United States, security specialists will warn Congress Thursday. "Elements of the IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] have openly sought to pull hackers into the…
Iran: Oil industry safe after hacker attack, computer virus target computer systems
Industry's computer systems working well despite attack from hackers, computer virus, government minister says View full post on hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Computer Hacking
Iran oil terminal network hit by mystery “worm”
Iran appears to have has suffered a cyberattack that has disrupted and possibly damaged state websites and caused the facilities at the country’s key Kharg Island oil facility to be disconnected from the Internet, news agencies are reporting. The Iranian Mehr news agency briefly said that the Iranian Oil Ministry,…
Iran Investigating Suspected Cyberattack on Its Main Oil Export Terminal
A virus was detected inside the control systems of Kharg Island – which handles the vast majority of Iran's crude oil exports – but the terminal remained operational, a source at the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) said. The virus, which is likely to draw comparisons with the Stuxnet computer…
Banking System Vulnerability – 3 million bank accounts hacked in Iran
Banking System Vulnerability – 3 million bank accounts hacked in Iran Iran’s Central Bank has announced that the electronic information of 3 million customers of 10 Iranian banks have been compromised. These banks now require their customers to change their ATM pin numbers before they can access their account. This…
Report: Iran unplugs oil terminal from Internet
Iran has disconnected its oil ministry and its main crude export terminal from the Internet to avoid being attacked by computer malware, a semiofficial news agency reported on Monday. View full post on Security News Headlines – Yahoo! News View full post on National Cyber Security
Iran has repelled a cyber attack on Oil Ministry: report
TEHRAN, April 23 (MNA) – The Iranian Oil Ministry, the National Iranian Oil Company, and a number of other companies affiliated with the ministry, were targeted by a computer worm on Sunday, but the malware was detected before it could infect the systems, the Persian service of the Mehr News…
Mossad Cutting Back on Covert Operations Inside Iran, Officials Say
Israel’s intelligence services have scaled back covert operations inside Iran, ratcheting down by “dozens of percent” in recent months secret efforts to disable or delay the enemy state’s nuclear program, senior Israeli security officials tell TIME. The reduction runs across a wide spectrum of operations, cutting back not only alleged…
MTN’s cash, weapons and diplomatic influence in Iran
Cellphone giant MTN was so desperate to win a mobile operating licence in the “virgin” territory of Iran that it allegedly put together a package of bribes, trading opportunities in sophisticated weaponry, capital investment and diplomatic influence that the Islamic Republic could not resist. That is the claim of rival…
