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Tag Archives: Iran
US warns of Iranian cyber threat
The DHS has issued three warnings in the last few days encouraging people to be on alert for physical and cyber attacks from Iran.
Iran’s APT33 sharpens focus on industrial control systems
Iran’s elite hacking group is upping its game, according to new evidence delivered at a cybersecurity conference this week.
Citrix admits attackers breached its network – what we know
On Friday, software giant Citrix issued a short statement admitting that hackers recently managed to get inside its internal network. According to a statement by chief information security officer Stan Black, the company was told of the attack by the FBI on 6 March, since when it had established that attackers had taken “business documents” […]
Sneaky phishing campaign beats two-factor authentication
Protecting an account with multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a no-brainer, but that doesn’t mean every method for doing this is equally secure.
CIA’s secret online network unravelled with a Google search
The US government is reeling from a catastrophic, years-long intelligence failure that compromised its internet-based covert communications.
Twitter publishes data on Iranian and Russian troll farms
Over 1m tweets show that we’re suckers for funny/sarcastic/edgy, not so much for blah-blah-blah “news” spreaders.
Iranian court beckons Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to answer accusations of privacy violation
An Iranian court has not only opened a case against Facebook’s instant-message services WhatsApp and Instagram; it’s also summoned that “American Zionist” Mark Zuckerberg himself to answer complaints of privacy violation.