[quote]NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — In April, Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer of F-Secure, a Finnish computer security firm, received an unusual email. It came from a scientist working at the Atomic Energy Agency of Iran, and read:
“I am writing you to inform you that our nuclear program has once again been compromised and attacked by a new worm with exploits which have shut down our automation network at Natanz and another facility Fordo near Qom.
“According to the email our cyber experts sent to our teams, they believe a hacker tool Metasploit was used. The hackers had access to our VPN. The automation network and Siemens hardware were attacked and shut down. I only know very little about these cyber issues as I am scientist not a computer expert.
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“There was also some music playing randomly on several of the workstations during the middle of the night with the volume maxed out. I believe it was playing ‘Thunderstruck’ by AC/DC.”
Hypponen was never able to confirm the claims. But the incident followed a spate of other attacks on Iranian infrastructure, like the Stuxnet “cyberweapon,” which infected systems at the Natanz nuclear enrichment plant in 2010 and crippled several thousand centrifuges in the process.
Now, it seems that the Iranians have had enough. In the past few weeks, Reza Taqipour, Iran’s minister of communication and information technology, called the global Internet “untrustworthy” and announced plans to disconnect key government ministries from the worldwide web by September.
“The regime no longer fears a physical attack from the West,” Mahmood Enayat, director of the Iran Media Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communications, told the Wall Street Journal recently. “It still thinks the West wants to take over Iran, but through the Internet.”
Commandeering nuclear sites through the use of technology is one way to “take over” a country. However, certain websites seem to stoke the Iranian government’s fears just as much.
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“We have identified and confronted 650 websites that have been set up to battle our regime — 39 of them are by opposition groups and our enemies, and the rest promote Western culture and worshiping Satan, and stoke sectarian divides,” conservative cleric Hamid Shahriari said in March. “We are worried about a portion of cyberspace that is used for exchanging information and conducting espionage.”
To that end, Iran’s Ministry of Communications and Technology has announced the launch of a domestic intranet — a completely closed loop that would leave Iranian citizens without online access to the rest of the world.
A photo from Ayatollah Khamenei's Instagram feed.
What would this mean for a country like Iran, which, according to Rafal Rohozinsky, a principal founder of the OpenNet Initiative, had the largest concentration of mainframe computers outside the U.S. in the 1970s, boasted a full IBM division in Tehran, and is more connected than anywhere else in the Middle East, save Israel? Can a nation simply flip a switch and disconnect itself from the web?[/quote]
[url]http://www.marketwatch.com/story/iran-threatens-to-disconnect-from-the-internet-2012-08-15[/url]
Wow
you uuh
you do that iran
Wow we made an entire country ragequit
[quote]In the past few weeks, Reza Taqipour, Iran’s minister of communication and information technology, called the global Internet “untrustworthy” and announced plans to disconnect key government ministries from the worldwide web by September.
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Of course there's always the chance he's right but how much are we gonna bet that their systems have godawful security?
what a loss
[QUOTE=supersnail11;37249917]what a loss[/QUOTE]
what a shame.
[QUOTE=supersnail11;37249917]what a loss[/QUOTE]
Actually it is. The closest Iran has ever come to a civil uprising under the new regime happened because of the internet.
And not a single fuck was given
Day 1, 14:00: Iran disconnects from the internet.
Day 1, 20:00: Iranian government overthrown by angry mob.
[QUOTE=supersnail11;37249917]what a loss[/QUOTE]
Iranians need the internet as much, if not more than Western internet users at this time. Don't just throw them in with Ahmadinejad.
Why the hell are the systems for their nuclear power plants not on their own dedicated lines, and instead running a VPN
read the article
iran is not disconnecting from the internet
only access to the internet at government sites
[QUOTE=Jocke;37249973]And not a single fuck was given[/QUOTE]
I give a fuck and you should too. Imagine if you were under threat of being destroyed by a nuclear armed nation controlled by a belligerent egotistic maniac, who happens to have the favour of the most powerful state ever to have existed! I think you might want to have open connections to the rest of the world to make a plea for peace, too.
Iran is not just Ahmedinejad.
[QUOTE=viperfan7;37250075]Why the hell are the systems for their nuclear power plants not on their own dedicated lines, and instead running a VPN[/QUOTE]
Because they're a bunch of idiots?
[QUOTE=Bletotum;37250137]read the article
iran is not disconnecting from the internet
only access to the internet at government sites[/QUOTE]
Read the rest of the article:
[QUOTE]To that end, Iran’s Ministry of Communications and Technology has announced the launch of a domestic intranet — a completely closed loop that would leave Iranian citizens without online access to the rest of the world[/QUOTE]
Iran threatens to disconnect from the Internet
"Ok."
[QUOTE=Mlisen14;37250154]I give a fuck and you should too. Imagine if you were under threat of being destroyed by a nuclear armed nation controlled by a belligerent egotistic maniac, who happens to have the favour of the most powerful state ever to have existed! I think you might want to have open connections to the rest of the world to make a plea for peace, too.
Iran is not just Ahmedinejad.[/QUOTE]
it was a joke (mine was at least)
Wouldn't it be easier to put their nuclear facilities in a closed LAN?
Didn't they wanted to do this last time and make their own version of the Iranternet?
good, less dicks on chatroulette
[QUOTE=Pie108;37250202]Wouldn't it be easier to put their nuclear facilities in a closed LAN?[/QUOTE]
Iran always takes the extra mile.
I guess it's time to go to war with iran, oppressing the people and what not.
[QUOTE=SilverKnight;37250385]I guess it's time to go to war with iran, oppressing the people and what not.[/QUOTE]
yeah let's kill a bunch of civilians and servicemen to protect the citizens of a country we have no interest in, sounds like a plan
So they can't, you know, disconnect only the servers that hold sensible data about their nuclear program from the internet?
As I recall, weren't reports saying that these things would have had to have gotten on to their systems through USB sticks? If true, then disconnecting itself from the internet won't prevent anything.
What fucktard decided to connect sensitive stuff like that to the internet?
Idiot
[QUOTE=Pie108;37250202]Wouldn't it be easier to put their nuclear facilities in a closed LAN?[/QUOTE]
No then they dont have facebook
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;37250659]As I recall, weren't reports saying that these things would have had to have gotten on to their systems through USB sticks? If true, then disconnecting itself from the internet won't prevent anything.[/QUOTE]
It would make it a lot harder.
[QUOTE=Fearlezz;37250688]No then they dont have facebook[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]“We have identified and confronted 650 websites that have been set up to battle our regime — 39 of them are by opposition groups and our enemies, [B]and the rest promote Western culture and worshiping Satan[/B], and stoke sectarian divides,” conservative cleric Hamid Shahriari said in March.[/QUOTE]
Made me laugh out loud. It just seems so bizarre.
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