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Iran holds exhibition on West’s nuclear sabotage attempts – Tehran Times

Iran holds exhibition on West's nuclear sabotage attempts
Tehran Times
Iran has repeatedly defused cyber worms and malware, including Stuxnet and Flame viruses that targeted the country's oil sector, which provides 80 percent of Iran's foreign revenue. In 2010, the so-called Stuxnet virus temporarily disrupted operation

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NSA net-security sabotage means the end of US Internet “stewardship” – Boing Boing

NSA net-security sabotage means the end of US Internet "stewardship"
Boing Boing
Speaking at a presentation in DC, Bruce Schneier nailed the strategic cost of allowing the NSA to sabotage Internet security through BULLRUN: it has cost the US government all credibility as a contributor to Internet governance. The total depraved 

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Iran Stops Several Acts of Sabotage against N. Facilities – Fars News Agency


Fars News Agency

Iran Stops Several Acts of Sabotage against N. Facilities
Fars News Agency
The head of Information Technology Organization of Iran, Ali Hakim Javadi, said earlier that the country's experts had managed to produce anti-virus software that could spot and remove the detected computer virus "Flame". Javadi said that the

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Black Budget: NSA’s Team of Elite Hackers Tasked with ‘Sabotage’ – Infosecurity Magazine

Black Budget: NSA's Team of Elite Hackers Tasked with 'Sabotage'
Infosecurity Magazine
This jives with conventional wisdom surrounding Stuxnet and Flame, the malware that was reportedly jointly developed by the US and Israel to target Iran's nuclear program. It's not all hacking and cyber-warfare though. Notably, the fiscal earmarking

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