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Iran hacks opposition Web sites, arrests cyber activists

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps hacked into 29 Web sites affiliated with U.S. espionage networks, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Sunday.

By Sumner Lemon | 15 March, 2010 06:43

Tags: iran, cyberattacks, hacking
Iran suspending Google's Gmail, reports say

Iran's government, looking to quell opposition, is shutting down Google's Gmail e-mail service within the country, reports said today.

By Sharon Gaudin | 11 February, 2010 10:01

Tags: iran, Gmail
Proxy servers pressed into action to keep Web access in Iran

An inspection of the proxy servers offered up online over the past few days as a way to help Iranians maintain access to unfiltered Web content, shows that the servers are being hosted in as many as 87 countries.

By Jaikumar Vijayan | 23 June, 2009 08:28

Tags: iran, proxy servers
Analysis confirms Internet clampdown in Iran

An analysis of the network traffic in and out of Iran over the last few days during the turmoil surrounding the election is offering a clearer picture of how the manipulation of Internet traffic within the country is affecting access to certain kinds of online content.

By Jaikumar Vijayan | 22 June, 2009 08:21

Tags: arbor networks, iran, firewalls
Twitter plays key role in DoS attacks in Iran

The unrest in Iran is serving as a warning on how easy it is for individuals and groups to use a social networking tool like Twitter to mobilize a cyber-army against a political or commercial target anywhere in the world.

By Jaikumar Vijayan | 19 June, 2009 09:42

Tags: iran, twitter

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Features about iran

Five technologies Iran is using to censor the Web

One month after a disputed presidential election sparked widespread unrest in Iran, the country's government has initiated a cyber-crackdown that is challenging hackers across the globe to find new ways to help keep Iranian dissidents connected to the Web.

By Brad Reed | 21 July, 2009 10:51

Tags: iran, censorship, internet content filtering
Spammers cashing in on Twitter, Iran, new iPhone

Spammers are never far from a hot story, it seems, and in the past day they've been flooding Twitter with phoney messages about Iran and the latest iPhone 3.0 operating system.

By Robert McMillan | 19 June, 2009 08:37

Tags: iran, Spammers, spam, twitter
Google adds Persian to machine translation service

As the Internet becomes a more important path for information between Iran and the rest of the world, Google has added support for Persian to its Google Translate service.

By Martyn Williams | 19 June, 2009 16:25

Tags: iran, Google Translate, Persion, translation