Source: Al Arabiya
Iran’s telecommunications ministry has barred local banks, insurance firms and telephone operators from using foreign-sourced emails to communicate with clients, a specialist weekly said on Saturday.
Tag Archives: Iran
Iran curbs foreign-sourced email providers
May 12, 2012 – 2:49 pm
Iran Cyber Watch: May 4 – 11, 2012
May 11, 2012 – 4:17 pm
This week in Iran Cyber Watch: Cause of cyber attack on Ministry of Oil, ban on foreign E-mail addresses, the Supreme Leader’s religious orders on the use of circumvention tools, and more.
Iran Cyber Watch: April 30 – May 4, 2012
May 4, 2012 – 9:27 pm
This post is the first in a new series tracking the latest news and updates on the status of Internet controls and circumventions in Iran compiled by ASL19.
Richard Clarke says Stuxnet was a US Operation
March 29, 2012 – 9:13 pm
Source: Jack Goldsmith, Lawfare
The former counterterrorism czar reaches this conclusion because the operation had lawyers’ fingerprints on it.
Iran’s censors tighten grip
March 16, 2012 – 9:37 pm
Source: Farnaz Fassihi, The Wall Street Journal
Iran hasn’t been shy about its bids to monitor, filter and block content on the Internet. Now it has taken the next leap, turning online censorship into an institution.
Activists in Iran and Syria targeted with malicious computer software
March 15, 2012 – 9:28 pm
Source: Tor
In February 2012 we learned that activists in Iran and Syria were targeted with two different types of malicious computer software.
BBC suffers cyber attack following Iran campaign
March 13, 2012 – 10:36 am
Source: Reuters
The BBC has suffered a sophisticated cyber-attack following a campaign by Iranian authorities against its Persian service, director-general Mark Thompson said on Wednesday.
‘Iran Cyber Army’ hits state TV site
February 23, 2012 – 11:41 am
Source: Agence France-Presse
Hackers calling themselves the ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ have attacked the website of mainly Muslim neighbour Azerbaijan’s state television station, the communications ministry said on Thursday.
Iran cracks down on satellite dishes as U.N. body bans signal jamming
February 22, 2012 – 1:37 pm
Source: Ali Gharib, ThinkProgress
A U.N. body that regulates telecommunications ruled that Iran, among other nations, must stop jamming and interfering with international broadcasts.
Iran’s deadly cyber police
February 16, 2012 – 12:25 pm
Source: Violet Blue, ZDNet
Iran’s recent death sentence of a developer and internet traffic throttling are only part of Iran’s wider campaign against bloggers, technology, and the free-flowing information of the internet.
