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Be afraid of the cyber threat from Tehran, advises House panel
Iran has reportedly invested "over $1 billion in developing their cyber capabilities." According to the Office of Management and Budget, federal agencies spent at least $13 billion during fiscal 2011 alone on unclassified cybersecurity efforts.
Obama sanctions those complicit in the 'malign use of technology' in Syria and Iran
Human rights abuses "facilitated by computer and network disruption, monitoring, and tracking" cause for U.S. sanctions.
U.S. counterterrorism system can handle Iranian threat to homeland, say experts
Even though Iran is a threat to the homeland, the United States is well-equipped to prevent attacks especially when it anticipates them, a former NCTC director.
Mid-East governments crack down on Internet freedom
A spate of reports suggest now is not a particularly good time for Internet and press freedom in the Middle East and nearby areas. The Palestinian Authority detained two journalists in recent weeks...
Acts of war in cyberspace will likely also be war crimes, says Ranum
The big problem with a cyber war is that the target would not just be military electronic infrastructure. It would likely be a nation's critical infrastructure, said Marcus Ranum while speaking March
Internet blackouts roll through Iran
Internet blackouts have been reported across Iran, with an increase in censorship reported since Feb. 9, when Google services and many non-Iranian websites were blocked for users, according to the...
Clapper sounds alarm on cyber capabilities of Iran, China and Russia
In unclassified testimony Jan. 31, top U.S. intelligence official James Clapper revealed little new but sounded alarm bells against an increasingly aggressive Iran and the cyber-intelligence
Social media a 'primary source' of intel, says FBI
Count the FBI as yet another federal agency seeking to refine raw social media into intelligence gold. Among the things the FBI says could be extracted from the mountain of tweet streams, blogs and
Swearing on Twitter could be sign of coming protests
Increased swearing on Twitter could be a sign of societal discontent, says a study from the Rand Corp that analyzed an archive of Tweets from 2009 with the hash tag #IranElection. In a report
IAEA details Iran's suspected path to nuclear weapons
Iran's questionable nuclear activities have added to the International Atomic Energy Agency's suspicions that its nuclear program is not exclusively peaceful, says a Nov. 8 IAEA report (.pdf). For
