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Iran busts US-linked internet spy gang

Apr 4th

Posted by Freak in Geek

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March 2010

http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/Science/20100314/1464200.html

Iran claimed to have busted a spy racket allegedly linked with the US intelligence agency CIA and arrested 30 people for operating an internet network to gather secret data related to Iran’s nuclear scientists.

The Judiciary said Saturday it has dismantled a US-backed cyber network, which was set up to gather information on Iran’s nuclear scientists and spread unrest after the presidential election.

The nexus was formed by anti-Iran groups, including the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO), the Judiciary said in a statement, adding that 30 suspects have been arrested.

According to Iranian authority, during former US President George W Bush’s regime, a new campaign in the intelligence front – the “cyber war” – was set up to engage Iran, with the help of the MKO, pro-monarchy groups and other anti-Iran cells.

“Iran proxy”, which was one of the main projects of the campaign, received $50 million from the CIA and the US State Department, the statement said.

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Spies and hackers exploit world cyber rule void

Feb 25th

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William Maclean, Security Correspondent

Reuters

Feb 22, 2010

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE61L37B20100222

LONDON (Reuters) – The best weapon against the online thieves, spies and vandals who threaten global business and security would be international regulation of cyberspace.

Luckily for them, such cooperation does not yet exist.

Better still, from a hacker’s perspective, such a goal is not a top priority for the international community, despite an outcry over hacking and censorship and disputes over cyberspace pitting China and Iran against U.S. firm Google.

Nations are thinking too parochially about their online security to collaborate on crafting global cyber regulation, an EastWest Institute security conference heard last week.

Policy statements from governments around the world are dominated by the need to heighten national cyber defenses. As a result, too many cyber criminals are getting a free ride.

“Nations are in denial,” a cyber law expert told Reuters, saying national legislation was of limited use in protecting users of a borderless communications tool.

“It may take a big shock of an event to wake people out of their complacency, something equal to a 9/11 in cyberspace,” he said referring to the 2001 coordinated attacks on U.S. cities.

With a quarter of humanity connected to the Internet, cyber crime poses a growing danger to the global economy.

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