Thursday October 4, 2012

I've Been Thinking:

Iran admitted that they were victim to an aggressive cyber attack on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The admission is unusual and was broadcast on local TV. Iran does not like to admit that their infrastructure is exposed to soft attacks like hacking and viruses.

Mehdi Akhavan Behabadi who is the head of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, a new committee organized to try to defend Iran from these hacks said "we had a heavy attack against the country's infrastructure and communications companies which has forced us to limit the Internet."

He continued, "All of these attacks have been organized. And they have in mind the country's nuclear, oil, and information networks."

Iran is constantly being attacked. Iran also operates the largest internet filter in the world blocking out whatever they deem to be improper. And recently there has been a huge uproar among Iranians because their government has been blocking Gmail.

This admission could be a simple deflection - nothing having to do with Iran is what it appears to be on the surface. The Iranians are blaming the US and Israel for cyber attacks like Stuxnet and Flame and DUQU.

So yes, there are viruses and there are hackers hacking away at Iran. But this announcement could also easily be Iran's communication ministry deflecting responsibility for taking it too far and filtering their internet too much.

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