Iran shuts down oil infrastructure after cyber attack

Iran shuts down oil infrastructure after cyber attack
VentureBeat
Iran shut down Internet access to its oil terminals today following a cyber attack that is said to have begun on Sunday afternoon. The Oil Ministry shut down Internet access to all of its oil facilities, operations, and rigs soon after finding the ...

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Iran says it fended off cyber attack on its IT systems
Reuters
By Marcus George | DUBAI (Reuters) - The Iranian oil ministry said on Tuesday its IT systems had suffered no lasting damage from a suspected cyber attack, but its experts would require two or three days to investigate and address the impact of the ...

The Internet's Political Voices Are Lining Up To Smash CISPA
Forbes
Supporters of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act be warned: The fight against CISPA is shaping up, and the Internet is definitively not on your side. On Monday, a group of more than fifty professors, entrepreneurs and information ...

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Beefing up cyber security
Los Angeles Times
Now, lawmakers are considering whether to vastly expand the government's role in protecting Internet services and corporate computer networks against cyber attack. But while the online securitythreats are serious, encouraging private industry to ...

Cyber Attack on Iran Hasn't Impacted Oil Exports, Shargh Reports
Bloomberg
A cyber attack that targeted Iran's oil ministry and affiliated state companies has not affected the country's crude exports, Shargh reported, citing unidentified oil officials. The computer systems of the National Iranian Oil Co. weren't damaged and ...

Iranian Oil Industry Hit with Cyber Attack
DailyTech
Reports claim that the Iranian oil industry has been hit with a large cyber attack. Iran has disconnected computer systems at a number of its oil production facilities from the web in response to a cyber attack that occurred over the weekend.

DailyTech

UDPATE:Cyber-Attack Targets Iran Oil, But Exports Normal-Officials
Wall Street Journal
By Benoit Faucon Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON (Dow Jones)--Iranian authorities are investigating alleged cyber-attacks against Iran's oil ministry and possibly against the key export hub, though oil shipments haven't been affected, ...

Iran halts 'cyber attack' on its oil servers
AFP
Hamdolah Mohammadnejad, a deputy oil minister heading up a crisis committee to counter what officials described as a "cyber attack," told the official IRNA news agency that the virus's impact had been limited by rapid action.

AFP

Reported cyber attack on Iran's oil industry doesn't bear hallmarks of past ...
Haaretz (blog)
By Anshel Pfeffer Tags: Iran nuclear Iran threat Iran Monday's announcement by the Iranian Oil Ministry that it had detected a cyber attack on its computers and those of the central oil export companies and installations immediately bring to mind the ...

Haaretz (blog)

Iran halts 'Cyber-attack' on its oil servers
Al-Arabiya
Iran's oil facilities will resume operation despite cyber- attack that hits its services on Monday. (File photo) By AFP Iran said on Tuesday it had halted the spread of a data-deleting virus targeting computer servers in its oil sector, ...

Al-Arabiya

'Catastrophic cyber attack' possible says US Rep Rogers
Lansing State Journal
Mike Rogers on possible cyber attacks a...: US Rep. Mike Rogers speaks on the likelyhood ofcyber attacks against the US Imagine a personal computer virus attacking and crippling entire financial, energy or electric grid digital networks.

61 percent of IT security professionals fear Anonymous, hacktivist attacks
msnbc.com
Nearly two-thirds of IT security professionals worldwide believe their companies will be the target of a cyber attack in the next six months, and 61 percent say thatAnonymous and other hacktivist groups will be most likely the ones to target their ...

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Iran's Oil Industry Faces Cyber Attack
RedOrbit
An Iranian news agency reported on Monday that the Iranian oil ministry's computer network came under cyber attack, according to reports by the Associated Press (AP) and Reuters. Mehr reported that the Islamic Republic has disconnected the country's...

RedOrbit

Iran claims to thwart cyber attack
The Daily Telegraph
Oil target: Iran said it has halted a cyber attack on servers connected to the oil industry after being struck by a data-deleting virus. Source: AP IRAN said it had halted the spread of a data-deleting virus targeting computer servers in its oil sector ...

National Cyber Security Alliance Announces 2012 Board Leadership
MarketWatch (press release)
The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a non-profit public-private partnership focused oncybersecurity awareness and education for all digital citizens, announces its newly elected board leadership for 2012. The board officers and executives ...

Suspected cyber attack hits Iranian oil network
msnbc.com (blog)
By msnbc.com and news services DUBAI - Iran was investigating a suspected cyber attack on its main oil export terminal and on the Oil Ministry itself, Iranian industry sources said on Monday. A virus was detected inside the control systems of Kharg ...

Iran oil ministry under cyber attack
The Nation, Pakistan
TEHRAN - Iran's oil ministry and its affiliates have come under a “cyber attack” and a specialised team has been assembled to confront it, Iranian media reported on Monday. The Mehr news agency reported that the oil ministry website, as well as that of ...

The Nation, Pakistan

The Circuit: The future of television, Obama targets human-rights abuses ...
Washington Post (blog)
Cyber week hits the House: The House will vote on four cybersecurity bills this week, including the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which is designed to make it easier for companies and the government to share ...

Cyber attack knocks Iran oil company website offline
Gant Daily
Tehran, Iran (AHN) – The website of Iran's national oil company remained offline Monday after being hit by a cyber attack the day before. The oil export terminal in Kharg island and its equipment were also disconnected from the Internet as a precaution ...

Iranian oil industry comes under cyber-attack
Calgary Herald
Richard Spencer The Telegraph Iran has been forced to take emergency action to protect its main oil terminal and other parts of its energy infrastructure after they came under a fresh wave of cyber-attacks. Reports on semi-official news agencies said ...

Iranian oil sector under cyber attack
TG Daily
The virus has prompted government officials in Tehran to form a "cyber crisis team" and unplug Kharg island - Iran's main oil export terminal - from the Internet. "This cyber attack has not damaged the main data of the oil ministry and the National ...

TG Daily

Iranian oil industry hit by cyber-attack
GlobalPost
Iran has been forced to disconnect key oil facilities after suffering a cyber-attack late Sunday. Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful and was enraged by the EU's decision in January to impose a boycott on its oil. It responded by threatening ...

Iran's Oil Ministry forms cyber crisis center
Ynetnews
The Iranian Oil Ministry has formed a crisis center to deal with the recent cyber attack on the country's oil export facilities, Ynet learned Tuesday. Hamdollah Mohammad Nejad, head of the Oil Ministry's Passive Defense Office, said that the ministry's ...

Cyber Security and Advanced Malware [Infographic]
WebProNews
By Shawn Hess · 58 mins ago · Leave a Comment I'm sure this is not news, but over 60% ofsecurity and IT professionals think their organization will be the victims of some type of cyber attackwithin the next six months. That's an awful large group of ...

Cyber-Attack Strikes Iran Oil Industry
ITProPortal
Iran's oil ministry has admitted that its website and systems came under cyber-attackat the weekend. The Mehr News Agency, the semi-official arm of the Iranian regime, reported yesterday that Iran's main oil terminal on Kharg Island was disconnected ...

ITProPortal

Pentagon Cyber-Sharing Project Expanding to 200 Companies
BusinessWeek
By Gopal Ratnam and Tony Capaccio on April 24, 2012 The US Defense Department wants to expand a pilot project for sharing information on cybersecurity threats among its contractors to 200 companies from the current 37, Teri Takai, the Pentagon's Chief ...

Why the House Homeland Security Committee is on the cybersecurity sidelines
Nextgov
Conspicuously absent from the House's "Cyber Week" agenda is the Homeland SecurityCommittee's Precise Act, which cleared a subcommittee by voice vote in February. Now, what was once a bipartisan bill is bogged down and on hold and the committee has ...
Iran oil industry hit by suspected cyber attack | Technology | AMEinfo ...
The Iranian oil ministry, the National Iranian Oil Co (NIOC) and a number of other companies affiliated with the ministry have been targeted by a computer worm on Sunday, but the malware was...
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Secret religious right Facebook group plotting cyber attack on gay ...
By alvinmcewen
Secret religious right Facebook group plotting cyber attack on gay community. Posted by alvinmcewen on @ 5:02 am. Article printed from speakeasy: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy. URL to article: ...
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Can NATO's cyber defence outfox the “Hacktivist's”
By Admin
The NATO Policy on Cyber Defence, adopted June 2011, lays the groundwork for a response tocyber-attack under Article V of the Washington Treaty, wherein an attack on one NATO Ally is treated as an attack on all. NATO's Policy on Cyber Defence ensures that “NATO will provide coordinated assistance [...] ... Can NATO's cyber defence outfox the “Hacktivist's”. on April 24, 2012 in blog, Security in the 21st Century, Social Media / no comments. The NATO Policy on CyberDefence, ...
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Iran Took Systems Offline After Cyber Attack Hit Oil Industry « The ...
By Rj
Iran disconnected computer systems at a number of its oil facilities in response to a cyber attackduring the weekend, according to reports. A source at the National ... Hackers for hire testing corporate security systems · How Think Tanks Think ...
The Daily Attack

Cyber attack knocks Iran oil company website offline | Wall-Street ...
Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer. Tehran, Iran (AHN) – The website of Iran's national oil company remained offline Monday after being hit by a cyber attack the day before. The oil export terminal in Kharg island and its equipment ...
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eConflicts: New Book - Cyber Conflict: Competing National ...
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Through an empirical, conceptual and theoretical approach, Cyber Conflict has been written by researchers and experts in the fields of cyber security, cyber defense and information warfare. It aims to analyze the processes of information warfare and cyber warfare through historical, operational and strategic perspectives of cyber attack. It is original in its delivery because of its multidisciplinary approach within an international framework, with studies dedicated to different states ...
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XE.com - Iran says it fended off cyber attack on its IT systems
The Iranian oil ministry said on Tuesday its IT systems had suffered no lasting damage from a suspected cyber attack, but its experts would require two or three days to investigate and address the impact of the virus. ... Security specialists say the latest problems in Iran's IT systems could be an attempt to impair Iran's ability to trade in oil, or might even have been a technical failure. The United States and its allies have imposed increasingly tough sanctions against Iran's oil industry over...
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Iran says oil industry under cyber attack | PrairiePundit
By Merv
Iran says oil industry under cyber attack. Reuters: Iran is investigating a suspected cyber attack on its main oil export terminal and on the Oil Ministry itself, Iranian industry sources said on Monday. A virus was detected inside the control ...
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Information Dissemination: Iran, China, and Cyber Posses
By noreply@blogger.com (Chris Rawley)
The barriers to entry for cyber-attack are fairly low. ... Mr. Krepinevich accurately articulates the issues facing the United States via the proliferation of high technology warfare, including PGMs,cyber, bio, etc. ... companies were slow to realize that the First World's expensive navies would not always be in the right place, at the right time, with the right ROE in the vast Indian Ocean to protect them from pirates, so they took matters into their own hands with embarked armed security guards.
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Cyber Security: Let's Contract Out to People Who Know What They ...
By Seton Motley
Seton Motley is a consultant and the founder and president of Less Government, an organization dedicated to, well, less government. He is editor-in-chief of StopNetRegulation.org, a Center for Individual Freedom project. Tweet · Email This ...
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Iran oil sector hit by 'cyber attack' | Pakistan Today | Latest news ...
By anjum
TEHRAN - A voracious virus attack has hit computers running key parts of Iran's oil sector, forcing authorities to unplug its main oil export terminal from the Internet and to set up a cyber crisis team, according to reports on Monday. The Mehr news agency reported that .... Merciless killing of shia muslims and hindu minorities in karachi and no govt support for their security....,who will then take care of minorities in an Islamic sunni dominated pakistan? Pakistan today is totally under the ...
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Iran,Oil Industry under cyber attack,are we close to a military strike ...
A new cyber attack against Iran, in particular this time the Oil Industry was the target of a Malware Attack. The news was widespread by Officials in the Iranian oil ...
securityaffairs.co/.../iranoil-industry-under-cyber-attackare-we...

Iran halts 'cyber attack' on its oil servers | The Raw Story
Hamdolah Mohammadnejad, a deputy oil minister heading up a crisis committee to counter what officials described as a “cyber attack,” told the official IRNA ...
www.rawstory.com/.../iran-halts-cyber-attack-on-its-oil-servers...

Nissan Scrambles After Major Cyber-Attack | TheDetroitBureau.com
Nissan is racing to recover from a concerted cyber-attack but claims neither customer data nor vehicle program files were compromised. The attack is part of a ...
www.thedetroitbureau.com/.../nissan-scrambles-after-major-cy...

Iran says it fended off cyber attack on its IT systems - Yahoo! News
DUBAI (Reuters) - The Iranian oil ministry said on Tuesday its IT systems had suffered no lasting damage from a suspected cyber attack, but its experts would ...
news.yahoo.com/iran-says-fended-off-cyber-attack-systems-0...

Suspected cyber attack hits Iran oil industry | Defense Technology ...
A voracious virus attack has hit computers running key parts of Iran's oil sector, forcing authorities to unplug its main oil export terminal from the Internet and to ...
www.defencetalk.com/suspected-cyber-attack-hits-iran-oil-ind...

Iran Suffers Cyberattack to Main Oil Export Facility, Forced to ...
TEHRAN, Iran (The Blaze/AP) — An Iranian official says the country's oil industry is working well despite an attack from hackers and a computer virus that ...
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