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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Mysterious Cyber Attack on Iranian Oil Data
2012-04-23
Iran has confirmed that a cyber attack hit its Oil Ministry data systems. It claims there was no damage, but the National Iranian Oil Company website was inaccessible as of Monday.

Oil ministry spokesman Alireza Nikzad told the government-run Fars News Agency, "This cyber attack has not damaged the main data of the oil ministry and the National Iranian Oil Company since the general servers are separate from the main servers; even their cables are not linked to each other and are not linked to Internet service.

"We have a backup from all our main or secondary data, and there is no problem in this regard."
As the famous American philosopher Wednesday Addams would say, "wait..."
He said the virus was identified as "Viper" and was aimed at deleting data off the servers. The attack was focused on the Kharg Island oil export terminal, where 2.2 million barrels of crude oil are transferred every day.

Iranian officials last month said the country is strengthening its cyber power through a newly-formed Supreme Council of Cyberspace following the Stuxnet attack on its nuclear facilities last year, widely attributed to Israel and the United States.

The establishment of the agency, headed by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was seen by observers as a tool of the Islamic Republic to take more control over Internet users and content, including social networking that can be used to organize opposition elements.
Posted by:tipper

#4  Appoint Ming the Merciless to be tsar of all tsars.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2012-04-23 14:52  

#3  a newly-formed Supreme Council of Cyberspace

Supreme Council of Cyberspace? There's a name right out of comic book villainy. Ming the Merciless would be sooo jealous.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-04-23 14:48  

#2  One word:

Thumbdrives
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2012-04-23 14:24  

#1  attack by Data Djinns
Posted by: Frank G   2012-04-23 13:26  

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