Cyberwar: Iran 2009 Part IV
This entry is part of a wonderful series, [slider title="Cyberwar Iran"]Entries in this series:
- Cyberwar: Iran 2009 Part I
- Cyberwar: Iran 2009 Part II
- Cyberwar: Iran 2009 Part III
- Cyberwar: Iran 2009 Part IV
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part V
- Cyberwar Iran: 2009 Part VI
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part VII
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part VIII
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part IX
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part X
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part XI || The Revolution Will Be Uploaded
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part XII || The Onion Router - "TOR" and Iran
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part XIII || A World ATwitter || Tweets About The Iran Uprising
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part XIV - Iran's Disinformation Campaign
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part XV - The Iran-Siemens Affair
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part XVI - A Formal Declaration of (Cyber)war !
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part XVII - Follow the Money
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part XVIII - This Just In
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part XIX - Return of (Green) Jedi
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part XX - The Lebasi-Lebanese Menace
- Cyberwar Iran 2009: Part XXI - 2010, A Legal Odyssey
Cyberwar Weapon Sharing
And the attacks are getting more detailed with websites and even TOOL PACKAGES being distributed:
02:18 xxxxx How to DDOS (in a good way) Iran’s state-run media website. Please RT. http://twurl.nl/xxxxx #iranelection
And
02:19 Cyberwar DDoS package being distributed to take down Iranian gov sites. http://tinyurl.com/xxxxGet flood and ping flood. <– the tool was aptly named, StopAhmadiOnline.zip
And, of course, facebook is harnessed to the effort and used to disseminate information about the status and about the DDoS attacks:
Open Proxy Sharing Facebook is even used to disseminate info, both inside Iran and out, on how to bypass government filters, for example using open proxies:
Categories: Cyberwar, General Security, Iran Cyberwar, ddos attacks, facebook, iranelection, iranian, open proxies, ping flood
