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• Security experts warn of cyber threats from Iran

  By Kenneth Corbin | 27 April, 2012 08:55

  A panel of experts warned lawmakers on Thursday about the looming threat of a cyber attack emanating from Iran, an increasingly isolated nation that has been linked to numerous attacks against the United States in recent years including a plot last year to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.C.

• Iran admits Stuxnet worm infected PCs at nuclear reactor

  By Gregg Keizer | 28 September, 2010 02:57

  Although some computers at Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor were infected by the Stuxnet worm, none of the facility's crucial control systems were affected, Iranian officials claimed Sunday.

• Iran hacks opposition Web sites, arrests cyber activists

  By Sumner Lemon | 15 March, 2010 06:43

  Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps hacked into 29 Web sites affiliated with U.S. espionage networks, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Sunday.

• Iran's leaders fight Internet; Internet wins (so far)

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 18 June, 2009 07:51

  Iran's government in recent days has tried to cut off Internet access for most of its election protestors by shutting down routers at the nation's perimeters, ripping satellite dishes off roofs, cutting cables and turning off telephone switching networks.

• Facebook blocked in Iran ahead of elections

  By John Ribeiro | 26 May, 2009 08:29

  Social networking site Facebook has been blocked in Iran since Saturday, according to the country's opposition, as opposition voters increasingly turn to online tools like social networking to promote their candidates.