http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8812230838 Fars News Agency 15 March 2010 TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran announced that it has arrested 30 individuals on charges of waging a US-backed cyber war against the country. A statement issued by Tehran's Public and Revolutionary Court on Saturday said that following a series of complicated security operations in area of information and communication technology, the country's security forces have identified the most important US-backed organized networks of cyber war launched by the anti-revolutionary groups and arrested 30 suspects. The statement added that the networks received US aids and served Washington through such anti-revolutionary groups as the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), monarchist groups and a number of other opposition groups. It further said that Washington provided such anti-Islamic Republic groups and networks with 70 million US-made anti-filtering softwares only during the recent demonstrations in Tehran in a bid to help them wage a psychological war against the Iranian nation and government. According to the statement, some of the charges leveled against these US-backed networks include establishment of an intelligence gathering network, specially to identify the country's nuclear scientists, provoking sedition and illegal demonstrations and rallies through releasing unreal and unfounded news and reports after the June presidential elections in the country and providing media and news support for the Jundollah terrorist group and the monarchist opposition groups. In November 2009, Iran's Police Chief Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam said the force plans to set up a 'cyber police' division to counter 'internet crimes'. Ahmadi-Moqaddam said the unit would be tasked with monitoring organized cyber crimes on the internet. ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Mon Mar 15 2010 - 23:16:57 PDT
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