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Iran Moves Websites In-House to Protect Against Attacks

December 21, 2011 — According to a Reuters report published Tuesday, the government of Iran has moved most of its government websites away from hosting providers based in other countries, and into new facilities located inside Iran, in an effort to protect those sites against attack.

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GlobalSign Stops Issuing Certificates as DigiNotar Hacker Investigations Continue

September 7, 2011 — Security firm GlobalSign has temporarily stopped issuing certificates in response to the DigiNotar hack, according to an announcement by the company on Tuesday. The person responsible for the hacks, Comodohacker, allegedly has access to GlobalSign as well, according to the report.

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Report Finds Hacker Used Fake SSL Certificates to Spy on Iranian Gmail Accounts

September 6, 2011 — The number of fraudulent SSL certificates issued by DigiNotar has ballooned to 531, and the list of domains for which the SSL certificates were registered includes sites belonging to the CIA, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter, among others, according to a report by CNET.

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Iran Says it Was Targeted by Another Stuxnet-Like Worm, Stars

April 25, 2011 — In a report published Monday by Iran’s Mehr News Agency, an Iranian general involved in investigating the Stuxnet worm, which targeted Iran’s nuclear infrastructure last year, said the country has been targeted by a second worm, called Stars.

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Lone Iranian Hacker Claims Responsibility for SSL Breach

March 28, 2011 — According to several reports published Monday, a lone Iranian hacker has claimed responsibility for the Last week’s SSL certificate hack that targeted several major online communications tools, including Hotmail, Skype, Gmail and others. The hacker reportedly backed up the claim in a post on the document-sharing site Pastebin.

Web Hosting Year in Review: Spam, Scams and Malware

December 31, 2009 — Even though spam levels are down from this same time last year, spammers and bot herders will continue to plague the Internet until those responsible face prosecution for their crimes. For the time being, however, many more institutions are picking up the fight and are actively attempting to counter the botnet threat, in one way or another.

Iran Election Affects NTT Data Center

June 17, 2009 — Micro-blogging service Twitter was abuzz with tweets following a hotly disputed weekend presidential election in Iran, causing NTT America, which provides hosting for Twitter, to delay a critical network upgrade because of Twitter’s important role in bypassing the government’s attempts to silence traditional news reports.

Noise Filter: Iranian Election Dispute

June 16, 2009 — Since the arrival of the hotly disputed results of Iran’s presidential election arrived on Friday – in which incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed to have defeated reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi – demonstrations, both pro-government and dissenting, and both peaceful and violent, have taken place across the country’s capital of Tehran and elsewhere, with that dissent being echoed online.

OPEC Selects Speedera for Streaming

March 18, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Speedera Networks (speedera.com), a provider of application hosting and content delivery services, announced on Thursday that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries had selected Speedera to deliver live and on-demand streaming of its global conferences.

The Planet Pulls Iranian Student Site

January 25, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a report by the Register, Texas-based Web hosting provider The Planet Internet Services (theplanet.com) has pulled down the Web site of the Iranian Student’s News Agency.