Security News > 2011 > January > Iranian Police Sets Up Cyber Force
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8911031262 Fars News Agency 24 Jan 2011 TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Cyber Police started its work today to prevent espionage and sabotage activities through the internet, a police official announced on Sunday. "The Cyber Police can prevent espionage and sabotage in Information Technology (IT) tools," Head of the Information Production and Exchange Department of the Law Enforcement Police General Seyed Kamal Hadianfar said. Hadianfar reiterated that IT tools play an undeniable role in political, security, economic, trade, ethical and religious rivalries at the national and international levels. He also underlined that given the people's growing interest in using the internet, the threats and opportunities presented by the IT now need to be attended more than before in the country, adding that the governments should have plans for confronting these threats and using these opportunities. Earlier in 2009, Iran's Police Chief Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam had announced that 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. Iran announced in March 2010 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 at the time 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 software 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. ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/