Friday, December 18, 2009

Cyber Warfare

They may look like a gang of escapees from he 12th Century, but when it comes to combatting their enemies Iran's theocrats are on the cutting edge:

A group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army has hacked Twitter and an Iranian opposition website, replacing it with an anti-American message.

Traffic to the social networking website was redirected for nearly two hours on Thursday night.

The opposition website mowjcamp.org remained disrupted on Friday.

The opposition in Iran have used the websites to publicise protests and accuse the government of rigging elections in June.

"This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army," the message read...

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