Russian hackers piggy-backed on an Iranian cyber-espionage operation to attack government and industry organizations in dozens of countries while masquerading as attackers from the Islamic Republic, British and U.S. officials said on Monday.
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's government, looking to quell opposition, is shutting down Google's Gmail e-mail service within the country, reports said today.
An apparently ad-hoc cyber protest against the results of recent Iranian elections has knocked key Web sites off-line.
This past weekend, something strange happened in the U.S. media landscape: Twitter helped shape coverage of the Iranian elections protests.