{"id":10434,"date":"2012-06-04T08:38:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10434"},"modified":"2012-06-04T08:38:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T15:38:09","slug":"30-nations-call-on-iran-to-help-defend-against-cyberwar-launched-by-us-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10434","title":{"rendered":"30 Nations call on Iran to help defend against Cyberwar launched by US-Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IT official: 30 countries ask Iran for help to combat \u2018Flame\u2019<\/strong><br \/>\n2 June, 2012 &#8211; Shia Post<\/p>\n<p>Iran says 30 countries have asked it for help in fighting Flame, a computer programme designed to steal data.  Australia, the Netherlands, India and Malaysia are among the countries that have contacted Iran\u2019s Maher Centre to ask for the anti-virus programme that detects and destroys Flame.<\/p>\n<p>The Maher Centre (Maher means \u2018expert\u2019 in Persian) is part of the Information Technology Company (ITC).<\/p>\n<p>The ITC discovered Flame over a month ago and has been working on an anti-virus programme since then said Esmail Radkani the organisation\u2019s deputy director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDetecting and writing a programme to wipe out Flame was especially complex,\u201d said Mr. Radkani.<\/p>\n<p>Flame is the third programme to have targeted Iran for the purpose of gathering information, or attacking a specific system.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Iran\u2019s industrial and nuclear computer systems were attacked by the Stuxnet worm. The worm was a malware designed to infect computers using Siemens Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), a control system favoured by industries that manage water supplies, oil rigs and power plants.<\/p>\n<p>Stuxnet was followed by Duqu, a virus designed to gather data for future cyber-attacks. Iran announced the discovery of Duqu in November 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Flame seems to have been created with the express purpose of gathering information. Experts believe it could have been running for as long as five years before it was discovered.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.shiapost.com\/?p=3335\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D10434&amp;text=30+Nations+call+on+Iran+to+help+defend+against+Cyberwar+launched+by+US-Israel&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT official: 30 countries ask Iran for help to combat \u2018Flame\u2019 2 June, 2012 &#8211; Shia Post Iran says 30 countries have asked it for help in fighting Flame, a computer programme designed to steal data. Australia, the Netherlands, India and Malaysia are among the countries that have contacted Iran\u2019s Maher Centre to ask for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10434#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3130],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10436,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434\/revisions\/10436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}