Iran
The Mashsa Amini Story : A Fight for Truth and Freedom
Jina ‘Mahsa’ Amini was a young Kurdish girl who dreamt of becoming a doctor one day. The Iranian morality police beat her to death because they felt her jeans were too tight and her hijab too loose. Her murder has inspired thousands of Iranians to take to the streets in protest. The Iranian people are…
Iran’s Cyber-Domain Efforts Through Unconventional Warfare Forces Against Israel.
The modern world’s appetite for a kinetic conflict is seemingly at an all-time low. Across the world, major conflicts are continuously denounced by the world stage, forcing the international community to often support one side or the other in order to push for a quicker ending to a conflict; regardless of how the end is…
Book Review: Countdown to Zero Day
In Countdown to Zero Day, Kim Zetter methodically lays out the history and context of how the first offensive cyber operation came to be—and its ultimate exposure and compromise. This is a story not only about Stuxnet, but also an array of tools going by names like Flame, Wiper, Duqu, Shamoon, and Gauss that began…
Iran at Cyber War: Albania in the Crosshairs
The Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK) planned to host a Free Iran World Summit in Albania in late July 2022 to connect with other groups who opposed the Islamic Republic of Iran. Before they could meet, Iranian hackers launched a series of cyber attacks against Albanian government websites and internet based public services on July 15th to…