Archive for June, 2009

Iranian Government’s Internet Crackdown (BBC Interview)

June 23, 2009 by Arbor Networks

BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones interviews Arbor Networks Chief Scientist Craig Labovitz on the Iranian government’s Internet crackdown (4:42).  Rory Cellan-Jones also wrote an article that appears on the BBC News Web site that can be read here.

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Iran DDoS Activity: Chatter, Tools and Traffic Rates

June 19, 2009 by Jose Nazario

I’m here in Talinn at the CCD COE Cyber Warfar Conference listening to Martin Libicki’s perspectives on information warfare in modern warfare theories. This is an interesting week to be here with last week’s Charter97 attacks in Belarus (with someone from Charter97 speaking yesterday) and the unrest in Iran leading to a wealth of activity. [...]

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A Deeper Look at The Iranian Firewall

June 18, 2009 by Craig Labovitz

In the previous blog post about the Iranian firewall, we explored macro level Iranian traffic engineering changes (showing that Iran cut all communication after the election and then slowly added back Internet connectivity over the course of several days). Like many other news reports and bloggers, we also speculated on Iran’s intent — how was [...]

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