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February 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Iran must develop its cyber capabilities in a way that would deter the enemy from thinking of an attack on the country. So, the national cyber army is aimed at boosting the deterrent authority of the nation and not for waging war, said Ahmadi-Moqaddam during the closing ceremony of a conference on cyber security in the capital city, Tehran, on Sunday.
He reiterated that Iran should not merely think of a defensive approach since it will provide the enemy with chance to launch a strike against the country.
The police chief noted that military threats are carried out within hard, semi-hard and soft forms and stated that the enemies’ soft war includes psychological and social aspects.
However, the Islamic Republic has one of the most secure cyberspace in the world with 120 national systems and sub-systems, he pointed out.
Ahmadi-Moqaddam said Iran’s law enforcement is among top regional contenders in various cyber fields and connective infrastructure and possess the capabilities to compete with many other nations.
Iran launched a cyber defense headquarters some four months ago. The key task of cyber defense is to prevent computer worms or as some call it cyber weapons from breaking into or stealing data from Iran’s maximum security networks, including nuclear facilities, power plants, data centers and banks.
Iran announced last November that it had developed a software program that can control the Duqu spyware. The virus which was discovered on September 1, 2011, is a sophisticated Trojan that acts as a backdoor into a system and facilitates the theft of private intelligence.
Earlier in June 2010, Iranian officials identified another virus called Stuxnet, averting any damage to the country’s industrial sites and resources.
Stuxnet is a malware designed to infect computers using supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems made by the German company Siemens — which are favored by industries that manage water supplies, oilrigs, and power plants.
In July 2010, media reports claimed that Stuxnet had targeted industrial computers around the globe, with Iran being the main target of the attack. The reports said Iran’s newly launched Bushehr nuclear power plant was at the center of the cyber attack.
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