Iran’s Cyber Police or FATA is the cyber arm of Iran’s Police which tries to protect Iranian people against cyber criminals and cyber threats. Today, I tried to check their website and I was shocked. Why? Because as you can see, their SSL certification has not been valid since 7th…

Source: Flickr, Creative Commons In the last days of 2014, Facenama- an Iranian version of Facebook- was hacked by anonymous hacker(s) and details of more than 116,000 users were published.

Since 2009, I have worked in the digital security sector and have been involved in training many people from a wide variety of background and countries. In addition to this, I have had practical experience in helping a number of victims secure their accounts after Phishing attacks. In my experience…

In past few weeks, different reports came out regarding hacking of Gmail accounts of Iranians inside the country. Sometimes even the two factor authentication method of Gmail were discussed. But maybe the most important reasons for these speculations in’t enough information about these attacks in the first place. What is the story behind the recent attacks? The recent…

Back on 2nd May, I wrote an article about Iran’s startup bubble and made the point that the startup ecosystem in Iran is still in its infancy and needs more time to mature. In mid-July, The Economist published a chart and naming the top 3 startups in Iran. The first…

Wikipedia The word ‘startup’ has become ubiquitous in Iran and I have seen lots of events, workshops, etc. in which the word startup figures, the most famous being Startup Weekend. One of the questions that I have had from the first day of the startup phenomenon in Iran was “Is…

President.ir When Hassan Rouhani became President of Iran, most Iranian users and media talked about the easing of Internet censorship under Rouhani’s government. Previously, I have written a short post and explained when we can expect users to have unrestricted access to social network websites.

Iranian users cannot expect in the short term to open Facebook or Twitter without circumvention tools. — Hassan Rouhani is the first Iranian president that has a Twitter account and the Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zairf, is the first politician in Iran that has a verified account on Twitter. In addition, Zarif is active on Facebook and posts his daily reports regularly. Rouhani and his cabinet members…

Google Reader was a circumvention tool. — Google Reader has been shut down today and to be honest, it’s not a big issue for most internet users around the world except some of them such as Iranian users. The main reason is due to the current state of the Internet in Iran which a friend of mine…