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The media is a buzz with the ongoing “cyber warfare” attacks against Iranian Government servers following the election and protests that have followed in Iran this week. It is all about Twitter according to many news articles.

For an excellent analysis head over to Dancho Danchev’s blog, as always he has done an excellent job at dissecting the attacks from a technical perspective.

By utilizing the people’s information warfare concept, Iranian opposition has managed to successfully organize a cyber attack against Tehran’s regime (complete analysis) by using Twitter, web forums, and localization (translation) of the recruitment messages in order to seek assistance from foreigners.

So far, their rather simplistic denial of service tools has managed to disrupt access to key government web sites, and the intensity of the attacks is prone to increase since the opposition appears to be in a “learning mode”.

Iranian Opposition DDoS-es pro-Ahmadinejad Sites

The State of Irans Ongoing Netwar – Slashdot Coverage with some interesting comments

Irans Netwar – Netwar focused coverage with some background on the history of “Netwar”