This video highlights the fact that Iranian commander of cyberwar was assassinated while on his motorcycle. It is important because Iran looks to Israel to blame.
As Iran develops their cyber warfare tactics, Israel is looking to develop a "digital Iron dome" to combat against it. They believe they need to be on a superpower level as far as cyber space is concerned or else be vulnerable to Iranian attacks.
This article provides an assessment of Iran's cyber warfare threat, ranking it as top 5 in the world. It also highlights the increased focus on higher education to provide engineers and computer scientists to help fuel the new cyber division in the military.
This article gives a full timeline of the development of cybersecurity and warfare since 1998. It provides a scope of how important cyber warfare has become as a global weapon.
The U.S. believes Iran may have learned it's cyberwarfare tactics from the U.S. However, rather than just replicating attacks the U.S. has imposed on Iranian cyberspace, Iran is improving their cyberweapons and are becoming more and more potent.
Evidence reveals that North Korea and Iran may be working together in cyber warfare after an attack on Sony Pictures. A scientific and technology cooperation was signed between the two countries after attacks on Iran's nuclear program.
A report releaser by the US called Operation Cleaver talks about the infiltrating power Iran's cyber warfare has. The biggest thing is that since cyber warfare doesn't require a large number of troops or bombs, Iran has negotiating power by developing a system that may be as big as China's.
Iran is developing a new cyberstrategy to protect against the intrusion of important government programs, and to oppose any anti-iranian cyber warfare and fight back. Under their new strategy they have already launched attacks on Saudi Arabia and companies in the U.S. such as Bank of America and Citigroup which gives the U.S. reason to concern on Iran's cyber warfare development.
Even though not relating to Iran, this article talks about the power the NSA has in penetrating computer data. It basically explains how no computer hardware or firmware is safe from NSA penetration and illustrates the power America has over other countries cyberspace.
Obama has signed an executive order that gives government agencies greater leeway in sharing data with private corporations. His idea is that if the government and corporations work together, vulnerabilities exposed by the internet will have better protection from cyber attacks.
Iran now has a Supreme Council of Cyberspace and is quickly developing it to become a powerful tool. Even though they aren't quite in the same league as the U.S. or China, they impose a threat big enough to worry about other than China.
This video talks about the recent cyber warfare the U.S. imposed on Iran's nuclear system. The main concern is if we should have let it be known, because if it is used against us we may not be able to fight back.