(AP) TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian official said the country's oil
industry is working well despite an attack from hackers and a computer
virus that targeted the sector's computer systems.
Deputy
minister for oil and civil defense Hamdollah Mohammadnejad said all
field units and exports of crude have continued working without
interruptions. His remarks were reported Tuesday by state IRNA news
agency.
Iran announced on Monday it was forced to
disconnect the country's main oil export terminal from the Internet as
a preventive measure after a cyberattack.
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The
semiofficial news agency Mehr said the Sunday cyberattack affected some
data, but the ministry had backed it up. It said oil operations were
otherwise unaffected.
But the Kharg Island oil terminal,
the ministry headquarters, and other facilities were all taken offline,
the agency quoted Mohammadnejad as saying. Some 80 percent of Iran's
daily 2.2 million barrels of crude export goes through the Kharg
facility, located off its southern coast.
The Islamic Republic says that it is involved in a long-running technological war with the United States and Israel.
Iran
periodically reports cyberattacks to its nuclear and industrial
sectors, almost always saying that little damage was caused. In 2010,
Iran reported that a nuclear plant had been targeted by the Stuxnet
virus. It denied reports that uranium centrifuge operations had been
disrupted, saying that damage was confined to nuclear plant personnel's
laptops.
Iran has reported other cyberattacks since,
including an infection in April 2011 dubbed "Stars" and a spy virus
about which little is known but its name, "Doku."
Earlier
this year, head of Iran's civil defense agency Gholam Reza Jalali said
the energy sector of the country has been a main target of cyberattacks
over the past two years.
Iran has recently announced a
series of cyberdefense measures spearheaded by the Revolutionary Guards
— a unit which already runs every key military program in Iran and many
industries.
In March, the Guard set up what it claims is a hack-proof communications network for its high-level commanders.
Ultimately,
Iran says it wants to set up a completely indigenous Internet that is
also aimed at checking a "cultural invasion" by enemies aimed at
promoting dissent and undermining the ruling system.
Iran
is at odds with Israel and the West over its controversial nuclear
program. The U.S. and its allies accuse Tehran of wanting to develop
weapons technology. Iran denies the claims, saying its program is for
peaceful purposes.
Oil industry safe after hacker attack, computer virus target computer systems In Iran
Written By ization shop on Monday, April 30, 2012 | Monday, April 30, 2012
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