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Iran: Hackers attacked several Arab language sites

Thursday, May 29th, 2008 @ 15:56 UTC

by Hamid Tehrani

Countries:: Iran
Topics:: Cyber-Activism, History, Protest, International Relations

Ashyaneh, a group of Iranian hackers, says[Fa] that they attacked several Arab language sites that renamed Persian Gulf and call it Arabic Gulf.

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[...] recently entered a more dynamic phase of action: Hacking Arabic Sites that use Arabic Gulf term. Ashyaneh, a group of Iranian hackers, say that they attacked several Arab language sites that renamed [...]

# 2008-06-2 at 0:32 am

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