Iran unblocks Google email again after officials complain

(Reuters) - Iranian authorities have reopened access to Google Inc's email service a week after blocking it, a government official and Iranians said on Monday.
Iran maintains one of the world's largest Internet filters, blocking access to tens of thousands of websites on the grounds that they are criminal or immoral, but the block on Gmail had even prompted complaints in parliament.
"The council on Internet filtering communicated its order to the Telecommunications Ministry regarding the lifting of the ban on the Gmail service," Mohammad Reza Aghamiri, a member of the committee, told the Mehr news agency.


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China cyberspies suspected in new caper: what has experts worried

A China-based cyberespionage gang has been linked to the infiltration of networks belonging to Telvent Canada, a major industrial control system company, in a case that some experts warn could facilitate creation of a dangerous cyberweapon.
The cyberspies, thought to be from a gang that security researchers call the "Comment Group" or sometimes the "Shanghai group," slipped past a corporate firewall, installing malicious software on the network – then snatched project files related to one of Telvent's major software products, according to KrebsOnSecurity, a cybersecurity blog that first reported the breach Wednesday.
As cyberespionage hacks that become public go – Google created a furor when it said it had been hacked by Chinese cyber spies in early 2010 and at least some of its vital source code had been stolen – it's been a relatively low-key news event so far.

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Hackers post pilfered Yahoo! passwords

Yahoo! on Thursday was digging into how hackers looted nearly a half million passwords and email addresses from one of its servers.
A hacker group calling itself D33DS posted online a massive trove of data it said was unencrypted in a file pilfered from the Sunnyvale, California-based Internet pioneer "as a wake-up call not as a threat."
Yahoo! confirmed that a file from its Contributor Network (formerly Associated Content) containing approximately 450,000 Yahoo! and other company users names and passwords was compromised on Wednesday.
Security researchers who sifted through the posted data determined that it included information about accounts at other online services including Google's web-based Gmail, AOL, and Microsoft's Live.com.

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