BLOGGER WAS BLOCKED IN IRAN

By:Abbas Saghali

Blogger as one of the most popular web sivices in the world was blocked in Iran.Government of Iran  from yesterday morning blocked this web service and iranian bloggers cannot use it to poblish their blogs legally.It should be suggested that Iran has most number of bloggers in the globe of cyber space..Some of internet services such as you tube and face book has had undeniable role to develop Iranian green movement after recent presidential election.Blogfa is another web service that is used by Iranian bloggers.Some internet users believe security of blogfa is not sufficient to keep bloggers profile information secured.

PREVENT OF BANK ACCOUNT HACKINGS

These days the hackers are looking for the ways to earn some money as well as destroying and making problem for the websites. One of these way is to penetrate the users bank account and transfer and steal money from their accounts. As we see nowadays most of us are doing our banking activities via internet so in case we won’t be precautious we may lose all our assets. There are some hints which might help us to prevent our bank accounts and credit card from being hacked. Some of them are as follows:

· Try to use OS like Linux instead of windows as this OS is the most vulnerable one.

· Try to use the most secure web browsers and email services.

· It would be necessary to install a firewall and antivirus program on your system.

· Using Wi-Fi connections just in the secure place like your office and your home.

· Encrypting all your valuable information on your hard drives including your bank account passwords.

· Social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook can be another source of being hacked, so try to be very cautious while surfing these websites.

· Last but not least, try to use strong password by combining alphabets and numeric in your password.

As a conclusion the bank all over the world are trying to make their websites as much secure as they can, but still the carefulness of the costumers is required to decrease such the events.

CENSORSHIP IN IRAN

By:Abbas Saghali

There is no doubt that Iran has one of the most extensive technical filtering and internet censorship system in the globe.In this country with a civilized history and more than 70 million population which has a great deal of high graduated individuals in its recent generations,a committee of government officials and a few members of intelligent services and judiciary make decision on blocking and filtering of websites.Telecommunications ministry is operator of filtering in Iran.After recent presidential election,Internet censorship were intensified in Iran.Most of writers,journalists,intellects, university students and lecturers,internet users and opposite politicians have increasingly protested to these kind of "technology-blocking" in Iran,although government tries to ignore these protests.Iranian internet users often get around the filtering by anti-filter software,but it is not always very easy to get access to blocked websites by this means.

DEFAMATION,LIBEL,SLANDER

By:Abbas Saghali

Relatively we can say defamation is the communication of statement that by making a claim gives a negative image about an individual,business,product,group,government or nation.In fact it is a false statement which makes a lot of troubles for others.Defamation sometimes is called slander or libel.

IRAN AND E-COMMERCE SOLUTION

By:Abbas Saghali

Iran can improve in different aspects of e-commerce according

political-legal,economical,social,and         technological(PEST)       solutions.

 Firstly,by regarding political-legal solution,improvement in international policy of Iran is quite considerable to attract international customers and facilitate exchange transactions with individuals,firms and organizations in different countries specially USA and most of other developed countries.Secondly,government of Iran should support industries which are interested in doing their business by e-commerce.Increasing budget for R&D in this regard can be effective.Thirdly,advertising for facilitation of business transactions by e-commerce is too important.Most of people in Iran deosn't have enough information about advantages of e-commerce.Bazar in Iran which is the heart of economy doesn't use multi-dimensional capacity of e-commerce in whole of its facets.Increasing social awareness can be effective in this way.Finally, we should mention to technological facilities for e-commerce in Iran.BY increasing technological devices of e-banking and improvement of IT people of Iran can use mostly from e-commerce advantages.Technological facilities can also cause people trust more to implement their business by e-commerce.

IRAN AND E-COMMERCE

By:Abbas Saghali

Speed of internet access in Iran has often low rate,and it makes some barriers for organizations and individuals in terms of sellers and buyers to enter in e-commerce world.In addition,the most important problem in this regard is Iran's political problems with some developed countries such as USA.At this point,each country in the globe which has similar condition like Iran,for instance north Korea and Cuba, cannot improve not only in e-commerce but also in any field of e-business.

At the end,it should be suggested that e-commerce problems in Iran and some of countries with emerging economy are mostly common,although intense of these problems is not the same.

PROBLEMS OF E-COMMERCE IN IRAN

By:Abbas Saghali

E-commerce as a set of online activities and commercial transactions between buyers and sellers,and a subset of e-business ,has not sufficiently grown in Iran.There are some problems which can be viewed in this regard.Firstly,I should mention to e-payment difficulties.There is no balance between e-banking facilities for online payment and customer expectations in Iran.Shops don't have reliable and updated data for their customers e-purchase.so,buyers and consumers mostly are not interested in spending their time in internet to purchase their needs and fulfill their wants.Secondly,people in Iran cannot trust to e-payment system.There is A lack of enough advertisement for the issue.On the other hand,bank system is not matched with international online business to secure e-payment processes.

PHISHING AND PHARMING

Phishing and in a lesser extent pharming are two popular forms of online fraud.Victims are duped when they are aim to go to a trusted web site such as bank,but in fact they are deceived by a bogus web site which steal their identity and drain their financial resources.

INTERNET AND CYBERCRIME IN IRAN

Between 2000 and 2005,the number of people which had regular access to internet in the world increased by 182%.At the same time,internet penetration in middle east grew by 454%,and Iran in that region had the highest growth rate at a staggering 2900%.

Internet usage and cybercrime to a parallel rise increased in the globe as well as in Iran.Statistics indicate 50% viruses and 30% fraud for whole of the world in 2004,although in the case of Iran by lack of reliable documents we cannot talk about the issue by exact statistics.But,according too many evidences and various events there is no doubt that cybercrime has increased sharply in Iran specially in recent years.

It should be suggested that government of Iran has acknowledged to tackle this issue.