A woman who recently traveled to Iran is New York’s first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source), New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday night. The Wall Street Journal reports: The woman, who wasn’t named, is in her late 30s and contracted the virus while traveling abroad in Iran. She has respiratory symptoms and is…
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Coronavirus Cases Soar in Italy and Iran; 48 Countries Now Report Infections
The fight to contain the coronavirus entered an alarming new phase on Thursday as caseloads soared in Europe and the Middle East, and health officials in the United States and Germany dealt with patients with no known connection to others with the infection. From a report: The German and American cases raised the possibility that the virus could have begun to…
Iran Has Been Targeting VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors
“A new report published today reveals that Iran’s government-backed hacking units have made a top priority last year to exploit VPN bugs as soon as they became public in order to infiltrate and plant backdoors in companies all over the world,” writes ZDNet: According to a report from Israeli cyber-security firm ClearSky, Iranian hackers have targeted companies “from the IT, Telecommunication,…
Google Redraws the Borders On Maps Depending On Who’s Looking
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Washington Post: For more than 70 years, India and Pakistan have waged sporadic and deadly skirmishes over control of the mountainous region of Kashmir. Tens of thousands have died in the conflict, including three just this month. Both sides claim the Himalayan outpost as their own, but web surfers in India could be…
Iranian ‘space suit’ is a children’s costume
A prominent Iranian official recently Tweeted a rather questionable photograph of Iran’s new ‘space suit’. In another blow to the country’s struggling… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/334598/iranian-space-suit-is-a-childrens-costume…
Iran satellite launch fails to reach orbit
Iran launched a communications satellite called Zafar 1 atop a Simorgh rocket at 10:45 a.m. EST Sunday (Feb. 9). But the spacecraft didn’t make it all the way to orbit. Source: https://www.livescience.com/iran-satellite-launch-failure-zafar-1.html
Iran satellite launch fails, in blow to space programme
Iran said it “successfully” launched a satellite Sunday but failed to put it into orbit, in a blow to its space programme that the US alleges is a cover for missile development. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-02-iran-satellite.html…
Iran says counting down to launch new satellite
Iran started counting down Sunday to the launch within hours of a scientific observation satellite that is part of a programme the United States has previously described as a “provocation”. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-02-iran-satellite.html…
Iran to launch observation satellite in ‘coming days’
Iran is preparing to launch a new scientific observation satellite in the “coming days”, the head of the country’s national space agency told AFP on Saturday. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-02-iran-satellite-days.html…
US Declares Public Health Emergency Over Coronavirus
The Trump administration on Friday declared a public healthy emergency over the coronavirus outbreak and said any foreign national who has traveled within China in the last 14 days will not be allowed to enter the country. The Wall Street Journal reports: The announcement [from U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar] came as stock markets tumbled amid concern about…