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Security News This Week: A Notorious Spyware Vendor Wants to Track Coronavirus Spread

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Everybody's worried about Zoom this week. As the video conferencing software rocketed to 200 million users amid widespread shelter-in-place orders, security and privacy pros have catalogued a litany of issues. It's probably perfectly fine for most people! But especially if you need true end-to-end encrypted meetings, maybe give Zoom a minute to get its act together. Zoom's not the only one benefiting from novel coronavirus quarantines. Online credit card skimmers have stepped up their activity now that everyone's shopping from home, according to data from security company RiskIQ. The most…

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‘I won’t survive’: Iranian scientist in US detention says Ice will let Covid-19 kill many

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Although he was exonerated, Dr Sirous Asgari remains locked up and tells the Guardian inhumane jail is denying detainees masks and hand sanitizer An Iranian scientist who was exonerated in a US sanctions trial but remains jailed by immigration authorities said the conditions in detention were filthy and overcrowded and officials were doing little to prevent a deadly coronavirus outbreak. Dr Sirous Asgari, a materials science and engineering professor, was conducting testing at Ice facilities and providing personal protective equipment in accordance with US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines,…

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Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden Face Off in Democratic Battle for Iran Dove Cred

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On the surface, the Democrats sounded more or less like one another when they denouncedDonald Trumps hit on Qassem Soleimani. But there were some subtle differences that they didnt get into on cable news. Theyre revealing, and they reflect the differences in the party on questions of war and peace and fighting terrorism, with Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders representing the two tent polesat a moment when Sanders has started to attack Biden for the first time more generally. The poles arent hawk and dove. Thats too simplistic. Hardly anyone…

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Iraq Tells Trump GTFO After Soleimani Strike

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On Sunday, just days after the voted to oust American troops from the country and Tehran advance the cause of peace. President Donald Trumps truculent response? Threaten Iraq with sanctions if it expels U.S. troops: If they do ask us to leave, if we dont do it in a very friendly basis, we will charge them sanctions like theyve never seen before ever. Itll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame. Tehrans announcement about its nuclear program Sunday indicated that the efforts Iran and the United States made in recent months…

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U.S. Intel: Iran Shot Down Plane, Then Realized Mistake

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The Ukrainian airliner that crashed on Wednesday morning in Iran, killing all 176 people aboard, was shot out of the sky by one of Irans anti-aircraft missile systems, probably as the result of a horrifying mistake, according to U.S., Canadian, and European officials familiar with the intelligence. Intelligence indicates the Iranians came to see they had erred soon after the plane was downed, per two U.S. government sources. Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, a Boeing 737-800 traveling from Tehran to Kyiv, went down in flames hours after Iran fired a…

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Russia to Iran: Dont Admit GuiltBlame the U.S. Instead

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After mounting evidence, Iran finally acknowledged that it accidentally shot down the Ukrainian passenger jet earlier this week, killing all 176 people aboard. Following the admission, Iranian protesters have told Al Jazeera, There is a lot of anger. Iranians are demanding justice and accountability. Many people including families of the victims are in shock. They do not understand why their government would have lied to them for this long. There is also a lot of anger in Russia, but for an entirely different reason. Yuri Shvytkin, deputy head of the…

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In the War on Terror, Iran Is Kicking Our A**

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With the largely subsided. Irans initial military response to the Jan. 3 targeted killing of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a leading military strategist and commander of Irans elite Quds Force, was as limited and restrained as the targeted killing was bold and unexpected. On Jan. 8, Iranian forces fired 16 ballistic missiles at two American-run military bases in Iraq, resulting in no deaths and limited damage. Iran telegraphed the missile launch, suggesting to experts on that countrys foreign and defense policies that Tehran wished to de-escalate tensions with the United…

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Is U.S. Embassy Attack in Baghdad Part of an Iran Trap?

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JERUSALEMIf Irans grand plan in the Middle East is to push the Americans out and squeeze Israel into a corner, the first time that Israel has attacked Iranian-backed groups there. Two days after Kochavis speech, 32 targeting Kataib Hezbollah. The two incidents now bring into view both Israeli and American red lines trying to contain Irans role in the region. strong and sovereign Iraq, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And the U.S. military is in Iraq at the more than 1,000 airstrikes on as many as 250 Iranian…

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Fox News reporter posts years-old photo of Iranian graffiti thanking Trump

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A Fox News producer tweeted out a photo of Arabic graffiti that supposedly shows Iranian support for President Donald Trump. After a military strike killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani on Thursday, Iranian protesters took to the streets to mourn Soleimani. However, Yonat Friling, from Fox News, portrayed support for Trumps decision in Iran with a tweet on Friday. From Tehran this morning graffiti says Thank you Trump. (Source protected), @Foxyonat tweeted. Her tweet has since been deleted. @Foxyonat The image; however, has a few suspicious qualities. First, this…

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Team Trump Goes Back To Sanctions Playbook

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The Trump administration announced fresh sanctions on Iran Friday following Tehrans missile strikes on an Iraqi military base housing American troops. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a press conference Friday that the U.S. had sanctioned eight Iranian officials as well as companies in the countrys steel, metals, and mining sectors. Several of those companies have been blacklisted, meaning American individuals and entities are barred from doing any business with them. The Iranian officials sanctioned include the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian…

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‘Heartbreaking’: Canadians mourn Iran plane crash victims

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Grief and some scuffles between supporters and opponents of regime as hundreds gather by candlelight at Toronto vigils On 6 January, Alvand Sadeghi was due to fly from Tehran back to Toronto. But a rapidly deteriorating political situation in the region left the web designer with a cancelled flight. Eager to return, the 29-year-old booked a new flight two days later, on Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752. He was travelling with his wife, sister and eight-year-old niece. Shortly after takeoff, however, the statement by Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/10/heartbreaking-canadians-mourn-iran-plane-crash-victims

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