Iran tension could eclipse Pakistan Security summit

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai sought Pakistan's support on Thursday for advancing the reconciliation process in Afghanistan ahead of a trilateral summit on regional security involving Iran's president. But the meeting in Islamabad between Karzai, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could be overshadowed…

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Experts say Iran has “neutralized” Stuxnet virus

(Reuters) – Iranian engineers have succeeded in neutralizing and purging the computer virus known as Stuxnet from their country’s nuclear machinery, European and U.S. officials and private experts have told Reuters. The malicious code, whose precise origin and authorship remain unconfirmed, made its way as early as 2009 into equipment…

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Iran blocking SSL-secured Internet, claims Tor Project

The Iranian government has severed some citizens’ connections to secure websites and services, including Twitter and Google’s Gmail, according to reports by Iranians and network experts. Starting yesterday, people who said they live in Iran began describing problems reaching websites secured with SSL (secure socket layer), which is used to…

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