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• How an Iranian engineer uses mega ultra marathons to overcome life trauma

  ​Melbourne-based engineer and immigrant Tayebeh Alirezaee was sitting on a trail in Italy’s Aosta Valley one morning last year, catatonic.

• Hackers attack Iranian data centres

  Hackers have attacked networks in a number of countries including data centers in Iran where they left the image of a U.S. flag on screens along with a warning: "Don't mess with our elections", the Iranian IT ministry said on Saturday.

• ​Poach cyber experts from Trump’s banned countries: InfoTrust CEO

  InfoTrust CEO Dane Meah has called on the Australian government to take advantage of US president Donald Trump’s controversial immigration policy and help local organisations poach cyber security experts from banned countries.

• Report: Iran, Syria using Blue Coat gear to squelch dissent

  A report issued today by the Canadian group Citizen Lab says that network security hardware made by well-known manufacturer Blue Coat Systems is being used for political censorship by the repressive governments of Iran, Syria and Sudan.

• Iran Is a More Volatile Cyber Threat to U.S. than China or Russia

  Cyber threats from larger, more advanced nations that have diplomatic relations with the United States focus on cyber espionage and theft. But Iran is a more irrational actor and is building a cyber capability that is retaliatory in nature.

• Iran admits Stuxnet worm infected PCs at nuclear reactor

  Although some computers at Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor were infected by the Stuxnet worm, none of the facility's crucial control systems were affected, Iranian officials claimed Sunday.

• Iran hacks opposition Web sites, arrests cyber activists

  Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps hacked into 29 Web sites affiliated with U.S. espionage networks, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Sunday.

• Iran's leaders fight Internet; Internet wins (so far)

  Iran's government in recent days has tried to cut off Internet access for most of its election protestors by shutting down routers at the nation's perimeters, ripping satellite dishes off roofs, cutting cables and turning off telephone switching networks.

• Facebook blocked in Iran ahead of elections

  Social networking site Facebook has been blocked in Iran since Saturday, according to the country's opposition, as opposition voters increasingly turn to online tools like social networking to promote their candidates.