UK spy head says Russia is losing 'information war' in Ukraine

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UK spy chief: Putin losing 'information war' in Ukraine 

Russia has failed to gain ground in cyberspace against Ukraine almost six months after its onslaught on the country, the head of Britain's GCHQ intelligence service has said.

Jeremy Fleming, the intelligence head, in an op-ed in The Economist, wrote that both countries have been using their cyber capabilities in the fighting in Ukraine.

"So far, President Putin has comprehensively lost the information war in Ukraine and in the West. Although that's cause for celebration, we should not underestimate how Russian disinformation is playing out elsewhere in the world," Fleming wrote.

Fleming said Russia had deployed WhisperGate malware to destroy and deface Ukrainian government systems. He also said Russia has used the same playbook before on Syria and the Balkans and said online disinformation is a major part of Russia's strategy. 

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808 rural households of Isfahan were connected to the national information network

In an interview with IRNA on Saturday, Jafar Matalzadeh, referring to the plans of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to benefit the villages of the province from cell phone coverage and the Internet, stated: the process of connecting the villages of the province from the USO budget (development of mandatory rural public services). It continues and we are trying to make this happen in Isfahan province with the necessary plans.

He continued: With the construction and improvement of these sites, the villages of Marbar, Hossein Abad, Khalili, Shirazan, Kechusang, Lashkarkoh, Tejareh, Pendas, Parwaneh, Ghale Abdullah, Marchi, Jambzeh and Serian in Isfahan province were connected to the Internet and the National Information Network.

Director General of Communication and Information Technology of Isfahan province stated: The growth and development of these villages will be realized by connecting to the national information network and the Internet.

Pointing out that the penetration rate of mobile and fixed internet in the villages above 20 households in this province is 83%, he noted: this index is 63.5% for the first mobile operator, 33% for the Irancell operator, and 3.5% for the Rightel operator.

Tebalzadeh continued: The number of mobile first subscribers in the province is 5 million 567 thousand 792 lines and the number of Irancell subscribers is 2 million 941 thousand 997 subscribers, and now all the cities of Isfahan province have coverage of the third and fourth generations of mobile phones.

He added: Currently, the fixed broadband internet penetration rate in the province is 18.39%, the mobile broadband internet penetration rate is 116.47% and the broadband internet penetration rate is 134.86% in the province.

More than five million people, Isfahan province has 108 cities and 1,934 villages and settlements with a population of nearly 600,000 people.

Nearly 900 villages of Isfahan province have more than 20 households.

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