News Burst 5 February 2020 ~ February 5, 2020

News Burst 5 February 2020

Twitter today issued a warning revealing that attackers abused a legitimate functionality on its platform to unauthorizedly determine phone numbers associated with millions of its users’ accounts. The vulnerability resided in one of the APIs that has been designed to make it easier for users to find people they may already know on Twitter by matching phone numbers saved in their contacts with twitter accounts. the feature worked precisely as intended, except someone was not supposed to upload millions of randomly generated phone numbers and abuse Twitter to reveal profiles associated.
More than half of Dutch voters want to leave the European Union and seek an alternative trade agreement with the rest of the continent in the style of Brexit, a bombshell poll reveals today.
According to the information that the Russian centre for Syria reconciliation received at around 16:00 Moscow time [13:00 GMT] from several independent sources, representatives of the White Helmets, together with terrorists, have finished the shooting of a staged video about the [Syrian] governmental forces’ alleged use of ‘toxic agents’ against civilians in the Zerbah settlement of the Idlib de-escalation zone”, the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement.
The video shows the alleged consequences of a Syrian Air Force attack involving some “unidentified chemical weapon”, the ministry added. “Alleged ‘human victims’ with symptoms of ‘intoxication’ can be seen on the video in thick yellow smoke. The White Helmets are now ready to spread the fake video on social media for further dissemination through Western and Arab media”, the Russian Defence Ministry noted.
Singapore dream of no more new cases ended, 4 locally transmitted cases among new coronavirus patients. A man has died in Hong Kong, the first.
A South Korean woman has tested positive for coronavirus after visiting Thailand, the first foreign tourist reported to have been infected after a visit to the Southeast Asian nation.

China has begun clinical trials to test a drug for the deadly new coronavirus, which has no cure and is being treated with a combination of antivirals and other measures, as scientists race to find a vaccine. The experimental antiviral drug, Remdesivir, developed by US-based Gilead Sciences, is aimed at infectious diseases such Ebola and Sars. It was given to the first US patient last week – a 35-year-old man whose condition appeared to improve within a day.
[Rumor] Birdie chirped DECLAS should be imminent… Before or after Wednesday is unknown but that it’s coming and will be devastating.
Several streets in London’s central Soho neighborhood have been shut down twice since Monday after an unexploded halftone World War II bomb and its parts were discovered during work on a building site.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has released a collection of documents [in Russian – LINK] on the 1945 Yalta Conference of the Big Three, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The first such collection presents documents from the Yalta (Crimean) Conference of February 4-11, 1945, a milestone event during World War II’s final stage that outlined key areas of cooperation between the allies on major military strategic and political issues of the post-war world order.
Pakistan has declared a national emergency over a locust invasion after insects destroyed crops on farmlands. Millions of insects wreaked havoc in Punjab province, the country’s main agricultural region, and in cities across the Pakistani-Indian border. Authorities called the invasion the worst locust attack in decades.

Vietnam has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu in a village in the northern part of the country, the Vietnamese farm ministry reports. The virus was detected in a flock of 3,000 birds in the village of Duc Yen and directly killed 2,200 birds, the report said.
Nine Belgians who arrived from Wuhan on Sunday evening were extensively tested yesterday in the military hospital in Neder-Over-Heembeek. One of them is infected with the new coronavirus.
One of the news networks President Trump calls “fake news” is reportedly barred from the annual pre-State of the Union lunch. Anchors from CNN will not be allowed into Tuesday’s event.
The State of the Union Address (sometimes abbreviated to SOTU) is an annual message delivered by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress. The message typically includes a budget message and an economic report of the nation, and also allows the President to propose a legislative agenda and national priorities. The address fulfills the requirement in Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution for the President to periodically “give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”

Weekely Asteroid

2020 BW5 2020-Feb-09 5.2 Lunar Distance 9 km/s 18 m.
Lunar Distance = 384,401 km

Sun Activity

A minor stream of solar wind is heading for Earth. Estimated time of arrival: Feb. 5-6. The gaseous material is flowing from a southern hole in the sun’s atmosphere. Arctic sky watchers should expect an uptick in auroral activity when the stream arrives. spaceweather.com

Strongest EQ in Europe M3.0 Italy
Strongest EQ in US M3.3 California
Strongest EQ on the Planet M5.2 New Zealand
Deepest EQ M4.6 545 km South of FijiNews Burst 5 February 2020