A survey of 15 countries has shown that anxieties about side effects and uncertainties around safety are the main reasons for coronavirus vaccine hesitancy. Imperial College London’s Melanie Leis, who co-led the project, told BBC World News that in the vast majority of countries surveyed more than 50% of the population had trust in the…
Attempts to stop Hongkongers marking the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown is having the opposite effect of what was intended, the managing director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council, Samuel Chu, has said. A public vigil to mark the anniversary has been banned by Hong Kong for the second year running citing coronavirus…
Nasa has said it will send two missions to Venus at the end of the decade in order to examine the planet’s atmosphere and geological features. Dhara Patel, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich told BBC World News on Thursday that the missions could shed light on why Venus, which had very similar…
Endpoint Security , Governance & Risk Management , Internet of Things Security Low-Bandwidth Network Can Share Internet Connections Among Amazon Devices Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 3, 2021 Devices such as Amazon’s Ring cameras will be part of the company’s Sidewalk low-bandwidth network. Internet of things security professionals are expressing concern over Amazon’s…
BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak looks at the best tech news stories of the week including: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and the European Union announce a $1bn (820m euro, £710m) partnership to accelerate clean technology A drone films itself crashing into Iceland’s erupting Fagradalsfjall volcano A robot which can mimic the expressions of people around it…
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have called for the US and Danish governments to address allegations that Washington spied on European Union allies with Copenhagen’s help. “This is not acceptable between allies, and even less between allies and European partners,” said Macron after a French-German summit meeting held via video conference…
The U.S. Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminals, a senior department official told Reuters. From the report: Internal guidance sent on Thursday to U.S. attorney’s offices across the country said information…
A top Russian-language underground forum has been running a “contest” for the past month, calling on its community to submit “unorthodox” ways to conduct cryptocurrency attacks.The forum’s administrator, in an announcement made on April 20, 2021, invited members to submit papers that assess the possibility of targeting cryptocurrency-related technology, including the theft of private keys…
US cyber security firm FireEye said it would sell its products business, including the FireEye name, to a consortium led by private-equity firm Symphony Technology Group for US$1.2 billion (A$1.55 billion) in cash. The deal will separate FireEye’s network, email and cloud security products from its cyber forensics unit, Mandiant Solutions. The deal is expected…
Nonprofit healthcare provider, Scripps Health in San Diego, has disclosed a data breach exposing patient information after suffering a ransomware attack last month. The healthcare provider has five hospitals and 19 outpost facilities with over 3,000 affiliate physicians. Every year, Scripps Health treats more than 700,000 patients. On April 29th, Scripps Health suffered a cyberattack…
