Australia is one of the countries already seeing an increase in the number of extremely hot days because of climate change, with places like Sydney experiencing temperatures around 50C. The intense heat has led to unusually strong bushfires and some indigenous species dying en masse. As the BBC’s Life at 50 degrees season continues, this…
More than 300 mosquito-catching machines have been deployed in the French town of Hyères after the insects started to affect tourism. The Qista machines mimic human breathing to lure in the mosquitoes and trap them in a net. Qista says the devices reduce the prevalence of mosquitoes by about 80%. BBC Click’s Chris Fox went…
They were supposed to be the face of Afghanistan’s future – female cabin crew working for the national carrier, Ariana Airlines. Now, they have been told not to come back to work for the time being by their new bosses, the Taliban. Eleven of the women have come together to hide in an abandoned house,…
Iowa-based farm services provider NEW Cooperative said its systems were offline to contain a cybersecurity incident.The cooperative operates grain storage elevators in the top U.S. corn producing state, buys and sells grain and owns technology platforms for farmers. “We have taken our systems offline to contain the threat, and we…
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said he believes women in Afghanistan are “very strong” and could, in time, assert their rights under the Taliban. Speaking to the BBC’s John Simpson, Mr Khan also voiced his concerns that there could be a humanitarian crisis and civil war and that an “unstable and chaotic Afghanistan” would…
2020 was a year of relentless disruptions. The protective layer of secured enterprise networks and controlled IT environments of the physical premises did not exist. Over the past year, CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) have had to grapple with the challenges of bolstering the security posture, minimizing risks, and ensuring business continuity in the new…
Credit: Dreamstime Cyber-espionage groups are exploiting a critical vulnerability patched earlier this month in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus, a self-service password management and single sign-on (SSO) solution for Active Directory environments. The FBI, CISA and the United States Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER) urge organisations who use the product to deploy the available patch as soon…
Maybe there is no such thing as a safe messaging app. Privacy concerns led WhatsApp users to migrate away from the app and find a new home on Signal, Telegram, and other apps. However, a cyber intelligence group has released details that show hackers are migrating to Telegram as well from the dark web. Telegram…
Security company Clario Tech, in conjunction with cyber security researcher Bob Diachenko, discovered a vulnerability within EventBuilder, a virtual events integration tool for Microsoft. Clario notified EventBuilder of the danger earlier this year, and the popular webinar tool, which integrates with Microsoft Teams, has now closed the exposure. Exposing personal details More than one million…
A recent Forbes article has alleged the Indian government for abusing private technology against China and Pakistan. Earlier this year, researchers at Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky witnessed a cyberespionage campaign targeting Microsoft Windows PCs at government and telecom entities in China and Pakistan, the Forbes article read. The software used by the digital spies was…
