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Two new backdoors discovered by security researchers at ESET and named LunarWeb and LunarMail targeted an unnamed European Foreign Ministry and three diplomatic missions in the Middle East, The Hacker News reported. Click to see more special contentThese backdoors may have been in use since early 2020. The attack vector remains unknown, but spear phishing and misconfigured Zabbix software are suspected.The attack sequence begins with a malicious ASP.NET web page decoding two embedded blobs containing LunarLoader and LunarWeb. When a web page receives a particular cookie, it decrypts the payload for the next stage. LunarWeb has been observed to be…
New contracts with existing customers are expected to be fulfilled within the next five months Tel Aviv, Israel, May 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — super com (NASDAQ: SPCB), a global provider of secure solutions for the e-government, IoT and cybersecurity sectors, today announced that it has secured additional solutions. $1.8 million The company has signed up a long-standing customer in its e-government sector, with which it has continued a successful partnership for more than 10 years. The value of the contract is: $1.8 million.It is expected to start by the end of the year May 2024 It is expected to be…
Alex Brandon/Associated Press JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon pictured at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee investigating Wall Street companies in December 2023 in Washington, DC. London CNN — The chorus of voices warning of the dangers of record US government debt is growing louder. Over the past 24 hours, JPMorgan (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon and the world's largest hedge fund founder Ray Dalio weighed in on concerns about the US debt mountain. Dimon said in an interview with Sky News on Wednesday that he wants the U.S. government to focus on reducing the budget…
Presenting the coalition agreement, PVV leader Geert Wilders said he was very much looking forward to future cooperation with the NSC, BBB and VVD. He also said that he believed “the sun will shine again in the Netherlands”. advertisementThe Dutch government has moved sharply to the right after four right-wing parties agreed to form a coalition government.Geert Wilders, the anti-Muslim provocateur who topped opinion polls in last year's general election, reached an agreement with three other party leaders on Thursday, ending months of confusion when it was unclear who would become prime minister. It brought an end to negotiations.The new…
Nonthaburi, Thailand — On Thursday, dozens of pro-cannabis supporters gathered at the Ministry of Health on the outskirts of Thailand's capital, Bangkok, to protest the government's plan to relist the plant as a drug two years after it was decriminalized.The rally came after Prime Minister Suretta Thavisin said last week that she wanted the plant to be re-registered as a drug by the end of this year. Thailand became the first country in Asia to decriminalize the drug for medical purposes in 2022, but in reality the market appears to be effectively unregulated, leading to public backlash and concerns about…
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Dozens of Thai cannabis advocates on Thursday urged the government to reinstate marijuana as an illegal drug, a week after the government announced a dramatic shift in policy just two years after decriminalizing it. He asked them to abandon their plans to list it.prime minister of thailand Thretta Tabisin has pushed to allow the use of cannabis only for medicinal purposes and pledged to take a tough stance against illegal drugs, which he said are causing addiction and destroying young people's futures.Cannabis advocacy groups met with the health minister on Thursday to urge him to reconsider the…
MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Thursday, May 16th. good morning!this is the world and everything in it From WORLD Radio, which is supported by listeners. I'm Myrna Brown. MARY REICHARD, HOST: I'm Mary Reichard. Next up, WORLD commentator Cal Thomas talks about resolving the US debt crisis. Cal Thomas: Many people have made money by following the advice of Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. His recommendations on what stocks to buy, what stocks to sell, and where to invest earned him the title “The Oracle of Omaha.” I prefer the modern cultural version, the “Taylor Swift of capitalism.” Buffett recently…
Written by Bert H. MeyerAMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Incoming Dutch government led by nationalists Geert WildersThe PVV party will consider opting out of European Union immigration rules as it faces an asylum crisis.Wilders reached a deal on Wednesday to form the Netherlands' most right-wing government in decades, nearly six months after his landslide election victory.In a government plan published early on Thursday, the four-party coalition aims for the “toughest asylum system in history” with tighter border controls and tougher rules for asylum seekers arriving in the Netherlands.The Union states in the agreement that “opt-out provisions for European asylum and migration policy…
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, on Wednesday called for a significant increase in government research funding for artificial intelligence as they debate new legal safeguards. There are concerns that generative AI, which can create text, photos, and videos in response to free-form prompts, could make some jobs obsolete, overturn elections, and overwhelm humans with devastating effects. At the same time, it is exciting. Schumer, along with Republicans Mike Rounds and Todd Young and Democrat Martin Heinrich, will create a roadmap that leverages expert opinion to solve thorny problems arising from rapid advances in AI.…
THE HAGUE (AP) — Anti-Islamic standard-bearer Geert Wilders and three other party leaders agreed early Thursday on a coalition deal that pivots the Netherlands toward the far right, leaving it still unclear who will become prime minister. This brought an end to six months of turbulent negotiations. . The Hope, Courage and Pride agreement introduces strict measures against asylum seekers, abolishes refugee family reunification and seeks to reduce the number of international students studying in the country. “People who do not have a valid residence permit will be deported, even if possible, by force,” the 26-page document reads. Wilders hailed…