Taliban fighters have killed six Afghan police officers at a checkpoint in the province of Kapisa to the northeast of Kabul, Afghan officials say. According to provincial councilors Mohammad Hussain Sanjani and Mohammd Mahfooz Safi, three police officers were also wounded during the Taliban’s overnight attack in the remote Nejrab district. They said the Taliban […]
Microsoft said today it patched two new major security flaws in the Windows Desktop Services package. These two vulnerabilities are similar to the vulnerability known as BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708). Microsoft patched BlueKeep in May and warned that attackers could abuse it to create “wormable” attacks that spread from one computer to another without user interaction. Today, […]
A decade-old remote code execution vulnerability in the firmware of enterprise desk phones has been discovered by researchers. On Thursday at Black Hat USA in Las Vegas, Nevada, McAfee researchers revealed the existence of the security flaw in a desk phone developed by Avaya, a VOIP solution provider and vendor for business desk phones. According […]
Unlike the many species which stalk the shallow, coastal waters that fisheries exploit all year round, pelagic sharks roam the vast open oceans. These are the long-distance travellers of the submarine world and include the world’s largest fish, the whale shark, and also one of the fastest fish in the sea, the shortfin mako shark, […]
Ascension Island is in the middle of the AtlanticSidney Sambu/Getty By Adam Vaughan The world’s ability to track rapidly growing levels of greenhouse gases has suffered a major blow with the axing of a vital climate monitoring scheme run from a UK-governed island. For 40 years US and UK teams have been monitoring concentrations of […]
Four out of five (80%) of the global workforce is comprised of deskless or remote employees. These 2.7 billion individuals face added limitations compared with onsite staff, both in terms of communication and access to corporate systems. As a result, these workers suffers from even lower levels of employee engagement than those in the office. […]
A Hiber satellite weighs around 10 kilogramsHiber By Donna Lu Perched on a desk in front of me is a tiny satellite. Four black panels stick out like the spokes of a windmill, connected to central body the size of a desktop computer. It weighs less than 10 kilograms, and looks like a space buff’s […]
Microplastics have been discovered in a remote area of the French Pyrenees mountains. The particles travelled through the atmosphere and were blown into the once pristine region by the wind, according to a new study published in Nature Geoscience. This is just the latest example of the “hidden risks” posed by plastics that humans cannot […]
While the temperature of the Earth is rising, and the “Big Thaw” is a looming threat commonly pronounced by politicians, activists and researchers, the melting glaciers and thawing permafrost are the reality for numerous people living in the northernmost of Europe and they are already fear that their form of life is under threat by […]