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Stocks fell on Monday, giving up early gains as hopes that lawmakers would be able to pass an economic stimulus continued to wither. The S&P 500 fell 1.6 percent, after starting the day with a small gain. European stocks also gave up small gains as gov…
Continue ReadingUNICEF has announced that it will stockpile more than half a billion syringes to prepare for distributing a COVID-19 vaccine, reports the New York Times. The organization’s advance stockpiling is part of a broader plan to collect one billion syringes b…
Continue ReadingIsraeli tech veterans Ohad Plotnik, Shlomo Touboul, and Amichai Shulman are launching a new cyber startup. The company, named AirEye, has developed a new solution to protect companies and organizations from airborne attacks. The company’s product has a…
Continue ReadingSome Japanese research institutions developing coronavirus vaccines have been hit by cyberattacks, apparently by China, in what are believed to be the first cases of their kind in the country, a U.S. information security firm said Monday. Amid an inten…
Continue ReadingThe Cyberspace Solarium Commission is looking to shore up security in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector by reducing dependency on suppliers from rival powers, especially China. “Put bluntly: in the context of our supply chains …
Continue Reading1. President Trump attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci as “a disaster” and said that people were “tired” of hearing about the coronavirus and wanted to be left alone. In a call with campaign staff, Mr. Trump also called Dr. Fauci, the nation’s leading infectiou…
Continue ReadingCovid under control, China’s economy bounces back. As most of the world still struggles with the pandemic, China is showing that a fast economic rebound is possible when the coronavirus is brought firmly under control. China’s lead could widen further …
Continue ReadingTOLEDO, Ohio Oct. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Libbey Inc. (OTC: LBYYQ) (“Libbey” or the “Company”), one of the world’s largest glass tableware manufacturers, today announced that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Bankruptcy Cour…
Continue Reading[co-author: Francesco Palma] When British Airways (“BA”) suffered a significant personal data breach in September 2018, just months after the coming into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), all eyes were on the UK’s Information…
Continue ReadingThe insurability of systemic cyber risk will be one of the defining issues of the next decade for the (re)insurance sector. Rapid technological changes and digitalization in particular have already transformed the characteristics of risks assumed by th…
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