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2021 WTO world trade report calls for increased economic resilience

The World Trade Organization (WTO) called on Tuesday for increased economic resilience by unwinding trade integration, as well as more regional and multilateral coopera

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Afghanistan: UNDP calls for peace and respect for human rights

UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. /UNDP United Nations Development Programme-UNDP issued a statement on Afghanistan on Friday saying that it joins the call of millions of Afghans and others ar

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Apple drops lawsuit against virtual iPhone company

Apple had previously attempted to acquire Corellium in 2018, but was rebuffed by the company, at which point it launched the lawsuit.

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Security flaws found in Samsung’s stock mobile apps

A mobile security startup has found seven security flaws in Samsung’s pre-installed mobile apps, which it says if abused could have allowed attackers broad access to a victim’s personal da

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Biden administration creates task force to supply chain shortages

The Biden administration is creating a new federal task force to address near-term supply chain issues plaguing a host of industries, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Tuesday, adding it will rele

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FBI launches operation to remotely remove Microsoft Exchange server backdoors

A Texas court has authorized an FBI operation to “copy and remove” backdoors from hundreds of Microsoft Exchange email servers in the United States, months after hackers used four previous

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Nigeria pledges to strengthen support for Lake Chad region projects

Boko Haram's violent activities in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger has created a humanitarian crisis, increasing the number of internally displaced persons and refugees within the Lake Chad reg

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Microsoft says China-backed hackers are exploiting Exchange zero-days

Microsoft is warning customers that a new China state-sponsored threat actor is exploiting four previously undisclosed security flaws in Exchange Server, an enterprise email product built by the softw

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Datadog to acquire application security management platform Sqreen

Cloud monitoring platform Datadog has announced that it plans to acquire Sqreen, a software-as-a-service security platform. Originally founded in France, Sqreen participated in TechCrunch’s Startup Ba

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Ivanti has acquired security firms MobileIron and Pulse Secure

IT security software company Ivanti has acquired two security companies: enterprise mobile security firm MobileIron, and corporate virtual network provider Pulse Secure.In a statement on Tuesday, Ivan

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Security testing firm NSS Labs ceases operations, citing coronavirus

Security testing company NSS Labs “ceased operations” last week, the company said in a notice on its website, citing impacts related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.The Austin, Texas-b

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IMF: Near-term financial risks contained, vulnerabilities rising

/Xinhua Near-term global financial stability risks have been contained for now, but vulnerabilities are rising, intensifying financial stability concerns in some countries, said the Internatio

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Cyberpion raises $8.25M in seed funding to help businesses secure assets beyond their firewall

Hijacking a company’s DNS or injecting code into third-party tools are the kind of attacks that many companies aren’t equipped to handle. Cyberpion, a new security startup founded by a num

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TikTok fixes Android bugs that could have led to account hijacks

TikTok has fixed four security bugs in its Android app that could have led to the hijacking of user accounts.The vulnerabilities, discovered by app security startup Oversecured, could have allowed a

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Use ‘productive paranoia’ to build cybersecurity culture at your startup

As any startup grows, getting new products out the door and securing that next round of funding are always top priorities.But security, all too often, falls by the wayside. After all, why would you in

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Apple will now allow developers stuck in App Store jail to push bug fixes to their apps

Apple’s App Store policies have gotten quite a bit more attention in the past few months, and while it seems likely that Apple’s team will fight tooth and nail to avoid dismantling any of

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COVID-19 crisis poses "a host of new challenges" to national authorities: UN

The United Nations said on Thursday that the COVID-19 crisis poses "a host of new challenges" to national authorities and collective response efforts are needed. The nexus between terrorism and org