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When cyber security professionals converged in Las Vegas last week to expose vulnerabilities and swap hacking techniques at Black Hat and Defcon, a consistent theme emerged: the internet is broken, and if we don’t do something soon, we risk permanent damage to our economy. In his Black Hat keynote speech, tech security guru Dan Kaminsky said, “Half of all Americans are backing away from the net due to fears regarding security and privacy." According to The Guardian, Kaminsky and other speakers said the global cybersecurity threat is made up of a combination of users' failure to back up data, users clicking on virus-laden links and downloading rogue files bursting with malware, and increasingly sophisticated cyber-criminals who use ransomware to turn ordinary people and companies into ATM's. Kaminsky called for a federal agency devoted to security issues, similar to the National Institutes of Health, that can “create engineering solutions to the real-world security problems that we have”. He said, "It can’t just be two guys. I need a pile of nerds to be able to work for on this 10 years. We can support health and energy and roads and cars, but somehow we can’t support the thing that is driving our economy right now? That’s crazy.”
Paris (France), Sep 11 (EFE), (Camera: Marta Garde).- France wanted all its children to return to school on September 1 with the conviction, according to its Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, that education cannot be sacrificed despite the pandemic, because there is the risk of a global educational catastrophe caused by school dropouts.FOOTAGE OF JEAN-MICHEL BLANQUER IN AN INTERVIEW IN WITH EFE AND RADIO FRANCE INTERNATIONAL TRANSLATIONS:QUESTION: Is the new normality one with a discontinuous education?ANSWER: It is totally normal to close schools preventively in these circumstances. Generally (the cases) come from contamination that has taken place outside the school and it must be said that there are 32 centers out of 60,000 throughout the country.The daily piloting allows us to have a vigilance compatible with our great objective of having a school for everyone.Q: Ensuring social distance in schools has gone from being an obligation to a recommendation in France.A: It is a recommendation that in many cases is followed but in other cases it cannot be followed and that is why there is a general obligation to wear a mask.Q: France was very clear from the end of the confinement that school should be a priority, but countries like Spain extended the return to classes. Should there be a European coordination?A: There should be European coordination and stronger global cooperation. Education is not something that can be sacrificed on these kinds of occasions. We have the risk of a global educational catastrophe, of having millions of students leaving the classroom and not returning.I have tried to reduce this risk in the French case, but we have to do it at the European and global level. Getting everyone into school, especially girls, is an effort of the last decades, and we know that many will not come back. Youth in general and education in particular must be our priorities.Each country has had its own strategy. The important thing is to cooperate to exchange good practices. The design of online courses could be done in common among the countries that speak Spanish. We have taken initiatives of this kind in the French-speaking world.Q: What would happen if the situation continues to worsen in France?A: Experience has shown us that we must be open to all possibilities, but we are trying to avoid another lockdown. Rather, we plan to partially close places and schools, because the situation is different in different territories.The health and social consequences (of a new lockdown) would be too heavy. Educational weakness, unemployment and lack of sociability are very serious problems and that is why we must find balanced formulas in terms of health and priorities.Q: What have we learned from the first wave?A: The use of digital tools has progressed a lot. From March until now there have been many initiatives to train teachers in technologies. The most important thing has been the evolution of mentalities and practices.Q: The confinement made more visible the inequalities in the access to the material to follow the distance courses.A: The crisis has increased this problem in all countries. A first inequality is the computer equipment, so in March, April and May we organized its distribution. We consider that about 5% of the families did not have what they needed and maybe we have halved that figure.Another factor is the personal context of each student, so there is a work of communication with parents and a sensitization of families to the challenges of education, especially to those who did not send students to school when it opened again.Q: Students are not forced to take PCR tests. Is the educational strategy largely based on good faith?A: It is based on the idea that a PCR is not good for everyone at the same time because it would have to be done every day. The strategy is more to do PCR when there are symptoms and if it is positive try to break the chain of contamination.Q: What would be a perfect school year in 2020?A: The most optimistic scenario would be to have an almost normal year thanks to the health measures we have taken. In that scenario, the virus would also disappear in a few months thanks to the vaccine.When there is a difficulty, there can also be positive consequences, for example the sense of hygiene and civility, the ability to find innovative solutions. These elements are positive points coming out of the crisis. FOOTAGE OF AND STATEMENTS BY FRENCH EDUCATION MINISTER JEAN-MICHEL BLANQUER
Brussels (Belgium), 23 Oct (EFE), (Camera: Leo Rodriguez).- The House of European History hosts from this Saturday an exhibition that makes a chronological journey through the Old Continent from the prism of the fakes and imitations, and shows, through more than 200 pieces, the existence of hoaxes from antiquity to the crisis of the Covid-19. The exhibition, called "Fake for Real", starts with a wall of mirrors that reflects a Trojan horse that progressively mutates into a code that represents a Trojan computer virus.FOOTAGE OFART AND STATEMENTS BY ROCÍO DEL CASAR, HEAD MANAGER OF THE COLLECTION IN THE HOUSE OF EUROPEAN HISTORY.TRANSLATIONS: "This is an exposition on fakes from a historical point of view.It is also very relevant for us that our audience can acquire the mechanisms and guidelines to discover what is the truth behind each ad.Well, we have exhibited around 235/240 pieces of which many are part of our own collection and the rest we have brought from museums and institutions from throughout Europe."
After a pilot error causes a devastating airline crash, Devain Industries unveils the CD70 -- a revolutionary automated system invented by Tom Woodard (Casper Van Dien of Starship Troopers) and his wife Samantha (Nicole Eggert of "Baywatch") designed to someday make human pilots obsolete. But when reckless playboy Charles Devain (Patrick Muldoon of Starship Troopers and "Melrose Place") and his billionaire father (Brad Dourif of Halloween and "Deadwood") insist on using the prototype for a celebratory VIP flight from Los Angeles to New York City, a computer virus triggers a terrifying chain of events: The 747 goes off-course during a lightning storm. Their communication systems are dead. And the Pentagon wants to blast the crippled jet - and its passengers - out of the sky. Even if Tom can make a mid-air transfer at 30,000 feet, will he be able to disengage the infected system, or will Tom and the passengers fall victim to Turbulent Skies?
At the start of his appearance at the UK's Covid-19 inquiry, Prime Minister and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak says he is "deeply sorry... to all of those who lost loved ones, family members, through the pandemic." SOUNDBITE
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives to give evidence at Britain's Covid-19 inquiry. During the pandemic he was Britain's Finance Minister, and has faced criticism for his implementation of a scheme called 'Eat Out To Help Out'. Designed to revive demand for restaurants after they were closed in Covid lockdowns, the scheme has been criticised for potentially helping spread the disease, with senior scientists saying they weren't consulted. IMAGES
Former prime minister Boris Johnson apologises to families of Covid victims, as he began giving evidence at a UK public inquiry into his government's handling of the pandemic. "I am deeply sorry for the pain and the loss and the suffering of those victims and their families," he says at the start of two days in the witness box. Johnson, who has faced a barrage of criticism from his former aides for his indecisiveness and a lack of scientific understanding during the pandemic, is expected to admit that he "unquestionably made mistakes" during two days at the inquiry London. SOUNDBITE
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives at a public inquiry where he is expected to be grilled over his government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Johnson, who has faced a barrage of criticism from his former aides for his indecisiveness and a lack of scientific understanding during the pandemic, is expected to admit that he "unquestionably made mistakes" during two days at the inquiry in London. IMAGES
The end of AIDS is still possible by 2030, the director of the United Nations' AIDS taskforce insists. Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS, tells a press conference at the Palais des Nations in Geneva that there is a roadmap of investment, evidence-based prevention and treatment that "shows that there is a path that ends AIDS by 2030." The UN first set out in 2015 the target of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. SOUNDBITE
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