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Japan/USA – Update: US indulgence on Fukushima water disposal a ‘political deal’ in exchange for Japan’s strategic adherence: experts (Global Times)

Xu Keyue Liu Caiyu In contrast with the big backlash in the international community especially Japan’s neighboring countries, Washington's indulgence on Tokyo's decision to discharge radioactive...

Japan – Japan’s unilateral decision to discharge waste water from Fukushima nuclear complex into the ocean is extremely irresponsible: FM (Global Times)

Japan's unilateral decision to discharge waste water from the Fukushima nuclear complex into the ocean is extremely irresponsible and will seriously damage international public...

Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba (US Department of State)

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Brussels. Secretary Blinken affirmed the United States’ unwavering support...

Billions of smartphone owners will soon be authorising payments using facial recognition (ZD Net)

Daphne Leprince-Ringuet New analysis shows that facial recognition and other biometric authentication technologies will increasingly help to keep mobile payments safe from fraudsters. https://www.zdnet.com/article/billions-of-smartphone-owners-will-soon-be-authorising-payments-using-facial-recognition/

Microsoft Warns of Malware Delivery via Google URLs (Dark Reading)

A new campaign abuses legitimate website contact forms to send URLs that ultimately deliver the IcedID banking Trojan. https://www.darkreading.com/risk/microsoft-warns-of-malware-delivery-via-google-urls/d/d-id/1340648

1.3M Clubhouse Users’ Data Dumped in Hacker Forum for Free (Threat Post)

Becky Bracken Clubhouse denies it was ‘breached’ and says the data is out there for anyone to grab. https://threatpost.com/clubhouse-users-data-hacker-forum/165354/

Food Shortages at Dutch Supermarkets After Ransomware Outage (Info Security)

Phil Muncaster There were empty shelves at branches of the Netherlands’ largest supermarket chain recently after a ransomware attack on a key logistics supplier. https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/food-shortages-dutch-supermarkets/

Expert publicly released Chromium-based browsers exploit demonstrated at Pwn2Own 2021 (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini An Indian security researcher has published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for a vulnerability impacting Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/116727/hacking/chromium-based-browsers-exploit.html

China – China Still Needs Expansionary Economic Policy (Project-Syndicate)

YU YONGDING To consolidate its post-pandemic growth momentum in 2021, China should not be in a rush to exit from expansionary fiscal and monetary policy....

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