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Afghanistan. Humanitarian Crisis Needs Urgent Response (HRW)

Afghans wait for hours to try to withdraw money from a bank in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 30, 2021.  © 2021 Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi/AP Photo Afghanistan’s foreign...

Venezuela. A Successful Political Negotiation Needs a Human Rights Agenda (Tamara Taraciuk Broner, HRW)

Jorge Rodriguez, left, representing the Maduro government, shakes hands with Venezuelan opposition delegate Gerardo Blyde Perez, in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. © 2021...

Poland/Afghans. Afghans Stuck at Poland’s Border Need Protection (Lydia Gall, HRW)

Polish security forces surround migrants at the border with Belarus in Usnarz Gorny, Poland on September 1, 2021.  © 2021 Czarek Sokolowski/AP Images While Poland’s government...

El Salvador. New Laws Threaten Judicial Independence (HRW)

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele delivers his annual address to the nation before Congress, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, June 1. © 2021 AP Photo/Salvador...

North Korea. North Korea Controls Youth Through ‘Hard Labor’ (Lina Yoon, HRW)

Farmers plant rice in Rangnang district in Pyongyang, North Korea, May 25, 2021.  © 2021 Jon Chol Jin/AP  North Korea’s economy has taken a hit as...

Europe/Afghanistan. EU’s Cold-Hearted Response to Afghans at Risk (Judith Sunderland, HRW)

Polish soldiers build a fence with concertina wire at the border with Belarus in Krynki, Poland, on August 27, 2021. © 2021 Dominika Zarzycka/Sipa USA/AP...

Cybersecurity. Attacks against SolarWinds Serv-U SW were possible due to the lack of ASLR mitigation (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

SolarWinds did not enable anti-exploit mitigation available since 2006 allowing threat actors to target SolarWinds Serv-U FTP software in July attacks Attacks against SolarWinds Serv-U...

Cybersecurity. WhatsApp CVE-2020-1910 bug could have led to user data exposure (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

The now-fixed CVE-2020-1910 vulnerability in WhatApp ‘s image filter feature could have exposed user data to remote attackers WhatsApp CVE-2020-1910 bug could have led to...

Cybersecurity. New BrakTooth flaws potentially impact millions of Bluetooth-enabled devices (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Security flaws in commercial Bluetooth stacks dubbed BrakTooth can be exploited by threat actors to execute arbitrary code and crash the devices via DoS attacks BrakTooth flaws...

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