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India. How Water Challenges Threaten India’s Energy Security (World Resources Institute)

By Daniel Gajardo, Anupriya Goyal, Samantha Kuzma and Sahana Goswami  The start of the 2021 monsoon season was a promising time for India’s farmers and water users. Heavy rains in...

Cybersecurity. DDoS attacks target the Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini The Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan has suffered a massive and prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, Qurium organizations linked it to the local government DDoS...

Cybersecurity. Some Synology products impacted by recently disclosed OpenSSL flaws (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Taiwan vendor Synology announced that recently disclosed vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-3711 and CVE-2021-3712) in the OpenSSL impact some of its products Some Synology products impacted by recently disclosed OpenSSL...

Smarter Farm/Ecosystem Restoration. Smarter Farm Subsidies Can Drive Ecosystem Restoration (World Resources Institute)

By Helen Ding, Will Anderson and René Zamora Cristales  Every year, governments give out $700 billion in agricultural subsidies globally. Though well-intentioned, these farm subsidies sometimes work against their core goal: boosting crop...

Rural Prosperity. Repurposing Agricultural Subsidies to Restore Degraded Farmland and Grow Rural Prosperity (World Resources Institute)

This report highlights why governments should reinvest underperforming public agricultural subsidies in land restoration. Evidence from Africa, Asia and Latin America shows that subsidies...

Afghanistan. US Embassy in Kabul Issues Threat Alert (VoA)

A few hours after U.S. President Joe Biden said another attack on the Kabul airport is likely within the next 24 to 36 hours,...

Israel/Middle East . From the Second Lebanon War to Regional War (BESA Center)

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen The Second Lebanon War was probably the last time Israel was going to be able to focus on fighting on a...

Australia/China. Australia’s ‘China-has-changed’ narrative doesn’t explain damagingly bad ties (East Asia Forum)

Author: Sourabh Gupta, ICAS The Australia–China relationship has been in the deep doldrums for some time now. Australian commentary pins the blame for the deterioration of bilateral...

Cybersecurity. EskyFun data leak, over 1 million Android gamers impacted (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini vpnMentor’s researchers reported that the Chinese mobile gaming company EskyFun suffered a data breach, over 1 million gamers impacted EskyFun data leak, over 1 million Android...

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