Month: April 2020

Videokonferenzen: Teure Zero-Day-Lücken für Zoom auf dem Schwarzmarkt

Bis zu 500.000 US-Dollar kostet eine Sicherheitslücke für die Videokonferenz-Software Zoom. Das scheint überteuert, doch die Plattform ist ein attraktives Ziel. (Coronavirus, Sicherheitslücke)

Bis zu 500.000 US-Dollar kostet eine Sicherheitslücke für die Videokonferenz-Software Zoom. Das scheint überteuert, doch die Plattform ist ein attraktives Ziel. (Coronavirus, Sicherheitslücke)

PocketBook Color eReader heading to Europe this year

Most of the eReaders released in the past two decades have featured black and white E Ink displays. But this could be the year eBook readers with color displays become a thing. Last month two companies announced plans to launch devices with color ePape…

Most of the eReaders released in the past two decades have featured black and white E Ink displays. But this could be the year eBook readers with color displays become a thing. Last month two companies announced plans to launch devices with color ePaper displays for the Chinese market. Now PocketBook says it’s bringing one […]

WHO answers Trump’s attack with call for unity against COVID-19

“When we are divided, the virus exploits the cracks between us.”

A serious man in a suit appears frustrated.

Enlarge / World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a daily press briefing on COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, at the WHO headquaters in Geneva on March 11, 2020. (credit: Getty | Fabrice Coffrini)

The director-general of the World Health Organization called for global unity and continued focus on saving lives and fighting the common enemy, COVID-19, on Wednesday—a day after US President Donald Trump attacked the organization for allegedly “severely mismanaging” the pandemic response. Trump announced he would halt funding to the WHO until his administration reviewed its response.

The WHO, an agency formed in the 1940s by the United Nations and supported by its member states, receives around 15 percent of its funding from the United States.

“We regret the decision of the President of the United States to order a halt in funding to the World Health Organization,” WHO director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (aka Dr. Tedros) said in a press briefing Wednesday. “With support from the people and government of the United States, WHO works to improve the health of many of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people,” he went on.

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