Espionage: It’ll take years for US, Europe to unpack China’s and Russia’s spying sprees
First it was SolarWinds, a reportedly Russian hacking campaign that stretches back almost a year and has felled at least nine US government agencies and countless private companies. Now it’s Hafnium, a Chinese group that’s been attacking a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server to sneak into victims’ email inboxes and...
Egypt secures €109 million AfDB loan for rural sewage infrastructure development
Egypt has embarked on a massive rural areas sewage infrastructure for which it has secured €109 million from the African Development Bank to finance the project. The projects will improve sanitation infrastructure and services for rural communities in Luxor Governorate in Egypt’s Upper Nile region, the two parties said in...
Multitude of coronavirus variants found in the US, but the threat is unclear
For the scientists who have spent the past year poring over hundreds of thousands of coronavirus genomes, the United States has been an enigma. Despite having world-leading genome sequencing infrastructure and experiencing more Covid infections than any other country, the United States has until recently lagged far behind in sequencing...
