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Government cyber agencies around the world are rushing to clamp down on what appears to be an advanced and sophisticated espionage campaign targeting popular security software used by remote workers.   Calling the threat “serious and urgent,” Canada’s Communication Security Establishment’s (CSE) Centre for Cyber Security joined its international allies Thursday …

Some employees of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) who signed a public letter of dissent earlier this week were put on administrative leave Tuesday evening, according to documents reviewed by the Associated Press. More than 180 current and former FEMA employees signed the letter sent to the FEMA …

There’s a very high chance that one of the next five years will set a new heat record. It’s also very likely that the next five years will see average temperatures above the lower limit in the Paris Agreement on climate change, the UN weather agency forecasts. And the Arctic is …

The music agency Sound Talent Group said Thursday that three of its employees, including co-founder Dave Shapiro, died on the private plane that crashed into a San Diego neighborhood. Shapiro is listed as the owner of the plane and has a pilot’s licence, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Shapiro also owned …

The former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) says major funding cuts to the agency could lead to more cases of diseases such as paralytic polio and malaria.  In an interview airing Sunday on CBC’s Rosemary Barton Live, Samantha Power described the consequences of the Trump administration’s decision to …

The Trump administration said Sunday that it was placing all but a fraction of staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on leave worldwide and eliminating at least 1,600 U.S.-based jobs. It was the latest and one of the biggest steps yet toward what President Donald Trump and …

Travelling for international meetings or even joining a call with Canadian counterparts has become impossible for some U.S. government scientists, under new directives since U.S. President Donald Trump took office.  Canadian ecologist Aaron Fisk says he recently tried to set up a virtual call to discuss plans with American colleagues, …

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is facing its greatest threat since its inception over 60 years ago, as President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk spent the weekend impugning the agency that has contributed to Washington being the most critical source of foreign assistance around the …

Chinese hackers remotely accessed several U.S. Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider, the agency said Monday. The department did not provide details on how many workstations had been accessed or what sort of documents the hackers may have obtained, but it said in …

Israel passed a law on Monday banning UNRWA from operating in the country, legislation that could impact the UN Palestinian refugee agency’s work in war-torn Gaza. The lawmakers who drafted the law cited the alleged involvement of some UNRWA staffers in the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, and that some UNRWA staffers …