Politics debates disaster and climate protection
While the situation in the flood areas calms down, the political debate about the consequences for disaster and climate protection is picking up speed. The Chancellor candidate of the Greens, Annalena Baerbock, spoke out on Monday that the federal government should have a greater coordinating role in supra-regional disasters such as floods or forest fires. “The second point is that we need climate adaptation measures,” she said in the ARD “Morgenmagazin”. CSU boss Markus Söder also called for more efforts in the program and announced a government statement for Wednesday. It will not only be about defining goals, but also about backing them financially with a climate program. Climate protection is not an ideological question, but a question of reason and ethics, said Söder.
Emergency infrastructure in Anhalt-Bitterfeld is in place
Almost two weeks after the ransomware attack on the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district, the district administration’s emergency infrastructure is now ready for use. “This means that the individual departments have been able to work electronically again since Monday. This also includes communication by email,” said a spokesman. The preparatory work was completed over the weekend. In a next step, individual specialist applications such as vehicle registration and parental allowance should work again.
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Surveillance allegations against NSO
An international journalist consortium has published new allegations against the Israeli surveillance software provider NSO Group. IT experts found traces of attacks with the company’s Pegasus software on 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights activists, their family members and business people. According to their presentation, the research of the “Pegasus Project” suggests that hundreds of journalists, human rights activists, opposition activists and politicians were selected to monitor them with the spy software. NSO denied the allegations.
Zoom wants to buy Five9
The video conferencing service Zoom wants to position itself more broadly with its largest acquisition to date. Zoom plans to buy the US company Five9 for 14.7 billion US dollars. Five9 is a cloud software provider for customer communications. The deal is to be financed with own shares, said the video conferencing service in San Jose. The acquisition is primarily intended to help with the further expansion of Zoom Phone, a cloud telephone system for companies.
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