On nonporous surfaces such as stainless steel, the new coronavirus takes 18 hours to lose half its strength in a dark, low-humidity environment, Bryan said.
In a high-humidity environment, that half-life dropped to six hours, and when the virus was exposed to high humidity and sunlight, the half-life dropped to two minutes, he said.
Researchers found a similar effect with the coronavirus that was suspended in the air - simulating the coughing or sneezing that often spreads the disease. In a dark room, the virus maintained half its strength for an hour.Important note: The data from this study hasn't been released and is disputed by WHO.
NY Times - Some Companies Seeking Bailouts Had Piles of Cash, Then Spent It -
Still, the crisis has exposed the potential failings of a strategy embraced by many big companies: aligning their priorities with the interests of shareholders, many of whom are narrowly focused on the performance of a company’s shares. Shareholders, wanting stock prices to go higher, pushed management to use up cash on buybacks and dividends. And senior executives, paid largely in stock and on the basis of how the stock performed, were happy to oblige. The result was that companies often didn’t have much spare cash, leaving them even more exposed to economic downturns.
“They should have built up some buffers against such sudden shocks and risk,” said Willi Semmler, an economics professor at the New School for Social Research in New York.California - Judge tosses California law requiring background checks for ammunition -
"Criminals, tyrants, and terrorists don't do background checks," he added. "The background check experiment defies common sense while unduly and severely burdening the Second Amendment rights of every responsible, gun-owning citizen desiring to lawfully buy ammunition."
Benitez reportedly claimed the law blocked legitimate sales to law-abiding citizens, about 16 percent of the time. He also ruled that California's ban on importing ammo from outside the state violates federal interstate commerce laws.CNN - US health officials said months ago risk to the public was low. But coronavirus was already spreading -
New research and two February deaths confirmed as virus-related add to evidence that the coronavirus was spreading in the US much earlier than experts initially thought.
The developments suggest many more people have been infected than official tallies show, and that the fatality rate from the virus may be lower than it seemed, public health experts say.
As oil prices continue to plunge and deeply indebted independent US producers begin to close, the American dream of energy independence is quickly fading away. While shale oil had allowed the US to become the world's largest petroleum producer, averaging nearly 17.9 million barrels per day earlier this year, US total petroleum output could fall by between 2 million and 3 million barrels per day by the end of 2020, according to US Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette.
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As America's goal of energy independence slips away, the US government will need to appease, collaborate with and seek favor with those countries that are feeding its massive, oil-hungry economy as it has in the past. Foremost among these is Saudi Arabia, which has evinced its newfound ability to control the future trajectory of oil markets by showing how truly vulnerable the American oil industry is to the kingdom's energy policy. In this new environment, America will be forced to reconfigure its foreign and economic policies to face the new reality of energy interdependence.Security Week - Flaws in ABB DCS Allow Hackers to Cause Disruption in Industrial Environments
William Knowles, a researcher at industrial cybersecurity firm Applied Risk, has identified several types of vulnerabilities in ABB System 800xA and some related products.
Knowles told SecurityWeek that the vulnerabilities can allow an attacker with network access to the targeted system to cause DoS conditions or to gain an initial foothold on an operator’s computer. The researcher pointed out that even if the targeted operator has limited privileges, the attacker can exploit some of the flaws to gain full administrative access.
While exploitation of these vulnerabilities is unlikely to allow an attacker to cause destruction due to the safety control systems that are typically deployed in industrial environments, they can still be exploited to cause disruption.Security Boulevard - Advanced Encryption Standard (AES): What It Is and How It Works -
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) established AES as an encryption standard nearly 20 years ago to replace the aging data encryption standard (DES). After all, AES encryption keys can go up to 256 bits, whereas DES stopped at just 56 bits. NIST could have chosen a cipher that offered greater security, but the tradeoff would have required greater overhead that wouldn’t be practical. So, they went with one that had great all-around performance and security.
AES’s results are so successful that many entities and agencies have approved it and utilize it for encrypting sensitive information. The National Security Agency (NSA), as well as other governmental bodies, utilize AES encryption and keys to protect classified or other sensitive information.Threatpost - Nintendo Confirms Breach of 160,000 Accounts -
Over the past few weeks, Nintendo gamers have been reporting suspicious activities on their accounts. According to the complaints, aired out on Twitter and Reddit, unauthorized actors were logging into victims’ accounts and abusing the payment cards connected to the accounts to buy digital goods on Nintendo’s online stores, such as V-Bucks, in-game currency used in Fortnite.
In a Friday statement, Nintendo said that attackers have been abusing its NNID (Nintendo Network ID) legacy login system since the beginning of April to hack into the accounts. NNID was primarily used for the Nintendo 3DS handheld and Wii U console (both now discontinued). This is different from a Nintendo account, which is used for the Nintendo Switch (Nintendo’s most recent gaming console, released in 2017).
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