Cybersecurity threat landscape

Cybersecurity threats are rapidly evolving as new threats and sophisticated cybercriminal strategies emerge, creating significant challenges for organizations and the public. According to the Kaspersky Incident Response Analyst Report 2023, 75% of cyberattack attempts exploited Microsoft Office, with the most common infection vectors being publicly available applications and compromised accounts. Attackers

UN environmental assembly call for action to address planetary triple threat

The  Sixth United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA-6)  ended with delegates calling for firm actions to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature loss, and pollution. The assembly also reaffirmed its call for “environmental multilateralism” in seeking solutions to the threats, noting that time was running out fast before the

Is Belarus the next serious threat to the West?

Belarus would be willing to use nuclear weapons in the face of foreign “aggression”, said the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko. Europe’s longest-serving leader warned that if he felt provoked by neighbouring Nato nations like Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, he would “immediately respond with everything we have”, including the nuclear weapons Moscow

Resist threat to national security from tech-led crimes: PM

 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday stressed the need for addressing traditional and non-traditional threats to national security as the use of new technologies has changed the pattern of crimes like terrorism and militancy."Nowadays, the security concept has been changed. The digital devices have changed the pattern of terrorism, militancy

No benefit in intimidating Sheikh Hasina: Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader Friday said there will be no benefit by issuing threat to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as she never fears the showdown of BNP. "To intimidate Sheikh Hasina will yield no result although BNP leaders are in defensive mood in words, an aggressive showdown remains

2 cops withdrawn over threats to Akhi’s father

Two policemen have been withdrawn from their duties and attached to the police lines in Sirajganj on charges of threatening the father of Bangladesh Women's SAFF Championship-winning team member Akhi Khatun. The penalised policemen are Mamunur Rashid, an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) at Shahzadpur Police Station, and Constable Abu Musa. They went to

BNP is now threatening police: Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader Monday said BNP is now intimidating the police force by making it a new opponent. "BNP is now making the country's police force a new opponent, which proves that they (BNP leaders) are the masterminds behind the so-called sanction conspiracy," he said in a statement. Responding