Technology has completely transformed the global food supply system, yet still hasn’t brought an end to hunger. For that to happen, the choices we need to make are political, not technological.
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Why, Vespignani wondered, were computer networks still susceptible to viruses even though millions of individual users had antivirus software? The answer, he discovered, was that if you didn’t inoculate the nodes, malicious code could still zip around the internet with relative ease.
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Though privacy concerns limit the quantity of information they will be able to use, as the pandemic gradually clears, researchers will have data from the most closely tracked outbreak of its kind to gauge the effectiveness of the many strategies countries have used to tackle Covid-19. But the pandemic has reinforced the notion that there are limits to what data science can achieve, despite the clear cost-savings and efficiency that technology promises.
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To be sure, China did eventually take extraordinary and painful steps to quell its domestic outbreak. But it has also taken extreme measures to curate the information that has emerged from ground zero of the pandemic.
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The FBI and DHS say that Beijing’s hacking “jeopardizes” the delivery of much-needed Covid-19 treatment options.
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More than 12 government-backed groups are using the pandemic as cover for digital reconnaissance and espionage, according to a new report.
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Hackers laid the groundwork months ago for attacks. Now they’re flipping the switch.
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Security researchers have spotted the “Scattered Canary” group scamming vital benefits programs amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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As more people work from home and anxiety mounts, expect cyberattacks of all sorts to take advantage.
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