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Published on: Sunday, March 07, 2021 By: Dr Rahimatsah Amat Text Size: Pix above and below shown poachers caught on camera. I CAN sense the frustrations of the former Chief Conservator of Forests (CCF), Datuk Sam Mannan on the issue related to illegal entry into forest reserves under the Forest Enactment 1968. During his tenureship as CCF together with his deputy (who is the current CCF), we had discussions on it, and it had been more than 10 years the Sabah Forestry Department raised and broug...

How technology can help us achieve at least 30% ocean protection (commentary) by Simon Cripps on 3 March 2021 A growing number of countries are pledging to protect and conserve at least 30 percent of the ocean by 2030. Securing such a vast area requires new cutting-edge technology to monitor illegal activities and movements of species. Luckily, this field has been developing fast with new inventions and tech collaborations. The goal can be achieved by combining data from a range of sources, co...

ITU Naleku and Roho spend a lot of time squabbling with each other on Instagram. The two young friends from East Africa are orphan elephants, among the youngest in the care of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. The Trust, which runs an elephant rescue and rehabilitation programme, uses its social media account to raise awareness about the disappearance of wildlife habitats. This includes sharing the stories of the elephants with its 840,000 followers. Instagram is only one way to build a community t...

Financial Report King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based UHS, a publicly traded company, disclosed Thursday in its 2020 fourth quarter and year-end financial statement that an "IT incident" last fall resulted in “an aggregate unfavorable pre-tax impact of approximately $67 million" for the year that ended Dec. 31, 2020. While UHS has not publicly confirmed the exact nature of the incident, the outage previously has been widely reported as a ransomware attack, likely involving the Ryuk variant (se...

M1 Mac SSD lifespan concerns might not be a clear-cut case JC Torres - Feb 23, 2021, 6:51pm CST The new Macs based on the Apple M1 Silicon have brought a lot of new and exciting things to Apple’s computing platform. As with any new thing, there are also questions and concerns about the changes that these bring. It’s no surprise, then, that users, developers, and tech pundits are a bit worried about reports surrounding the longevity of the new M1 Macs’ SSDs but the numbe...

Disaster Declaration Issued for Brown County

Get Permission A California-based eye care provider – which also handles billing and other administrative services for a separate local surgery practice – says its online storage vendor was recently hit by hackers and paid a ransom for the return of patient data stolen from both entities. In a statement, Harvard Eye Associates says its unnamed storage vendor – "after consulting with cybersecurity experts and the FBI" – decided to pay the hackers in exchange for returning the data pert...

Get Permission Many of the major health data breaches added to the federal tally so far this year involve business associates, continuing a trend in recent years. The largest breach added so far in 2021 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website – which lists health data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals – is a vendor hacking incident reported on Jan. 29 by Florida Healthy Kids Corp., a provider of childrens health and dental health pla...

Implementing the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) Published 18 January 2021 © Crown copyright 2021 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3 or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email: psi@nationalarchives.gov.uk. Where we have identif...

Get Permission A Florida-based company that provides support services to hundreds of dental practices in 20 states says it’s been hacked, exposing information – including payment card numbers - on more than 1 million patients. If details are confirmed by federal regulators, the incident would be one of the largest health data breaches reported so far this year. On Oct. 11, Sarasota, Florida-based Dental Care Alliance discovered the hacking incident, according to a breach notification repor...