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A vulnerability in a GitHub repository belonging to the United Nations Environment Program exposed over 100,000 employee records, including personally identifiable information, contact details and other sensitive data, according to a group of independent security researchers.
UNEP is responsible for coordinating the U.N. s environmental activities. Sakura Samurai, a new group of ethical hackers, notes in its report the vulnerabilities stemmed from an endpoint that exposed the GitHub repository s credentials. The credentials gave us the ability to download the GitHub repositories, identifying a ton of user credentials and [personally identifiable information]. In total, we identified over [100,000] private employee records, says John Jackson, one of the security researchers in the group.
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Peru’s elemental innovator
Max Hidalgo has developed technology to extract water from the air. courtesy UNEP
LIMA A Peruvian biologist and inventor who is turning wind into water has been named as a winner of an annual UN environmental award.
Max Hidalgo is a recipient of the United Nations Environment Program’s Young Champions of the Earth award for 2020.
Hidalgo has adapted a wind turbine to condense vapor from air to produce water for vulnerable communities affected by climate change in Peru.
The technology he has developed at a cost of $70,000 per unit can provide a village of a hundred people with the water they need to survive.