Reserve Bank of New Zealand
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The Reserve Bank of New Zealand - Te Pūtea Matua said this afternoon it was responding with urgency to a breach of one of its data systems.
In a statement, the bank said a third party file sharing service it used to share and store some sensitive information had been hacked.
Professor of Computer Science at Auckland University, Dave Parry, said the attack was significant.
It was likely to be another government trying to attack the Reserve Bank, he said. Because ultimately if you were coming from a sort of like criminal perspective, the government agencies aren t going to pay your ransom or whatever, so you d be more interested probably coming in from a government to government level.
updated: Jan 01 2021, 19:12 ist
The farmers protest on the Delhi–Haryana border has been on for over a month and is making a record of sorts as the largest protest in the world during the pandemic. Much has been said about the right and the wrong of the protest. There is one aspect that needs more scrutiny.
Let us take the issue of Minimum Support Price (MSP). Everyone and his uncle in the ruling party has promised the farmers that MSP will not be removed. But no one seems to trust them. More crucially, the farmers don’t trust Prime Minister Modi and his words. This is a huge problem. How do people petition the government when they don’t trust its head?
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By Watipaso Mzungu
Under fire
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has questioned the decision by the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi, Dr. Wilson Banda, to keep quiet while officials at the central bank are leaking results of the forensic audit at the central bank.
Malawi Voice understands that the central bank has been conducing a forensic audit whose report is supposed to be released in February 2021.
However, some bits and pieces of the findings have already found their way to the social media.
This has raised the eyebrows of the CDEDI executive director, Sylvester Namiwa, who suspects that this could be a calculated move targeting specific individuals from one region and tribe.
Time to put economy back on the rails
28 Dec 2020 Narendra Modi The passing year is sure to linger on in many Indian minds as the worst that they lived through.
The lockdown the government declared on four-hour notice in March to check the spread of coronavirus was harsher than what people elsewhere experienced.
Closure of factories and businesses left millions jobless. Those who could keep their jobs suffered pay cuts. With no trains or buses to take them home, migrant workers stranded in the cities trekked to distant villages.
As the pandemic struck, the economy went for a tail spin. Data published later showed that during April-June it shrank by 24 per cent (in comparison with the figure for the corresponding quarter of the previous year).