In April, Kaspersky experts discovered a number of highly targeted attacks against multiple companies utilising a previously undiscovered chain of Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows zero-day exploits. One of the exploits was used for remote code execution in the Chrome web browser, while the other was an elevation of privilege exploit fine-tuned to target the […]
Matt Dow, Wastewater facilities manager, Burlington Matt Dow has spent most of his adult life talking about what happens after you flush the toilet. click image The second-generation wastewater operator manages the City of Burlington s three treatment plants. His late father was the superintendent of the South Burlington wastewater plant, and his mother s cousin runs the Essex facility. Needless to say, it wasn t uncommon for sewage to be a topic of dinnertime conversation. These days Dow, 40, is more likely to be found behind a desk than out in the field, but the coronavirus pandemic offered him a hands-on assignment. Last summer, Dow and the city s COVID-19 Analytics Team began testing wastewater for viral markers of the coronavirus to track and prevent outbreaks. Dow, a 16-year department veteran, chose the testing locations, collected specimens from manholes and packaged up h
Applications for disaster unemployment assistance being accepted in Louisiana
Residents ask for an increase in state unemployment benefits during a rally at the Louisiana Capitol.
As a result of President Joe Biden’s disaster declaration for the mid-May storms in Louisiana, the state Workforce Commission is offering disaster unemployment assistance (DUA) available to businesses and residents.
The Louisiana Workforce Commission is accepting applications for DUA until the deadline of July 6 from individuals and businesses in the parishes of Ascension, Calcasieu, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, and Lafayette whose employment or self-employment was lost or interrupted as a direct result of the storms, tornadoes and flooding that occurred May 17 to May 21.
LWC is accepting applications for Disaster Unemployment Assistance from residents and businesses in Ascension, Calcasieu, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, and Layette Parishes that were affected by the May 2021 flood.