By Jang Jaswal, as told to Danny Bonvissuto
I grew up in India and migrated to the United States in the mid-’80s.
It was stressful to settle down into the American lifestyle, because I couldn’t find a job in my field. Before I moved to America, I was the head of the science department at Narayan Indian College in the Fiji Islands. In those days, we didn’t have the internet: You read the newspaper, applied for jobs, and waited for someone to answer. So I drove a truck until I found a position in quality control for pharmaceuticals.
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Police agencies around the world including the RCMP and the FBI say they have crippled one of the worst malware distribution networks by seizing the infrastructure behind the Emotet botnet.
In addition, U.S. authorities say the distribution of the Netwalker ransomware has also been disrupted. That includes charges against a Canadian and the seizing of approximately US$454,530 in cryptocurrency from ransom payments.
According to an indictment unsealed today in Florida, Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins of Gatineau, Que., is alleged to have obtained at least over US$27.6 million as a result of the offenses listed in the indictment.
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FDA approves breakthrough injectable HIV medication Lenny Bernstein A breakthrough injectable drug combination for HIV, approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, will free some people from a daily pill regimen and may keep more of them on treatment that controls the infection, experts said. Cabenuva, the medication developed by a partnership of ViiV Healthcare and Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, is given every four weeks by medical providers in the form of two injections. Four decades after the first case of HIV was identified, it is the latest and most convenient option for treating what has become a chronic, manageable but still incurable disease.