Analyzing the Hidden Danger of Environment Variables for Keeping Secrets

Analyzing the Hidden Danger of Environment Variables for Keeping Secrets Cloud While DevOps practitioners use environment variables to regularly keep secrets in applications, these could be conveniently abused by cybercriminals for their malicious activities, as our analysis shows. By: David Fiser, Alfredo Oliveira August 17, 2022 Read time:  ( words)Continue Reading

Scientists reveal the neurocircuitry essential for animals to sense environmental cues of imminent danger

Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Reports (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110506 Inborn defensive behaviors, such as flight, freeze and fight, are crucial for animals to survive in a dangerous environment. Neuroscientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently revealed the essential neurocircuitry that is fundamental for animals to perceive and integrate environmentalContinue Reading

World hurtling to climate danger zone, brakes half-pulled | Environment

BERLIN (AP) — Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inaction but also noting hopeful signs of progress. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres saidContinue Reading

Damage to Tibet’s environment is danger for entire humanity

Guest report by Vijay Kranti and Anjali Mishra NEW DELHI, Nov. 30: China’s desperation to dominate and exploit Tibet has gone too far as it has been carrying out multiple projects which have seriously impacted not only Tibetan plateau’s fragile ecology but has also severely exposed the whole of AsiaContinue Reading

An illustration of American and Chinese agents of espionage.

Houston is probably not the setting a spy novelist would have dreamt up for a story about 21st century cat-and-mouse espionage. But the city is home to more than 1,700 life science businesses as well as the Texas Medical Center, a sprawling 50-million-square-foot complex that bills itself as the world’sContinue Reading

Poison hemlock spreads across Indiana, and it is a danger

A toxic invasive species that can prove deadly burst onto the scene in Indiana about 5 years ago. Poison hemlock, which resembles Queen Anne’s Lace, can be spotted in highway right-of-ways, along fences and on the edges of farm fields.  In just the last year, however, this plant has migrated inContinue Reading

Australia’s global lobbying offensive to keep the Great Barrier Reef off the world heritage “in danger” list has secured support from at least nine of the 21-member committee that will make the decision, according to a diplomatic email seen by Guardian Australia. Australia’s Paris-based ambassador to Unesco, Megan Anderson, saidContinue Reading