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North Korean hackers ramp up bank heists: U.S. government cyber alert

“North Korean cyber actors have demonstrated an imaginative knack for adjusting their tactics to exploit the financial sector as well as any other sector through illicit cyber operations,” Bryan Ware, a senior cybersecurity official at the U.S. Homeland Security Department, said in a prepared statement.

Cybersecurity experts and foreign policy analysts have said these types of hacking operations are conducted to help fund the North Korean government, which is cash-strapped due to expansive sanctions continuously placed on it by the U.S. and other western countries.

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Uber Vows Better Disclosure of Safety Data on Self-Driving Cars

The National Transportation Safety Board voted in 2019 that the probable cause of the crash was “the failure of the vehicle operator to monitor the environment and the operation of the automated driving system because she was visually distracted throughout her trip by her personal cellphone.”

The board also cited three shortcomings by Uber: the company’s inadequate safety risk assessment procedures; ineffective oversight of vehicle operators; and lack of adequate mechanisms to address complacency by operators as the cars drove themselves.Voluntary Approach

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Climate change bigger economic risk than Pandemic, ECB’s Schnabel says

With climate change posing an even bigger risk, the ECB must keep this issue high on its agenda as it reviews its policy framework, Schnabel told Reuters in an interview.

“Climate change is probably the biggest challenge we are facing, much bigger than the pandemic,” Schnabel said.

“Even though this health shock was entirely unrelated to monetary policy, it nevertheless has huge implications for monetary policy,” she said. “The same is true for climate change and this is why central banks cannot ignore it.”

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COVID-19: Nestle says consumer behaviour changing, essentials ”taking precedence” over luxury

“The words quality, safety, nutrition and trust have undergone sharper re-definition and consumers tend to favour ‘tried and tested’ brands and relationships formed herein,” the CMD said. There is a new word that has been added to the lexicon of consumer needs in the pandemic, which is ‘immunity’ for self and the family, said Nestlé India chairman Suresh Narayanan .

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Climate change to drive large future Cat losses

It’s a mess at least partially of our own making, said Susan Cutter, director of the Hazards and Vulnerability Institute at the University of South Carolina.

“We are seeing an increase of intensity of these phenomena because we as a society are fundamentally changing the Earth and at the same time we are moving to locations that are more hazardous,” Cutter said Wednesday.

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IRDAI asks applications for the 2nd cohort of the Regulatory Sandbox

The window for filing of applications shall open on 15thSeptember, 2020 and close on 14th October, 2020.

The IRDAI has created a Regulatory Sandbox whose objective is to use innovative ideas to foster growth and increase the pace of most innovative companies, in a way that provides flexibility in dealing with regulatory requirements and at the same time focussing on policyholder protection.

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