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ScotiaBank fined US$22.5 Million for Operating Like Fraudsters/Gangsters.

https://youtu.be/FIbWJQ2OI7k

Trust no one. Naked!!

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US To Hold Trade Talks with Taiwan In A Move Blasted By China

As per the recent news, US trade officials have visited Taiwan to start off four days of negotiations over a proposed trade arrangement that has drawn resistance from the People’s Republic of China.

The meeting which is scheduled between US and Taiwanese negotiators in Taipei marks the first formal discussion over a text of a trade agreement after a beginning round of meetings in November. The discussion will be focused on proposed deals covering anti-corruption standards, trade by SMEs, administrative practices, and trade assistance.

As the U.S. and Taiwan agree in some of these areas, the two sides may declare independent arrangements regarding those subjects for what Taiwanese authorities called an “early harvest” as momentum works towards an extensive trade agreement. These two areas that have demonstrated more challenges between the US and Taiwan are - agriculture & digital trade which are likely to take longer to discuss.

The potential trade agreement between Taiwan and the US has disturbed Chinese authorities, a representative for the Chinese Embassy blamed Americans for “wrongdoings” by even arranging the deal, as per reported.

Read more: https://www.axioscreditbank.com/blogs/us-to-hold-trade-talks-with-taiwan-in-a-move-blasted-by-china

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क्या पता नहीं चलेगा कहां से आया कोरोना? जांच कर रहीं अमेरिकी एजेंसियों ने भी हारी हिम्मत

क्या पता नहीं चलेगा कहां से आया कोरोना? जांच कर रहीं अमेरिकी एजेंसियों ने भी हारी हिम्मत

वॉशिंगटन. कोरोना वायरस (Coronavirus) की उत्पत्ति कहां से हुई? इस सवाल का जवाब तलाश रही अमेरिकी एजेंसियों (US Agencies) के हाथ कुछ खास नहीं लगा है. शुक्रवार को जारी एक रिपोर्ट में कहा गया है कि शायद वे यह जानकारी कभी हासिल नहीं कर सकेंगे कि कोविड-19 (Covid-19) कहां से आया. जांच की जा रही थी कि कोरोना वायरस जानवरों से इंसानों में आया या लैब से लीक किया गया है. साथ ही एजेंसीज ने बायोवैपन या जैव…

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Instructions Reveal How US Agencies Use GrayKey to Bypass Locked iPhones

Instructions Reveal How US Agencies Use GrayKey to Bypass Locked iPhones

GrayKey is a popular iPhone ‘hacking’ tool widely used by law enforcement agencies in the U.S. to extract data from locked iPhones. Even though the tool is now said to be no longer working after iOS 12, reports of the FBI unlocking an iPhone 11 Pro running iOS 13 have come up. GrayKey is known to use the brute force technique to bypass locked iPhones, by using all the possible lock screen…

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Russian hackers still target U.S., other foreign organisations: U.S. security agencies

Russian hackers still target U.S., other foreign organisations: U.S. security agencies

The latest advisory warns organisations that hackers do not seem to back down. (Subscribe to our Today’s Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.) Russian hackers are still targeting U.S. and foreign entities to gather intelligence for future cyberattacks, the US security and intelligence agencies warned. In a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory,…

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US Agencies Made It Harder To Reunite Immigrant Families Because They Failed To Keep Accurate Records, Report Finds

The unpublished report by the Government Accountability Office said the failure of US agencies to accurately track and share data made it harder for immigrant families to be reunited.

All US agencies involved in separating immigrant families failed to accurately track parents and children, making it difficult for the government to reunite them in some cases, according to an unpublished report from the Government Accountability Office that was obtained by BuzzFeed News on Tuesday.

The report, slated to be published Wednesday, looked at the coordination between the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which takes custody of separated immigrant children.

Investigators looked at 40 records of children who were separated between June 2018 and March 2019 and found that Border Patrol agents didn't initially record 14 as having entered the US with a parent and failed to record the separation. The GAO also found an additional 10 children among the 40 whose family separations were not documented in Border Patrol’s data system as required.

"It is unclear the extent to which Border Patrol has accurate records of separated family unit members in its data system," the report states.

The GAO also found that Border Patrol agents inconsistently recorded information about the reasons for and circumstances surrounding family separations on required forms. Border Patrol officials said data-entry errors may have been the result of the demands agents faced amid an increase in families they apprehended.

Bennie Thompson, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, said it was damning that the public may never have a full accounting of how many families were separated and that Border Patrol still may not be properly tracking them.

“Not only was this administration’s family separation policy heartless — they bungled its implementation at every turn," Thompson said in a statement. "The Acting DHS Secretary claims no children have been lost — but is withholding documents on this matter from Congress. It’s time for the Administration to come clean and provide these so we can get a full accounting of this policy.”

The GAO findings follow other government watchdog reports that have taken the Trump administration to task for the way it separated families at the southern border. In the spring of 2018, the Trump administration announced the so-called zero-tolerance policy that led to thousands of children being systematically separated from their parents by immigration authorities.

The Trump administration's efforts to reunite families were hindered due to its lack of accurate and systemic records. At one point, government agencies in charge of reuniting separated immigrant families claimed to have streamlined the process with a central interagency database that tracks the location of children and parents, but a government watchdog report later found no evidence it ever existed.

Another agency that separates families in its custody, ICE, relies on a manual process to track family separations and doesn't systematically record the information in its data system, the report states.

"Without a mechanism to do so, ICE does not have reasonable assurance that parents whom ICE separated from their children and are subject to removal are able to make arrangements for their children, including being removed with them," the report adds.

At the height of family separations in 2018, some parents were deported without their children or were released into the US without any information on where their kids were, making reunification difficult. Even if they had information from one agency, there was no guarantee another US agency had the same information to help facilitate their reunification.

This was due, in part, to agencies not sharing information as they should, the GAO report says, despite interagency agreements within DHS and HHS regarding unaccompanied minors, which is what separated children were listed as by the government.

Employees at DHS haven't consistently provided information and documents to HHS per the agreements, which the agency needs in order to figure out where to place the child in its care, the GAO said.

"Increased collaboration between DHS and HHS about information sharing would better position HHS to make informed and timely decisions for UAC," the report states.

DHS's formal written reply to the report said that amid having to process a large number of families apprehended at the border, it issued policies, guidance, and implemented a new system to strengthen processing and address reporting gaps.

DHS also said that ICE and CBP share information with HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement when it comes to helping them reunite children.

"DHS and its components remain committed to continuing collaborative efforts with major stakeholders to improve the processing of family units and collection of data, while safeguarding the American people, our homeland, and our values," said Jim Crumpacker, director of the liaison office with the GAO.

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New Government IT Services launched by Microsoft - TechHound

Microsoft is well moving towards its efforts in enhancing IT modernization operation and communications for a number of government agencies. The tech giant is serving with new updates to Microsoft 365 Government Cloud and other cloud-based services and platform capabilities. The company has announced the GSA (General Services Administration) and the DOD (Department of Defense …

New Government IT Services launched by Microsoft.