https://www.scmp.com/rss/505290/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Cybercriminals increased their rates of spear-phishing attacks by 667 per cent this year due to Covid-19 and online dependency, according to IT security company Barracuda Networks. Spear-phishing is a common online fraud whereby emails are sent from a known or trusted sender to induce targeted individuals to reveal confidential information. Coronavirus-themed malicious emails and fraudulent websites are tapping new trends in online shopping, communication and remote work by taking advantage of... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3106669/address-bar-flaw-and-big-rise-spear-phishing-shows-why-better?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3106669/address-bar-flaw-and-big-rise-spear-phishing-shows-why-better?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Oct 2020 15:00:11 +0000 “Naturally you needed a man with the courage to ride on top of a rocket, and you were grateful that such men existed,” Tom Wolfe wrote in The Right Stuff, his exposé of the astronauts behind Project Mercury in the late 1950s and early ’60s – America’s first space flight programme. They were men who, as Wolfe put it, had “the right stuff”. However, a number of the unsung heroes in humanity’s quest in space at that time were women. Dana Ulery became the first female engineer at Nasa’s Jet... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3104167/women-space-female-astronauts-and-engineers-push-gender?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3104167/women-space-female-astronauts-and-engineers-push-gender?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Oct 2020 20:15:17 +0000 When Vietnamese women fighters were operating the anti-aircraft guns that protected the Gulf of Tonkin in North Vietnam, and female guerillas were stalking the wild mountain ranges of the nation’s Central Highlands, American women were kept well away from the front lines of the Vietnam war. There was no need for American women to fight because the draft meant there was a seemingly endless supply of young American men who could be sent to join the conflict in the Southeast Asian nation. The... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3085401/world-war-ii-anti-nazi-greek-resistance-viet-cong-syrian-kurdish-militia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3085401/world-war-ii-anti-nazi-greek-resistance-viet-cong-syrian-kurdish-militia?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 21 May 2020 21:00:23 +0000 Ambushed and captured by Vietnamese communist guerillas, French journalist Georges Petwhenier was one of the few Westerners to see Viet Cong fighters in their element as they fought US soldiers and their South Vietnamese allies during the Vietnam war. He described their jungle sanctuary in an article in The New York Times published in 1964. “In comparison with the Vietnamese jungle, the bayous of [US state] Louisiana are like an English garden. Tormented by mosquitoes, ants and ticks, one must... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3077059/vietnam-war-art-collected-over-30-years-paints-very?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3077059/vietnam-war-art-collected-over-30-years-paints-very?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:00:06 +0000