Tag: gaping

25 MAR

Why a hard Brexit Irish border would reopen a ‘gaping wound’ and wreck the Irish peace process

Charles McQuillan / Getty Re-introducing a hard border in Ireland after Brexit would be like re-opening a “gaping wound,” a leading expert has warned. Prominent Northern Ireland academic Katy Hayward said a harder border with technology could destabilise Ireland’s highly sensitive peace process. Her warnings echo those from senior police chiefs who say that border […]

05 OCT

American public pensions suffer from a gaping hole

SCHOOLS in Pennsylvania ought to be celebrating. The state gave them a $ 125m budget increase for 2017-18—enough for plenty of extra books and equipment. But John Callahan of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association says all the increase and more will be eaten up by pension costs, which will rise by $ 164m this year. […]

27 JUN

This Windows Defender bug was so gaping its PoC exploit had to be encrypted

(credit: Microsoft) Microsoft recently patched a critical vulnerability in its ubiquitous built-in antivirus engine. The vulnerability could have allowed attackers to execute malicious code by luring users to a booby-trapped website or attaching a booby-trapped file to an e-mail or instant message. A targeted user who had real-time protection turned on wasn’t required to click […]

25 MAR

There’s a gaping hole in the rationale for Trump’s border wall

There’s a really good reason for President Donald Trump to rethink his hardline anti-immigration promise of building a costly “Great Wall” along the US-Mexico border: Many fewer people are actually trying to cross into the US illegally now than in the past. Those are the findings of a new study released as part of the […]