The Impending Danger: High National Debt Restricts Government Action and Triggers Financial Crises
A Closer Look at the Looming Economic Threat and Strategies for Mitigation In the corridors of power and finance, a growing concern casts its shadow over nations worldwide - the ominous specter of high...
Spotify just made a record profit. What can the platform do now to maintain momentum?
Andrew White, King's College London - It is not much of an exaggeration to say that Spotify saved the music industry. Global revenue for recorded music reached its zenith in 1999 – the...
Severe Vulnerabilities Discovered in Software to Protect Internet Routing
Frankfurt and Darmstadt (ots) - A research team from the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE led by Prof. Dr. Haya Schulmann has uncovered 18 vulnerabilities in crucial software components of Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI). RPKI is an Internet standard meant to protect Internet traffic from being hijacked by hackers. By now, all affected vendors provided patches for their products. The vulnerabilities could have had devastating consequences: Internet hijacks have already been exploited, e.g., for phishing passwords and other sensitive information, tricking certificate authorities into issuing fraudulent Web certificates, stealing cryptocurrency, distributing malware, and poisoning caches of DNS servers. The ATHENE team consisting of Prof. Dr. Haya Schulmann and...
Meet the EU’s answer to crypto: the e-euro
Iordanis Kalaitzoglou, Audencia - In a bid to play catch up with technology companies and younger generations of consumers, central banks are finally starting...
France: Mass protests against higher retirement age
By Lea Fauth - France’s President Emmanuel Macron wants to raise the retirement age by two years. However, 72 percent of French people are against the pension reform—and the...
Africa needs its own credit rating agency: here’s how it could work
Misheck Mutize, University of Cape Town - The credit rating industry in Africa is dominated by the three international agencies: Moody’s, S&P and Fitch. Together they control an estimated 95% of the credit rating business globally. Credit rating agencies are institutions that assess a borrower’s creditworthiness in general terms, or with respect to a particular debt or financial obligation. A...
Recycling tyres and plastics with an ancient heating method
Thermal decomposition is helping to green two major EU manufacturing industries. By Michael Allen - For thousands of years, humans have converted wood into charcoal through a technique called pyrolysis. Now, Jean-Michel Douarre wants...
Portugal caps rents, gives away vacant flats & suspends VAT on basic foodstuffs
By Kasija Milošević - Inflation is driving more and more unexpecting people into poverty. The Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) and...
