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Cybercrime has rocketed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic as many try to exploit people’s fears. Below are tips on how to protect yourself.
The introduction of measures to contain the coronavirus means we are spending more time online, whether teleworking or surfing. Combined with anxieties caused by the crisis, this often results in unsafe online behaviour and cybercriminals are exploiting these weaknesses.
They use phishing, installing malware and other malicious practices to steal data and access devices, allowing them to do anything from accessing bank accounts to organisations’ databases.
The most common Covid-19 cyber-attacks:
Fake messages or links exploiting concerns, driving to malicious websites or including malware themselves, including news about miracle cures, fake maps about the spread of the virus, donation requests, emails impersonating healthcare organisations
Fake messages or calls purporting to be from Microsoft, Google Drive etc. trying to get hold of your login and password by offering “help” or threatening the suspension of your account
Fake messages about non-existent package deliveries
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In the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, two scientists from the Poznań University of Medical Sciences – prof. Michał Nowicki, PhD, and Piotr Rzymski, PhD – wrote an open letter to the academic world calling on the universities to proactively develop policies countering discrimination related to the virus.
The letter was published on 20 March 2020 by the prestigious Science Magazine in open-access mode and can be found on the webpage https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6484/1313.1/. It includes good practices that could be introduced by the higher education institutions to lessen COVID-19 prejudice.
The publication indicates among other things that the preventive measures taken by the universities should include transparency about the disease status, data gathering, and direction about appropriate behaviour, as well as issuing reassuring statements about the local COVID-19 situation.
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Scientists and academics from Poznań have been actively mobilising to devise and implement initiatives aimed at multiple aspects of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań, Poznań University of Medical Sciences and Poznań University of Economics and Business are some of the institutions that are engaged in efforts to counter COVID-19. The Government of the Wielkopolska Region is also taking concrete action.
The Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań developed a new prototype test for COVID-19.
Willing to strengthen the coronavirus diagnostic efforts in Wielkopolska Region, the Institute formed a „virus support group” which involves around 40 people working in shifts on a volunteer basis in the Institute’s laboratories. On 19 March there were 180 tests carried out every 24 hours, with a potential to achieve a number of 270 tests every 24 hours.
In order to support the supply of virus isolation and detection kits, the Institute decided to develop its own test based on reagents coming exclusively from Polish manufacturers and Institute’s own production.
On 20 March, the Institute’s director, prof. Marek Figlerowicz, PhD, announced that the scientists managed to create a prototype test consisting of some universal and available elements, using reagents of the Institute’s own production. The effectiveness of the prototype was confirmed by comparing results with those offered by other currently available tests.
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StrategiaWlkp2030
In Wielkopolska region public consultations are currently underway on the strategy of the development for the region until 2030.
The presented abstract contains the most important information about the Development strategy of the Wielkopolska Region until 2030 submitted for public consultation, i.e. the main challenges facing the region, but also the goals, activities and tools for their implementation. This document will be used to prepare the region, among others, to the next financial perspective of the European Union.
The document is available here.
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