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U.S. Officials: Beware Of China And Others Trying To Steal COVID-19 Research
As researchers around the globe race to develop a coronavirus vaccine, U.S. authorities are warning American firms to exercise extreme caution in safeguarding their research against China and others with a track record of stealing cutting-edge medical technology.
"We are imploring all those research facilities and hospitals and pharmaceutical companies that are doing really great research to do everything in their power to protect it," Bill Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said in an interview with NPR.
"We don't want that company or the research hospital to be the one a year from now, two years from now, identified as having it all stolen before they finished it," said Evanina, whose center falls under the director of national intelligence.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Britain's National Cyber Security Center recently issued a statement saying hackers are "actively targeting organisations ... that include healthcare bodies, pharmaceutical companies, academia, medical research organisations, and local government."
The statement did not name China or any other country. Reuters reported that hackers linked to Iran tried to break into email accounts at the U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences, which has a potentially promising drug to treat the COVID-19 virus. Iran denied the report.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by krishnoid on Tuesday May 12 2020, @11:44PM
Absolutely, at least one non-peer-reviewed site has at least some level of peer review associated with it, and in many cases, a great deal of consensus and wide dissemination. Oh, you weren't talking about Facebook! My bad.
But it finally took an urgent and simultaneously worldwide/individual-level issue to provide video evidence that at even the highest level of government, blaming, praising, overriding, and diverting wins elections but it doesn't move off the starting square when it comes to producing *any* relevant value from a leader.
We are definitely all in this together when we stare this strategy straight in the face and see the results it doesn't produce -- and maybe identify those people and that behavior in our personal/professional lives, make the connection, and hopefully stop it/them sooner rather than later. Even if we can't fix anything, at least now we have a documented shared experience we can all use as reference, assuming we survive [tenor.com].