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12/14/2023
Russian hackers have been taking advantage of a point of vulnerability in a widely-used piece of software made by the Czech company JetBrains, the US National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have said in a joint statement. The three organisations worked with Polish military intelligence and the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to assess the problem.
The report concerns a program called TeamCity, which is used by software developers all over the world. The US authorities warn that by exploiting this weakness in the software, malicious actors can gain access to the developer's source code and implant their own malicious code, which unsuspecting users then install on their computers as part of their regular updates. This then gives the hackers permanent access to the networks, systems and supply chain operations of the targeted organisations.
The company behind the software, JetBrains, told the Czech News Agency that it was aware of the vulnerability and had fixed it in a program update released in September. They added that according to available statistics, less than two percent of users are running the unpatched software.
JetBrains was founded in Prague in 2000 by three Russian programmers, and over the next 20 years grew to over 1,000 employees. Big-name firms and organisations like Google, Samsung, Volkswagen and NASA have used its software in the past.
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12/13/2023
The agreement reached by around 200 nations at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai to transition away from fossil fuels is a step towards modernisation through renewable energy, nuclear power, carbon storage, and hydrogen, Environment Minister Petr Hladík said on the social media site X on Wednesday, following the announcement of the deal. However, Richard Brabec, the Czech environment minister from 2014 to 2021, told the Czech News Agency that people should be wary of excessive optimism, particularly in light of the limited action on fulfilling the agreed goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Accords.
The deal struck at COP28 is regarded by some as historic, as it is the first time that fossil fuels have been explicitly mentioned in a COP treaty - previous agreements talked about reducing greenhouse gas emissions without explicitly mentioning fossil fuels. However, some were unhappy with the deal, which they view as having been watered-down.
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12/13/2023
Around 60 well-known people from the worlds of film, music, literature, academia, charities, NGOs, and politics have called on Prime Minister Petr Fiala to push for financial aid to Ukraine at Thursday's EU summit, even in the case of a Hungarian veto. In an open letter to the Czech leader, they wrote that it is not permissible for one person, who is suspected of being connected to the Kremlin, to block the will of a group of 26 economically strong democratic countries, and appealed to the prime minister to promote a separate financial mechanism for other EU countries to supply Ukraine with aid in the event of a Hungarian veto.
At Thursday's EU summit, leaders are supposed to discuss the start of EU accession talks with Ukraine, long-term financial aid worth 50 billion euros and military aid worth 500 million euros, and the twelfth package of sanctions against Russia. However, there are doubts about Hungary's position, as last week, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called for the opening of accession talks not to be a topic on the agenda at the upcoming summit, but rather for a "strategic discussion" to be held about it first. Representatives of Hungary also announced in November that they would not support long-term financial aid to Ukraine.
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12/13/2023
Thursday is expected to be overcast with a chance of showers throughout the day. Temperatures should range between 2 and 5 degrees Celsius.
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12/13/2023
The singer Aiko will be representing the Czech Republic in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, Czech Television announced on Wednesday. The singer beat fellow performers Elly, Gianna Lei, Tom Sean, Tomas Robin, Lenny, and the band MYDY in the competition to be the face of Czechia in Malmö, Sweden next May, in a vote decided by the public. The seven contenders presented their songs in a performance broadcast live from Prague's Roxy club last week. People then had seven days to vote for their favourite, either via the official Eurovision Song Contest app or Czech Television's website.
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12/13/2023
There are 1,000 people with covid-19 now in hospitals, with that number expected to increase again by Christmas and in the second half of January, Deputy Health Minister Josef Pavlovic said at a press conference on Wednesday. The number of cases and hospitalizations is currently at its highest since last October. However, the minister said that patients are primarily being hospitalised for other reasons, not because of covid, and added that the Ministry of Health is not planning to take any general measures against the spread of the virus.
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12/13/2023
Foreigners legally residing in the Czech Republic now constitute ten percent of the total population, according to the latest figures published by the Czech Statistical Office on Wednesday. The number of foreigners with legal residence at the end of last year rose by 455,305 year-on-year to 1.12 million people. Ukrainians were the nationality that saw the biggest increase in number, and they also make up over half of the total number of foreigners in Czechia, with over 630,000 registered in the country at the end of 2022. Slovak and Vietnamese citizens respectively make up the next largest groups.
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12/13/2023
The biggest Czech opposition party, ANO, would have won general elections in November with 34 percent of the vote suggests a new poll by the Ipsos agency for Seznam Zprávy published on Wednesday. Government leaders the Civic Democrats would have come second on 13 percent, with the Pirate Party in third on 10.5 percent and Freedom and Direct Democracy fourth on 9 percent, the survey indicates.
Another poll, by the Kantar CZ agency, published at the weekend gave ANO 34.5 percent.
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12/13/2023
Czechia voted against a United Nations General Assembly resolution on Tuesday calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. It was one of 10 states – including the US – which did not support the resolution, which was passed by 153 votes.
The Czechs had sought, and failed, to have the text of the resolution include a passage condemning the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel in October.
The Czech ambassador to the UN, Jakub Kulhánek, said the country had voted against with a heavy heart.
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12/12/2023
The leader of the Social Democrats’ candidates list for next year’s European Parliament elections, Lubomír Zaorálek, has contacts all over Europe, the party’s leader, Michal Šmarda, said at a news conference in Prague on Tuesday.
Mr. Zaorálek is a former foreign minister and arts minister and Mr. Šmarda said he would not be lost at European level, unlike the candidates of other parties.
The party’s chairman said the Euro elections were the start of the Social Democrats’ battle to make a return in Czech politics. The grouping failed to make it back into the lower house in the last general elections.
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