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Why are Russian hackers so scary?

Hacking! A very small word but both its significance and importance are immense. Hackers have the power to destroy a person's life. It is possible to do immense damage to an entire nation. Only through this hacking. What is the example of Bangladesh Bank theft? By sending spam mails and taking control of the server, these hackers transferred thousands of crores of rupees to some foreign bank accounts by exploiting the government holiday period. Some of the money has been brought back, but most of it has not been traced.  If you saw the hacking scenes in South Indian movies and thought that the crackhead who dropped out of the university is sitting in front of the computer day and night for some reason, then you are living in a fool's paradise. Yes, it is not that such hackers do not exist. The number of independent hackers is also not less in the world. But those who have turned hacking into an industry across the world, who have established a reign of terror as hackers, have b

What is Dutch disease? How can the economy suffer from disease?

So what the hell is this Dutch disease? When you hear the word Dutch disease, you will naturally think that it is the name of a disease. Yes it is a disease. But not humans. Not even an animal. So? It is basically a syndrome of economics. But why is the word disease associated with the term economy? What is the role of the Dutch or the Netherlands? No, you don't have to be a student of economics to understand this. But it is quite interesting that the article titled Dutch Diseases and Economic Illnesses Easy to Catch, Difficult to Cure, published by the Booking Institute in 2017, said - what a persistently low oil price, dose to oil richan prizes like what a long cold winter dust to people What is the significance of this? It can be explained in simple Bengali, if the price of oil continues to fall in the world market, then the economy of oil-rich countries dependent on oil may suffer from various problems. Oil here is just a metaphor. Rice, dal, salt, sugar can be anything in plac