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Use this checklist to prepare for your next trip abroad. Make sure to bring items with you, since quality of items bought overseas cannot be guaranteed. Not all of these items may be relevant to you and your travel plans.

Pack for a Healthy Trip

Prescription medicines

• Your prescriptions
• Travelers’ diarrhea antibiotic
• Medicines to prevent malaria

Medical supplies

• Glasses and contacts
• Medical alert bracelet or necklace
• Diabetes testing supplies

Over-the-counter medicines

• Diarrhea medicine (Imodium or Pepto-Bismol)
• Antihistamine
• Motion sickness medicine
• Cough drops, cough suppressant, or expectorant
• Decongestant
• Pain and fever medicine (acetaminophen, aspirin, or ibuprofen)
• Mild laxative
• Mild sedative or sleep aid

Supplies to prevent illness or injury

• Hand sanitizer (containing at least 60% alcohol) or antibacterial hand wipes
• Water purification tablets
• Insect repellent (with an active ingredient like DEET or picaridin)
• Sunscreen (with UVA and UVB protection, SPF 15 or higher)
• Sunglasses and hat

First-aid kit

• 1% hydrocortisone cream
• Antibacterial or antifungal ointments
• Digital thermometer
• Oral rehydration salts
• Antiseptic wound cleaner
• Aloe gel for sunburns
• Insect bite anti-itch gel or cream
• Disposable gloves
• Cotton swabs (Q-Tips)
• Copies of your passport and travel documents
• Copies of all prescriptions (medications, glasses, or medical supplies)
• Health insurance card and documents
• Proof of yellow fever vaccination (if required for your trip)
• Contact card with the street addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of: Family member or close contact in the United States
• Health care provider(s) at home
• Lodging at your destination
• Hospitals or clinics (including emergency services) in your destination
• US embassy or consulate in the destination country or countries

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• Check the Transportation Security Administration website for updates on permitted and prohibited items, including medicines that you are allowed to carry onto an airplane.
• Some items may not be allowed in other countries. It is a good idea to check the  Customs and Import Restrictions section of the U.S. Department of State Tips for Traveling Abroad.
• Enroll in the Department of State Smart Traveler Enrollment Program to get the latest safety updates and help in an emergency.

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B.C. retailers up cybersecurity defences to avoid attacks

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Kit and Ace CEO David Lui closely followed news about the recent cyberattack against London Drugs — an ordeal that forced the large B.C.-based retailer to close all 79 stores for a week in late April and early May before opening locations in tranches.

B.C. Solicitor General Mike Farnworth then made headlines on May 9, when he confirmed what he called a "sophisticated attempt to breach protected B.C. government information systems."  

As a retailer, Lui told BIV  he feared for his own business.

“It’s always top of mind to protect our customers’ data,” Lui said. “We are constantly on alert because we handle personal data through our e-commerce platform.”

Lui said that his information technology (IT) team is on heightened alert to make sure the company is protected, and that his entire management team pays attention to cybersecurity risks.

His company uses Shopify Inc. (TSX:SHOP) to house much of its e-commerce data because he said that company is “pretty good from a security standpoint.”

The April 28 attack on London Drugs likely cost the company at least tens of millions of dollars in costs and revenue losses. London Drugs and its Louie-family owners are well known for not providing revenue or financial data. The company’s website notes that the general-merchandise retailer employs more than 8,000 workers.

The hackers cost London Drugs revenue during the period it was closed, during which time the company would still have been paying employees and other hard costs. Additional costs included hiring third-party experts to help review what the company described as “billions of lines of data and code.”

Pharmacy staff handled urgent patient needs but sent customers to competitors to refill prescriptions because London Drugs’ computer system was not able to verify the existence of prescriptions.

Some of those customers may have discovered that a competitor is just as convenient, potentially causing London Drugs an incalculable amount of lost future sales.

“They have handled it well,” retail analyst and DIG360 owner David Ian Gray told BIV .

“It’s a criminal case. My guess is that it could be a ransom attack and they are not paying, which is why there were delays.”

He said he believes that police likely told London Drugs executives to avoid speaking to media because they might say something that would affect the actions of those behind the cyberattack.

London Drugs is known for strong customer service and that is what will give it a “credit in the bank” in customers’ minds, Gray said.

“I’m not worried about customers thinking ill of the brand, and if anything, you’re going to find that people really rally to support them.”

How retailers can prepare for cyberattacks

Gray said retailers, such as Lui, are wise to have their entire management teams involved in preventing cyberattacks, and to not leave that responsibility entirely to an IT team.

“They need to be collaborators all on the same page,” Gray said of management teams.

“If there’s a new tool, like an augmented-reality app that a company is looking to deploy, [the head of marketing should] be comfortable identifying early on that there could be some vulnerabilities.”

CEOs, Gray said, should also ensure chief technology officers or chief information security officers feel supported.

There is often a lot of turnover within IT teams, he added, and what can help add stability is a management team ensuring that an IT department is respected and taken seriously.

Management teams should also have playbooks for a range of scenarios, including floods, earthquakes and cyberattacks, Gray said.

Detailed plans, with phone numbers outlining the right people to contact, save valuable time in the event of a crisis, he added.

Companies often spend a lot of time training staff to recognize clues that an email is fraudulent and potentially has malicious links.

Cyberattacks can stem from a careless employee clicking on a virus-laden email link, but that is not how most cyberattacks start, according to The State of Ransomware 2024 survey released by Sophos April 30.

Almost all organizations hit by ransomware attacks were able to identify how hackers gained access to company data, the report noted.

Exploited vulnerabilities were the most common cause, and were responsible for 36 per cent of attacks reviewed in the survey.

Other leading causes included compromised credentials (29 per cent), malicious emails (18 per cent), phishing (13 per cent), brute-force attacks (three per cent) and downloads (one per cent.)

“When we say ‘exploited vulnerabilities,’ 90 per cent or more of the time we mean that something that was on the internet to provide remote access to the business was unpatched,” said Sophos’ Vancouver-based director and global field chief technology officer Chester Wisniewski.

“Usually that’s going to be a firewall, or a virtual private network (VPN), or a VPN server, or some sort of remote-access tool, which since the pandemic has become more common.”

He said that often, patches or security upgrades are available for six months to a year but before IT staff upgrade a company’s remote-access server.

“They’re not fixes that came out yesterday morning and then two hours later you are compromised,” he told BIV . “They are often fixes that have been out for months and just haven’t been applied.”

Hackers tend to want to hold companies for ransom, he added, and rarely drill down into the compromised data to try to find specific customers who could be blackmailed.

That should be some relief to London Drugs’ pharmacy customers.

“They’re not going to screw around with you or try to extort you for $500 because you take Viagra,” he said. “They’re thinking, ‘I don’t have time for that. I’ve got another $2 million victim to hack.’”

One possibility is that cybercriminals could sell data to others, who could then tailor their malicious spam emails with personalized information.

It’s more likely that cybercriminals post the information publicly if a retailer does not agree to pay a ransom, Wisniewski said.

If they threaten to publicly reveal data unless a ransom is paid, and then do not follow through, their “credibility” as blackmailers would be shot, he said.

“The result is nobody wants to buy the data,” he said. “All of our data has been leaked so many times, no criminal is going to pay for stolen data because there’s so much stolen data out there. They don’t need to pay for it. It’s already available.”

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Dallas CBP officers seize 22 pounds of ketamine disguised as children's toys at DFW Airport

DALLAS - Several packages containing drugs disguised as children’s toys were seized by law enforcement at DFW Airport.

Dallas U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Thursday that its officers intercepted two shipments from London heading to Miami, Florida.

Inside the packages, officers discovered more than 22 pounds of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic normally used for animals. The drugs were disguised as children’s board games and toys.

"Global criminal networks utilize a wide array of tactics to smuggle dangerous and deadly drugs into the United States, but our CBP officers are highly trained in detecting and stopping these schemes," said Dallas Area Port Director Jayson Ahern. "Our drug interdiction efforts are vital to protecting American communities from the scourge of dangerous and deadly drugs."

Ketamine is a medical-grade anesthetic typically used by veterinarians. Still, it’s often abused by humans due to its hallucinogenic and sedative effects, according to the DEA, and is sometimes used as a ‘date rape’ drug.

People who overdose can become unconscious and dangerously slow breathing.

CBP says its officers typically seize about 3,000 pounds of drugs every day.

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