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Computer Security News

• Computer Security Breach at ULM
  ULM officials have notified 121 individuals their personal information may have been compromised. […]
• Be prepared for a hacker attack
  A few days back, while I was trying to access www.vimeo.com, a video sharing site similar to YouTube, I kept getting an error message stating, 'The access to this website is denied'. Being an IT guy, I investigated the issue and realised that the problem was not at my end, but at my ISP's Reliance. […]
• UK government staff caught snooping on citizen data
  Don't worry about hackers illegally accessing government systems. It turns out government workers and civil servants who are trusted with private citizen data are more likely to access your data illegally. […]
• social network makes stock market debut – live blog
  Zuckerberg appears to confirm in one message that he secretly hacked into the website of the Harvard University newspaper, the Crimson, by guessing the emails and passwords of two people in the college database."So I want to read what they said about me before the article came out and after I complained," he told a friend. […]
• Police Blotter: Phone Hacker Makes Overseas Calls
  ALCOHOL Sungjoon Um, 22, of the 20800 block of Elizabeth Avenue, Lincolnshire, was charged with driving under the influence and speeding at 2:25 a.m. May 17 on westbound Lake-Cook Road from Milwaukee Avenue. […]
• Who Did the WikiLeaks DDoS Attack?
  Free Email Newsletters Sign Up for free email updates from PCMag: Daily news, new products, security, deals, DIY, and more Whistleblowing site Wikileaks is up and running again after a massive DDoS attack knocked it offline for three days. […]
• Android Hackers Hone Their Skills in Russia
  The malware business growing around Google Android -- now the leading smartphone operating system -- is still in its infancy . […]
• Mac-based Flashback click fraud campaign was a bust
  The hackers in charge of the Flashback botnet managed to generate $14,000 from their click fraud campaign, but have not been paid, Symantec said today. […]
• House Intel Chairman Predicts Major Cyber Attack on US
  Cadets engaged during the annual Cyber Defense Exercise at West Point. Established in 2001 by West Point in collaboration and support from the National Security Agency the exercise challenges each team to design, build and configure a real-world computer network and simulates a deployed joint service command. […]
• Hacker steals card details with Call of Duty virus
  Hacker Lewys Martin, 20, offered a "patch" to users of the popular video game Call Of Duty - but secretly hid a trojan horse virus inside. […]

‘State govt should monitor Radio Free Sarawak

Posted on May 19, 2012, Saturday

’THE state government should monitor activities by Radio Free Sarawak, a pro opposition independent radio station known to manipulate facts for the opposition’s political mileage in the upcoming general election.

According to Balai Ringin assemblyman Snowdan Lawan, all programmes aired by the station were filled with political agenda to tarnish the image of the state government.

“Recently, the Information Department said it was difficult for the state government facing a hurdle in taking action against the radio station but the department can provide factual information to counter the allegations and issues raised by the station,” said Snowdan.

He elaborated that the station’s programmes were filled with accusations and immediate action should be taken against the radio.

Earlier on, Snowdan had raised the issue of basic facilities including road, electricity and water supply in his constituency, which was still the main issue among the people of Balai Ringin.

“The road connecting Simunjan from Spaoh junction to Punda junction is in dire need of attention. I was informed that Public Works Department is in process of repairing the road at a cost of RM6.6 million as stated by Infrastructure Development and Communications Minister Datuk Seri Micheal Manyin,” he added.

On a related matter, he urged the relevant authorities to come up with a strategic patrolling programme to ensure damage caused by overloaded lorries could be repaired as soon as it occur.

“This can help prevent potholes as they are dangerous to road users as they expose them to accidents,” he said.

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Article source: http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/05/19/state-govt-should-monitor-radio-free-sarawak/

Editorial Feature: The Christian Science Monitor Applies for BPA Consumer Membership

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The Monitor: Man charged with simple assault

Pennsylvania State Police charged Neil A. Boxler, 32, no address listed, with simple assault and he was taken to Franklin County Jail after a fight with his girlfriend at 5:17 a.m. Monday at 6139 Lincoln Way East.

Article source: http://www.therecordherald.com/news/x2047357844/The-Monitor-Man-charged-with-simple-assault

New arrangement allows police to monitor security cameras at apartments 24/7

(KMOV.com) — Some apartment complexes are taking surveillance cameras to the next level.  Police can now access cameras to monitor activity, 24 hours a day, from their precinct.

Countryside Apartments in unincorporated north St. Louis County set up more than 50 outdoor cameras on its property. Capt. Troy Doyle, commander of the county’s north precinct, said his department is able to use the cameras to monitor almost every location on the property.

“Someone here at the station can pull up that particular camera and can radio to the officer, ‘Hey this guy is standing her. He’s wearing blue jeans and a white shirt, and he has a handgun in his possession,” Doyle said. “Crime can happen anywhere. We want to have that added advantage.”

Property owners and police collaborated on the arrangement, Doyle said. Police are working with a handful of other complexes in unincorporated north St. Louis County. Another complex in the area expects to have cameras installed by the end of the month.

The property owners purchase the cameras, he said.

Doyle says access to live surveillance video allows police to zero in on the biggest crime trends in the St. Louis area. Daytime burglaries and larceny are the top concerns.

He said the number of reported burglaries at apartment complexes have dropped in the past year, in large part due to stepped up foot patrols. He believes cameras will serve as an extra tool to keep neighborhoods safe.

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Article source: http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Increase-in-daytime-burglaries--151981265.html

Monitor Nursing Schools, CHEd Told

MANILA, Philippines – President Benigno S. Aquino III Thursday directed the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) to resolve the “two tragedies” of the nursing program – schools with low passing rate in licensure exams and the lack of jobs available after graduation.

At the 18th anniversary rites of CHEd in Quezon City, the President said the commission must closely monitor nursing schools particularly those with dwindling quality of education.

“To protect the students and their parents from these ways, I have ordered CHEd to monitor the schools with low passing rate in different courses such as nursing licensure exam as well as those with poor programs,” Aquino said.

He said the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE), Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), CHEd and Department of Education are also working together to ensure vacant jobs are filled by graduates with the necessary skills.

At the start of his speech, the President lamented that many students have enrolled in nursing courses hoping to uplift the conditions of their family but not all succeed. A nursing student spends P60,000 every year in school, excluding expenses in books, allowance, and review fees.

Aquino said the first tragedy is that more than 80 nursing schools have 30 percent or lower passing rate in licensure exams.

He said there was an influx of nursing schools where students hardly learn anything, adding that these institutions just charge parents with high tuition fees.

The second tragedy, Aquino said, is the insufficient jobs available for nursing graduates. “After studying for four years and getting a nursing license, they have no work because the market is already full,” he said.

Citing information from the labor department, Aquino said there are 130,000 jobs available on the government website, Phil-JobNet, but only 80,000 are filled. He said 50,000 jobs are left vacant due to the mismatch in the skills of applicants.

To improve the quality of education in the country, the President said the government has raised the education budget from P207.3 billion in 2011 to P238.8 billion in 2012.

He said state universities and colleges have received an additional P4.2 billion to upgrade their facilities and provide scholarships to indigent students.

He said the government will also implement a new law that requires five-year-olds to take up a kindergarten course in preparation for entry to Grade 1.

Article source: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/monitor-nursing-schools-ched-told-133237101.html

Drought Monitor – May 17th

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Each week the United States Department of Agriculture releases a U.S. drought monitor update, basically a progress report of the drought situation.  This week… good news!  The rain over the past few weeks has help parts of Eastern Virginia and North Carolina in a big way.

The drought monitor uses several categories labeled D0 to D4…

D0 – Abnormally Dry

D1 – Moderate Drought

D2 – Severe Drought

D3 – Extreme Drought

D4 – Exceptional Drought

Here are the stats as of May 17th, 2012… Virginia: 54% in D0. North Carolina: 71% in D0, 23% in D1. 

Last week… Virginia: 61% in D0, 10% in D1. North Carolina: 84% in D0, 64% in D1.

I know that all of this rain has put a damper on a lot of outdoor plans but this is the good result. We still have some catching up to do but for mid May our drought situation is looking okay.

Article source: http://wtkr.com/2012/05/17/drought-monitor-may-17th-2/

Researchers to monitor UCLA , high school athletes in NCAA -funded study on concussions

In 1948, more than 5,000 residents of Framingham, Mass., enrolled in a long-term study on heart disease, consenting to be monitored throughout their lives.

Many of the now widely accepted risk factors for cardiovascular disease such as smoking and obesity were first identified in the Framingham Heart Study.

A similar long-term study focusing on sports-related concussions is a project envisioned by Dr. Christopher Giza, an assistant professor of pediatric neurology and neuroscience.

The study, which would follow athletes in various sports through high school, college and eventually professional leagues, could provide valuable answers about the long-term consequences of repeated concussions and multiple impacts.

The NCAA showed its support for the ambitious project in early April, awarding a $400,000 grant to the National Sport Concussion Outcomes Study Consortium, which consists of researchers from UCLA’s Brain Injury Research Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University Michigan and the Medical College of Wisconsin. All the universities involved in the consortium are large public institutions with elite athletic programs. The study will start in the summer.

The grant will provide funding to monitor consenting UCLA athletes throughout their collegiate careers. Researchers from Chapel Hill and Wisconsin will monitor players from local high schools.

Giza, the study’s lead investigator at UCLA, plans to apply for additional grants from the NFL and the National Institutes of Health to continue monitoring select athletes throughout their respective professional careers.

“What are the lasting effects of concussions? … What if you don’t have a concussion or symptoms, and you are still out there getting hit? Does that add up in some way?” Giza said, listing questions that he hopes a long-term study may answer.

The NCAA grant gives the consortium an opportunity to monitor a large sample size of athletes from different sports over four years and to compile the results into a database.

Baseline data will first be collected for all UCLA athletes enrolled in the study, using protocols such as cognitive testing, neurological and balance exams and taking medical histories. These evaluations are similar to the preseason tests the UCLA sports medicine department performs on every athlete in the fall.

Since previous research has found a strong link between concussions and impaired cognitive function, computerized tests will evaluate a player’s cognitive ability after sustaining a concussion.

“They test attention, attention span, which is also working memory, and visual and verbal skills,” said Talin Babikian, the neuropsychologist who will monitor the protocols that measure cognitive testing for the NCAA grant study.

In addition to the tests, the NCAA grant provides funding for mouthguard accelerometers, cutting-edge devices that record how many times a player feels an impact, the direction and force with which they are hit and the time of the collision.

The sophisticated mouthguards would allow athletes in many different sports to participate in the study, and are slated for a summer release by Seattle-based developer X2Impact.

Previously, concussion data could only be measured with accelerometers placed in helmets, limiting brain injury studies to helmeted, high-contact sports such as football, lacrosse and hockey.

Giza is especially excited about the opportunity to compare concussion data between sports such as basketball and soccer in which men and women tend to have similar amounts of exposure to impact.

“The only way you can actually study the difference between men and women is to use non-helmet-based accelerometers,” he said of comparing concussion rates between men and women.

Preliminary studies suggest that although concussions are more common in male athletes, female athletes may have a higher concussion rate.

Continually monitoring players will allow researchers to evaluate whether intermediate cognitive impairment can occur without concussions and simply through participation in contact sports.

“There has to be an amount of force that the head has to be exposed to before the brain begins to show a concussion. As the force increases, all of a sudden you have an absolute response, and then you get a concussion,” said David Hovda, director of the Brain Injury Research Center.

“One of the things this study is going to help us do is to determine whether that happens a lot and if there is such a thing as a sub-concussive blow that we don’t know about.”

As evidence demonstrating that repeated concussions and sub-concussions lead to long-term repercussions such as impaired cognitive ability, behavioral changes and possibly degenerative neurological disease increases, some scientists believe contact sports should be banned for children younger than 14 or 15.

Hovda, who played football and basketball in high school and a year of collegiate golf at the University of New Mexico, believes that advocating in favor of eliminating contact sports is unreasonable and premature.

“Before we start getting hysterical about everything and claim that we need to ban sports, we need to first figure out what type of problem we have, because organized sports play a huge role in our society,” said Hovda, a sports fan who said he wished he had been talented enough to have played collegiate football or basketball.

Before choosing to make any widespread claims on banning or limiting contact sports, Giza cautions about the importance of putting the issue into perspective.

The number of people at risk for obesity easily outweighs the likelihood of developing a degenerative disease such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Contact sports play an important role in motivating children to exercise.

“You don’t have to play contact sports, but you have to do some type of sport, and most have some type of risk. There are a lot of physical benefits from participating in those activities,” Giza said.

Article source: http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2012/05/researchers_to_monitor_ucla_high_school_athletes_in_ncaafunded_study_on_concussions

Introducing The Monitor, Wired’s New Video Series About Pop Culture

Every so often, a person comes along who combines an insatiable pop culture appetite and a totally baseless sense of his own importance. Not only has that happened, but for some reason Wired saw fit to give him his own weekly podcast. Allow us to introduce The Monitor, a new video series in which senior editor Peter Rubin sits in front of a giant fake bookshelf and talk about his favorite releases of the week.

Movies, TV, videogames, music, comic books, books with words but no pictures, newspapers, commercials in which household pets appear to be rapping and driving cars — anything’s fair game. But especially the commercials with rapping animals.

This week in The Monitor‘s inaugural edition, Rubin takes a look at a comic book written by sci-fi novelist China Miéville, devotes a little bullet time to Rockstar Games’ newest release (Max Payne 3) and turns in a haiku review of Dark Shadows. (Unless if by “review” you mean “nuanced critical assessments of a work’s triumphs and flaws.” Because really, how much can you do in 17 syllables?)

So take the less-than-three minutes you were going to devote to downvoting a YouTube video and give The Monitor a shot. There’s magic in it!

Article source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/05/the-monitor-culture-video-series/

Officials Monitor Roads Amid Smoke, Fire Concerns

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