The backpack arrived in the mail about 3 days ago ? perfect timing for a business day trip I needed to make and a great test of this backpack?s capability. How did it work for me? Great. I love it. But why?Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/5fA4ctj174A/
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A SECRETIVE Chinese military outfit known as Unit 61398 is ?believed to be behind international hacking attacks and the global theft of information, a new report claims.
The unit is said to have stolen hundreds of terabytes of data from at least 141 organisations in 20 industries, US security firm Mandiant reported yesterday.
Unit 61398 is more than 20 similar hacking groups linked to China which pose an ?Advanced Persistent Threat?, said Mandiant. Its report styles Unit 61398 as APT1, one of the ?most prolific cyber espionage groups? and persistent of China?s ?cyber-threat? actors.
While most of the victims of APT1 are US-based, five are said to be based in the UK. Mandiant said that over a seven-year period Unit 61398 has stolen a wide range of intellectual property, including technology blueprints, manufacturing processes, test results, business plans, pricing documents, partnership agreements, e-mails and contact lists.
The report said the group is likely ?government-sponsored? and that it is able to carry out such extensive cyber attacks ?in large part because it receives direct government support?.
Mandiant said it has traced the hackers to a building in the Pudong area of Shanghai, which houses the 2nd Bureau of the People?s Liberation Army General Staff Department?s 3rd Department, known as Unit 61398. The report suggests this is the base for the hacking effort, since the only other option is ?a secret, resourced organisation full of mainland Chinese speakers with direct access to Shanghai-based telecommunications infrastructure engaged in a multi-year, enterprise scale computer espionage campaign right outside of Unit 61398?s gates?.
Mandiant said its report probably only covered a ?small fraction of the cyber espionage that APT1 has conducted?.
The Chinese government denied the allegations as ?groundless?. A foreign ministry spokesman said cyber crime was an international problem and should be solved through co-operation on the basis of mutual trust and respect.
He added that ?groundless criticism is irresponsible and unprofessional and it will not help to solve the problem?. He said the Chinese government objects to the allegations that the cyber attacks originated from a building owned by the PLA.
Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer for Mandiant said he could have ?predicted the exact words the [Chinese] spokesman used?. Responding to China?s claims of hacking by the US, he said: ?Western countries focus activity on legitimate targets of espionage, foreign military and foreign government. Other countries such as China and Russia also focus on private companies,? he said.
He added that one of the dangers of this type of activity was ?the erosion of economic competitiveness? and that stolen information stolen could be passed onto Chinese state companies. He said there was also a risk China could destroy information through hacking.
Recently news organisations including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post reported they had been attacked by hackers. The New York Times said it was hacked after carrying a report about the alleged wealth of the family of outgoing premier Wen Jiabao. Mandiant were hired by the newspaper to investigate. It traced the hacking to China but not to APT1.
Cyber-security firm that rarely seeks publicity
Mandiant is one of a handful of US cyber-security companies that specialise in attempting to detect, prevent and trace advanced hacking attacks, as opposed to the common-or-garden-variety viruses and criminal intrusions that plague corporate networks every day.
Privately owned and little known to the general public, Mandiant does not promote its analysis in public and only rarely issues topical papers about changes in techniques or behaviours. It has never before directly linked hackers to a military branch of the Chinese government, which gives the new report special resonance.
In the report, Mandiant details the attack programmes and dummy websites used to infiltrate US companies, typically via deceptive e-mails.
US officials complained in the past that China sanctioned trade-secret theft, but have had limited evidence. Mandiant said it knew the Chinese military would shift tactics and programmes in response to its report but concluded that the disclosure was worth it because of the scale of the harm and the ability of China to issue denials in the past and duck accountability.
The Mandiant report comes a week after president Barack Obama issued an executive order to get owners of power plants and other critical infrastructure to share data on attacks to improve security.
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The Catholic Education Service (CES) for England and Wales has reiterated concerns that Religious Education will remain relegated among academic subjects, after plans to introduce the English Baccalaureate were scrapped.
Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, had planned to introduce an English Baccalaurate Certificate (EBC) for five core subjects, excluding Religious Education, but it was announced last week that plans for the EBC would not proceed after all.
A statement from the CES said that under new proposals RE would still not be given sufficient importance. It said that the Catholic Education Service was ?disappointed that Religious Education remains effectively relegated to outside the ?core? under these proposals when it is at the very heart of the curriculum in every one of our more than 2,000 schools in England.?
It continued: ?GCSE RE is a valuable and worthwhile subject, but it could be better, and we hope to be able to work with Ofqual and Examination Boards to ensure that it becomes so.?
The statement added: ?We welcome the announcement today by the Secretary of State for Education concerning the reform of qualifications at 16. It is clear that the government?s own consultation regarding examination reform showed broad consensus, accepting the need for reform yet rejecting the initial proposals for that reform. That the Secretary of State proposes to reform exams ?with the help of school and university leaders? is particularly welcome. Working closely with education professionals will help ensure that any reform will enjoy the widest possible support and confidence.?
Source: http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2013/02/religious-education-special-pleading-increases-in-volume/
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By MIKE HUTTON 648-3139 or mhutton@post-trib.com February 18, 2013 10:24PM
SCHEREVILLE ? Ball State football coach Pete Lembo has already spent plenty of time kicking around the idea of exactly how his staff is going to handle the new rules that will go into effect in July for texting and making phone calls to recruits.
It wasn?t a discussion that Lembo really wanted to have.
?We have already started those discussions,? he said. ?There are only so many hours in the day that you and the support staff can focus on recruiting. You can?t focus on it 100 percent of the time.?
The NCAA essentially deregulated the contact period for coaches, allowing them unlimited phone calls and text messages to recruits. The rules now limit contact for all high school students. For instance, a coach can only call a junior prospect in basketball twice a week and he is prohibited from texting them. A coach can now have unlimited contact via telephone or texting starting sophomore year. The idea behind the deregulation is meant to simplify the rule book and let players and their families set guidelines on how a student athlete is recruited.
Lembo, who was in town for the Sportsmanship Banquet at Villa Cesare Banquet Hall in Schereville, said the rule favors the high revenue schools, who will now start to add staff to connect with kids via social media in creative ways.
?The haves ? the programs with $90 million budgets ? are going to budget personnel to on this,? he said. ?The have not?s won?t be able to keep pace.?
For Lembo, the key to recruiting success will be to focus on finding kids that fit the BSU niche.
He targeted kids from winning high school programs that were team captains this year. The Cardinals signed 21 players and 14 of them were team captains. Ten of the kids they signed were from programs that won at least ten games.
Lembo?s biggest concern about the unlimited contacts is for the kids. There are some coaches who will over text and call do anything to get their pitch to a recruit.
Most kids will know not to call back or send a text if they aren?t interested.
Some may not.
?I have some concerns for the student athletes,? he said. ?The student getting called out of class more and getting more phone calls. I think it could have a negative impact on academics for the students and a negative impact for the coaches.?
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Feb. 18, 2013 ? Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection affects about 4 million in the United States and is the primary cause of liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. Current therapy against HCV is suboptimal. Daclatasvir, a direct acting antiviral (DAA) agent in development for the treatment of HCV, targets one of the HCV proteins (i.e., NS5A) and causes the fastest viral decline (within 12 hours of treatment) ever seen with anti-HCV drugs. An interdisciplinary effort by mathematical modelers, clinicians and molecular virologists has revealed that daclatasvir has two main modes of action against HCV and also yields a new, more accurate estimate of the HCV half-life.
Results of the NS5A study are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on February 18th, 2013.
"Ultimately, our study will help design better DAA drug cocktails to treat HCV," said Loyola University Health System (LUHS) and Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM) mathematical modeler Harel Dahari, Ph.D, who co-led the study. Dahari is one of five members of the Division of Hepatology at Loyola headed by Scott Cotler, MD who authored the study along with Thomas Layden, MD, HCV virologist Susan L. Uprichard, Ph.D and Dr. Uprichard's Ph.D graduate student Natasha Sansone. The study was co-led with Jeremie Guedj (Institut National de la Sant? et de la Recherche M?dicale) and conducted with Drs. Alan Perelson (Senior Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory), Libin Rong (Oakland University) and Richard Nettles (Bristol-Myers Squibb).
The new study documents HCV kinetic modeling during treatment both in patients and in cell culture that provides insight into the modes of action of daclatasvir. In addition, the study suggests a more accurate estimate of HCV clearance from circulation previously estimated in 1998 by Drs. Dahari, Layden, Perelson and colleagues in Science.
"Our modeling of viral kinetics in treated patients predicts that daclatasvir not only blocks the synthesis of the viral RNA within infected cells but also blocks the secretion of infectious virus from the cells," explained Dahari. This prediction was confirmed in Dr. Uprichard's laboratory using cultured liver cells that support the entire life cycle of HCV infection. Drs. Dahari and Uprichard are directors of a new program for experimental and translational modeling recently established at Loyola to promote the type of interdisciplinary research exemplified in this publication.
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New Delhi, Feb 18 , 2013 (IANS)
India Monday remained non-committal on whether the alleged corruption in the VVIP chopper deal would be on the agenda for talks with visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron here.
"I have no idea. I have not looked at the agenda. I know what the agenda was a week ago but I don't know if there is a revised agenda," External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.
"I would think one prepared the agenda much in advance. You cannot take any visiting dignitary by surprise. There are many levels at which these investigations are taking place. It is only in due course that it reaches the highest level. I am not sure of the agenda," he said.
Cameron arrived in India Monday on a three-day visit.On the investigations into the alleged scam, Khurshid said: "Even now we are not being able to get concrete material from the Italians on where matter has proceeded and arrests have been made."
"They (Italian government) haven't indicated anything and according to their rules, they cannot share anything with us. It is a little premature to jump to conclusions on what we can get and from where," he added.
"We have sent teams to Italy. They will return with information which we can analyse and comment on," he said.
The CBI is probing allegations of kickbacks in the $750 million (Rs.3,600 crore) deal for 12 AgustaWestland AW101 choppers from Italy for the Indian Air Force's elite Communication Squadron, which ferries the president, the prime minister and other VVIPs.
The defence ministry Friday initiated action for cancellation of the contract. It also issued a formal show cause notice to AgustaWestland, a Britain-based subsidiary of Italian firm Finmeccanica.
AgustaWestland has been given a week to explain why the contract should not be cancelled.
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One of the amazing things about technology is that it opens the doors to things for less fortunate folks that many of us take for granted. Being able to sit down and read a good book is something that we do on a daily basis, but never think about all of the people out there who don't have that luxury. With sites like Amazon, we have a seemingly infinite number of choices on what we'd like to read, but a child in Africa may never have that luxury.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/1W5Voh9m4MA/
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