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Security expert warns Scots over unsecured wifi
2013-08-16 03:58:17| Wireless - Topix.net
James Lyne has been scouring the streets of Edinburgh to test how safe homes, businesses and mobile phones are from rogue hackers.
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UN Security Council proposes regional approach to combat piracy in Gulf of Guinea
2013-08-16 01:00:00| Ship Technology
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has called for a comprehensive regional approach to deal with piracy and armed robbery along the Gulf of Guinea off Africa's west coast.
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Philips Hue LED smart lights hacked, home blacked out by security researcher
2013-08-15 17:45:01| Extremetech
Using a malware script Nitesh Dhanjani hacked into a Hue installation and issued a blackout command through the bridge (the Hue's router) turning the connected lights out entirely. This is essentially the connected home equivalent of a hacker taking over your car, except that Dhanjani actually did it and documented the entire process.
Burkina Faso Farmers Lead the Way on Food Security and Climate Change Resilience
2013-08-15 15:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: If you want to know how to grow crops in the face of climate change, drought, and land degradation, ask Ousséni Kindo, Ousséni Zoromé, or Yacouba Sawadogo--three farmers in Burkina Fasos Yatenga region. Policy makers, researchers, and NGO representatives gathered earlier this year at a workshop in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to discuss strategies on combating food insecurity and adapting to climate change. Attendees at the event--organized by the group Network for Participatory Approaches to Research...
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Researchers propose security that adapts to combat malware that morphs
2013-08-15 14:48:14| InfoWorld: Top News
Attackers launch malware that automatically alters itself to avoid detection, and they constantly create new domains where their command-and-control servers can hide, but researchers have come up with security software that detects the presence of attack code even if it has morphed and tracks down domains that infected client machines report to. A platform called ExecScent can detect C&C traffic and ID the malware family involved or even the specific criminal group behind it, a team of researchers will tell Usenix Security 2013 this week.
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