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A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials, including 1.2 billion user name and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses, security researchers say.
The records, discovered by Hold Security, a firm in Milwaukee, include confidential material gathered from 420,000 websites, including household names, and small Internet sites. Hold Security has a history of uncovering significant hacks, including the theft last year of tens of millions of records from Adobe Systems.
Hold Security would not name the victims, citing nondisclosure agreements and a reluctance to name companies whose sites remained vulnerable. At the request of The New York Times, a security expert not affiliated with Hold Security analyzed the database of stolen credentials and confirmed it was authentic. Another computer crime expert who had reviewed the data, but was not allowed to discuss it publicly, said some big companies were aware that their records were among the stolen information.
Mr. Holden, who is paid to consult on the security of corporate websites, decided to make details of the attack public this week to coincide with discussions at an industry conference and to let the many small sites he will not be able to contact know that they should look into the problem.
There is worry among some in the security community that keeping personal information out of the hands of thieves is increasingly a losing battle. In December, 40 million credit card numbers and 70 million addresses, phone numbers and additional pieces of personal information were stolen from the retail giant Target by hackers in Eastern Europe.
And in October, federal prosecutors said an identity theft service in Vietnam managed to obtain as many as 200 million personal records, including Social Security numbers, credit card data and bank account information from Court Ventures, a company now owned by the data brokerage firm Experian.
But the discovery by Hold Security dwarfs those incidents, and the size of the latest discovery has prompted security experts to call for improved identity protection on the web.
Websites inside Russia had been hacked, too, and Mr. Holden said he saw no connection between the hackers and the Russian government. He said he planned to alert law enforcement after making the research public, though the Russian government has not historically pursued accused hackers.
So far, the criminals have not sold many of the records online. Instead, they appear to be using the stolen information to send spam on social networks like Twitter at the behest of other groups, collecting fees for their work.
But selling more of the records on the black market would be lucrative.
While a credit card can be easily canceled, personal credentials like an email address, Social Security number or password can be used for identity theft. Because people tend to use the same passwords for different sites, criminals test stolen credentials on websites where valuable information can be gleaned, like those of banks and brokerage firms.
Like other computer security consulting firms, Hold Security has contacts in the criminal hacking community and has been monitoring and even communicating with this particular group for some time.
The hacking ring is based in a small city in south central Russia, the region flanked by Kazakhstan and Mongolia. The group includes fewer than a dozen men in their 20s who know one another personally — not just virtually. Their computer servers are thought to be in Russia.
They began as amateur spammers in 2011, buying stolen databases of personal information on the black market. But in April, the group accelerated its activity. Mr. Holden surmised they partnered with another entity, whom he has not identified, that may have shared hacking techniques and tools.
For people worried about identity theft and privacy, the discovery by Hold Security of a giant database of stolen data is highly personal. But there are steps everyone can take to minimize the hackers’ impact.
Since then, the Russian hackers have been able to capture credentials on a mass scale using botnets — networks of zombie computers that have been infected with a computer virus — to do their bidding. Any time an infected user visits a website, criminals command the botnet to test that website to see if it is vulnerable to a well-known hacking technique known as an SQL injection, in which a hacker enters commands that cause a database to produce its contents. If the website proves vulnerable, criminals flag the site and return later to extract the full contents of the database.
“They audited the Internet,” Mr. Holden said. It was not clear, however, how computers were infected with the botnet in the first place.
By July, criminals were able to collect 4.5 billion records — each a user name and password — though many overlapped. After sorting through the data, Hold Security found that 1.2 billion of those records were unique. Because people tend to use multiple emails, they filtered further and found that the criminals’ database included about 542 million unique email addresses.
“Most of these sites are still vulnerable,” said Mr. Holden, emphasizing that the hackers continue to exploit the vulnerability and collect data.
Mr. Holden said his team had begun alerting victimized companies to the breaches, but had been unable to reach every website. He said his firm was also trying to come up with an online tool that would allow individuals to securely test for their information in the database.
The disclosure comes as hackers and security companies gathered in Las Vegas for the annual Black Hat security conference this week. The event, which began as a small hacker convention in 1997, now attracts thousands of security vendors peddling the latest and greatest in security technologies. At the conference, security firms often release research — to land new business, discuss with colleagues or simply for bragging rights.
Yet for all the new security mousetraps, data security breaches have only gotten larger, more frequent and more costly. The average total cost of a data breach to a company increased 15 percent this year from last year, to $3.5 million per breach, from $3.1 million, according to a joint study last May, published by the Ponemon Institute, an independent research group, and IBM.
Last February, Mr. Holden also uncovered a database of 360 million records for sale, which were collected from multiple companies.
Nicole Perlroth reported from San Francisco and David Gelles from New York City.
El Segundo >> After several hours of heated debate, the City Council late Tuesday narrowly approved plans by TopGolf to enlarge and transform the driving range at The Lakes golf course into a high-tech, entertainment-oriented experience.
During a meeting that lasted past midnight and featured dozens of speakers on both sides of the issue, the council voted 3-2 on the project proposed by TopGolf and CenterCal Properties. Fisher and Council members Dave Atkinson and Marie Fellhauer voted for the plan and Council members Carl Jacobson and Suzanne Fuentes voted no.
Council members have been negotiating a lease with Dallas-based TopGolf since August 2012 to update the driving range at The Lakes at El Segundo golf course by incorporating microchipped golf balls and targets that tally golfers’ scores.
Renovation of the city-owned course would nearly double driving range tees, from 54 to 102, spread over three levels in the TopGolf facility. Plans also call for absorbing the golf course’s first hole to make room for 200 additional parking spots. Developers also have suggested altering holes four and nine and building a new pro shop on the grounds. The work would cost an estimated $20 million.
Residents have expressed concern about the project in recent months, with many saying they didn’t want to lose their traditional golf course to an entertainment-oriented facility. They also worried that the facility would attract a party-going crowd and would not be family-friendly.
At the council meeting, TopGolf chief development officer Randy Starr assured an overflow crowd that the majority of TopGolf’s patrons are families, including mothers and children. He also emphasized various improvements to the golf course that could potentially qualify it for the U.S. Golf Association Course/Slope rating, which is necessary to host a Type I golf club.
Members of the audience repeatedly questioned TopGolf’s ability to provide practice space for local golf teams, including both private and public schools, expressing concern that youth programs would no longer have space to practice.
Even after the decision was made, audience members voiced concerns about such issues as the length of the lease, which could potentially be up to 50 years, and whether the council did enough research on TopGolf’s claims. In response, council members took more time addressing those concerns, clarifying numerical data and reiterating parts of the lease agreement.
Caitlin Scanlan, a resident of El Segundo, told council members her experiences were positive when she visited a TopGolf facility in Texas when she attended college. She said it was a great atmosphere for her friends and family, and she believes many of the rumors circulating about Top Golf in El Segundo are unfounded.
Due diligence of the project is expected to be completed by December 2014. That phase will include the approval of conceptual design plans for the golf course and the driving range, a California Environmental Quality Act analysis of the proposal to make sure environmental standards are up to par, and settling various land-use issues.
TopGolf officials said the improvements will create hundreds of jobs in El Segundo — from construction to operations of the range.
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Marcus Dempsey, 43, was arrested on Monday after slapping a youth football player who injured his son on a tackle, police said.
An Alabama dentist was arrested Monday for allegedly slapping a youth football player who injured his son during a tackle last month.
Marcus Dempsey, of Northport, Ala., was charged with harassment, AL.com reported. He was released on a $300 bond.
The 43-year-old was working on the chain crew during the youth football game on Sunday. Police said the tackle occurred on Oct.4 and Dempsey walked onto the field and slapped a player who injured his son, the paper reported, citing an investigation by the Tuscaloosa police’s Juvenile Division.
Jay Stuck, an attorney representing Dempsey, denied the allegations and told the paper "we are confident that once the facts are heard and examined by neutral parties his innocence will be clear to all involved."
"We eagerly await his day in court to address these allegations as laid out by the Tuscaloosa Police Department," Stuck said. "We are confident that once the facts are heard and examined by neutral parties, his innocence will be clear to all involved. As his attorney, I would hope the media will report that determination with the same zeal and speed in which they have reported this current matter."
GETTING lost in Venice is all part of the charm, writes Natalie Gregg, after a drink with the locals reveals some of the romantic Italian city's best-kept secrets.
I'M LOST. But I'm in Venice and that's all that matters. After much map-turning and bridge-crossing, wandering about arguably Italy's most romantic city, I admit defeat. The warm glow of a nearby wine bar beckons.
"Bianco or rosso?" asks the handsome barman. Taking a seat at the bar, I accept his choice of a Casale del Giglio Shiraz from Lazio. I strike up a conversation with the barman and his two affable friends sitting adjacent. After a day spent exploring the streets, canals and bridges of Venice, lost in my own thoughts, the opportunity to practise my very basic Italian is welcome. I ask what it's like to be a Venetian – a resident in a city flooded by tourists. The two locals say they don't mind the tourists, and that knowing Venice intimately, they understand why it holds such fascination for outsiders. Draining my glass, I'm about to head back to my hotel, when the two locals offer to take me to a few local drinking spots. So Giorgio, an art administrator on the Island of Murano, the home of the Venetian glass-blowers, and Christof, a mosaic floor tiler, lead the way through cobbled streets, across bridges and down narrow alleyways. Along the way, we pick up some more people, including a Madrid-based photographer and an apprentice gondolier. Turning a corner, we find ourselves outside a tiny bar, known in Italy as an "osteria". The tiny wooden interior is bursting with people drinking out of small tumblers. We continue, reaching a busy square, which is the fresh fish market by day, and by night a social spot for young Venetians, who order at the bar and customarily stand out in the street with their drinks. This is encouraged by Italy's strict smoking regulations and, regardless, many osterias rarely have enough room for patrons inside. There is not a camera-wielding, sneaker-wearing, bum-bag-sporting tourist in sight. True to the generous Italian nature, at many osterias and in similar aperitif bars there is a selection of nibbles at the bar, which go beyond meagre chips or peanuts. Usually olives, dips, crostini, bruschetta, even small slices of pizza, cheese or salami are customary. It's the antithesis of the overpriced touristy restaurants in the streets surrounding Venice's impressive main square, Piazza San Marco. After sampling a sufficient quantity of local wine, I bid goodbye to my impromptu guides to recharge for the following day. While it may be the chief destination for tourists, Piazza San Marco still captivates and its immense size means it easily supports the crowds and the pigeons. At one end is the Gothic/medieval fairytale-style Basilica of San Marco, which bears intricate colourful mosaics on the facade outside and adorn the ceilings within. It is best glimpsed in the afternoon with the setting sun reflecting off the tiny gold tiles. Sampling local seafood is a must when visiting a city built on water. I eat at a simple trattoria, with wooden interior and paper place mats. The prices are reasonable and the food authentic and delicious. My first course is cinghiale del mare (wild pig of the sea), which is a dish of small white prawns, followed by a hearty Venetian fish broth served with hunks of fish and crusty white bread all washed down with white wine and an espresso. Venice is a magical city. The initial feeling you are experiencing something unique is the train ride as you cross the lagoon to Venice, with water stretching out in both directions. Then as you exit the main station, the majesty hits you, waterbuses chug past old buildings, palaces, museums and simple apartment blocks rising out of the canals. To complete the scene, a tanned Italian man cruises past in a '70s-style wooden speedboat, one hand at the wheel the other holding a piece of paper giving him directions. Even in winter, the low season to visit Venice, a cavalcade of tourists descend on the relatively small city. But what makes Venice so special is the opportunity to escape the crowds. Even without a couple of residents to show me some of the city's secrets, I was able to discover a few of my own. Just ducking down a small side street, it's possible to find yourself sitting alone on one of the city's 400 bridges, the afternoon sun reflecting off the water as a lone gondolier cruises past on one of the city's 177 canals. Yes, Venice is hopelessly romantic, but in a city that gave birth to Casanova, a little saccharine romanticism must be embraced. If you have more than a day, visit the island of Murano. In 1291, the Venetian Republic commanded glassmakers to shift to Murano because their glass workshops put at risk the wooden houses of Venice. At the time, the Venetian glassmakers were the only people in Europe who knew how to make a mirror. And they were also the creators of various glass techniques such as "smalto", which is glass with threads of gold. To this day the island remains a major producer of glass wares to the world. 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AmpliPhi Biosciences Corporation (NYSE American: APHB), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on precisely targeted bacteriophage therapeutics for antibiotic-resistant infections, today announced a collaboration with the Western Sydney Local Health District and the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, based in Sydney, Australia. The agreement covers compassionate use treatment of patients with severe Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections with AmpliPhi's investigational bacteriophage therapeutics AB-SA01 and AB-PA01.
To date, several critically ill patients have received AB-SA01 or AB-PA01 at the Westmead Hospital, under the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration's Special Access Scheme guidelines. In January, AmpliPhi announced positive interim results from the first patients treated under its single-patient expanded access program, including patients treated at the Westmead Hospital. This new agreement will expand and is expected to accelerate the collaboration to supply AB-SA01 and AB-PA01 for additional patients with serious and life-threatening infections, who do not respond to antibiotics, while collecting clinical and microbiological data.
"I'm delighted to expand the partnership with AmpliPhi and make these investigational bacteriophage treatments available for critically ill patients who have few or no other treatment options," said Dr. Jonathan Iredell, Senior Staff Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist at the Westmead Hospital, Professor of Medicine and Microbiology at the University of Sydney and Westmead Institute of Medical Research, and the Principal Investigator. "The promising clinical results I have observed to-date support the potential of bacteriophage therapeutics to be a safe and potent adjunct treatment for serious bacterial infections."
"We are pleased to strengthen the relationship with our partners at the Westmead in Sydney, who have had a major role in our expanded access program, and administered AmpliPhi's potentially life-saving treatments to seriously ill patients," added Paul C. Grint, M.D., CEO of AmpliPhi Biosciences. "AmpliPhi's objective is to bring the data collected under our expanded access approach to the FDA in mid-2018, obtain feedback on the path to regulatory approval, and potentially initiate a Phase 2 or registrational clinical study as early as the second half of 2018."
AmpliPhi Biosciences Corporation is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on treating antibiotic-resistant infections using its proprietary bacteriophage-based technology. AmpliPhi's lead product candidates, AB-SA01 and AB-PA01, target multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which are included on the WHO's 2017 Priority Pathogens List. Phage therapeutics are uniquely positioned to address the threat of antibiotic-resistance as they can be precisely targeted to kill select bacteria, have a differentiated mechanism of action, can penetrate and disrupt biofilms (a common bacterial defense mechanism against antibiotics), are potentially synergistic with antibiotics and have been shown to restore antibiotic sensitivity to drug-resistant bacteria. For more information visit www.ampliphibio.com.
Statements in this press release that are not statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding: the agreement with Western Sydney Local Health District and the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, including the expected acceleration of the collaboration to supply AB-SA01 and AB-PA01 for additional patients with serious and life-threatening infections; AmpliPhi's plan to present data from expanded access clinical cases to the FDA in mid-2018, obtain feedback on the path to regulatory approval, and potentially initiate a Phase 2 or registrational clinical study as early as the second half of 2018; and the potential benefits of phage therapy and the potential use of bacteriophages to treat bacterial infections, including infections that do not respond to antibiotics or are associated with biofilms. Words such as "believe," "anticipate," "plan," "expect," "intend," "will," "may," "goal," "potential" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, though not all forward-looking statements necessarily contain these identifying words. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in these forward-looking statements are risks and uncertainties associated with bacteriophage product candidate development, both generally and specifically through expanded access regulations, AmpliPhi's financial condition, and other risks and uncertainties described in AmpliPhi's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and AmpliPhi's subsequent filings with the SEC. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and AmpliPhi undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release.
June 12, 2017 1:09 P.M.
Ontario is stepping up its fight against the national opioid crisis with new front-line addiction and mental health workers for every community in the province and the distribution of almost 80,000 additional naloxone kits per year to front-line organizations.
Dr. Eric Hoskins, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, was joined by John Tory, Mayor of Toronto at The Works Needle Exchange Program in Toronto today to announce new measures to tackle Ontario's opioid crisis.
The province is providing funding for every board of health in Ontario to hire more front-line workers, such as addiction outreach workers and nurses, to help municipalities expand supports for people impacted by opioid addiction and overdose. This will allow communities to improve addiction outreach, education and planning while working on early warning and surveillance of opioid overdoses.
More than 6,500 additional naloxone kits per month will be distributed in the community to those at risk of opioid overdose and their friends and family, through community organizations such as shelters, outreach organizations, AIDS Service Organizations, Community Health Centres and withdrawal management programs. This will broaden the reach of existing harm reduction programs that are currently offered by Public Health Units and community partners.
Later today, Dr. Eric Hoskins, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, Marie-France Lalonde, Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services, John Fraser, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care and Sophie Kiwala, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Children and Youth Services will be meeting with mayors from across the province to discuss the unique experiences of individual communities dealing with opioid addiction and overdose and to continue working together to address this important issue.
Ontario is expanding the distribution of naloxone to the places where people who use drugs are living or currently accessing services. Local public health units will serve as naloxone distribution hubs for eligible community organizations.
Ontario’s first comprehensive Strategy to Prevent Opioid Addiction and Overdose includes initiatives to enhance data collection, modernize prescribing and dispensing practices and connect patients with high quality addiction treatment services.
Recently announced initiatives include: a new Interactive Opioid Tool that provides a wide range of data on opioid-related morbidity and mortality across the province; stricter controls on the prescribing and dispensing of opioids, including fentanyl patches and expanding access to opioid substitution therapy; and funding for three supervised injection services sites in Toronto, and committing to provide funding for an additional site in Ottawa.
As of March 2017, more than 28,000 naloxone kits have been dispensed free of charge at pharmacies, public health units and community-based organizations that run needle exchange and hepatitis C programs, as well as provincial correctional facilities.
Minister Hoskins speaking at a podium.
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Anyone familiar with the workings of current smartphones has probably heard the terms “3G” or “4G” thrown around. To the uninitiated, it denotes the speed at which mobile devices can transfer data wirelessly. 3G is considered the “third generation” of wireless data transfer technology, and 4G refers to the fourth generation. These “generations” are characterized by a standardized transfer speed, with 3G clocking in at 200 kilobits per second (equivalent of 25 kilobytes) at a minimum and 4G’s lower limit set at 10 megabits (or 1.25 megabytes) per second, reaching up to 100Mb/s at its peak. To put this into perspective, an average CD is about 100 megabytes, and the average movie is about a gigabyte, or 1024 megabytes.
Enter Samsung’s new 5G technologies. Recently, the company announced that it has achieved transmission speeds of over 1 gigabit per second over a two-kilometer radius. That’s 128 megabytes per second. To make a comparison, download speeds handled by Cox Communications in Isla Vista will rarely exceed 4 megabytes per second.
A speed test with results like these does not come around very often, and as Sean Buckley of Engadget reports, Samsung would new a few new toys and significantly more research time in order to make these speeds a consistent reality.
“The company apparently needed 64 antenna elements to pull the trick off,” he writes, “but says the technology will be available to customers by 2020—matching the European Commission’s goal quite nicely.” What Buckley refers to here is the EC’s investment of €50 million (or just over $65 million) into research that is meant to bring usable 5G technologies to consumers by the beginning of the new decade.
The seven years of development still needed would be focused around tasks such as creating the standards for 5G transfer speeds and creating technologies that can effectively use more high-powered frequencies to transfer data between devices. As Charles Arthur of The Guardian explains, “The transmissions used in the test were made at the ultra-high 28GHz frequency, which offers far more bandwidth than the 800MHz frequencies used for some 4G networks in the UK and elsewhere. High frequencies can carry more data, but have the disadvantage that they generally can be blocked by buildings and lose intensity over longer distances.” Before 5G could be feasible in a city characterized by large distances and tall buildings like, say, any major city in the world, there are still some sizeable developments that need to be made.
So what does this mean for the wireless communication market? For one thing, this new 5G research positions Samsung as an important competitor within the consumer electronic space within the next few years. Nigam Arora of Forbes writes, “Samsung is not the only one working on 5G. But it is important to note that Samsung has already successfully countered Apple in the global patent war with some of its patents on transmission technologies. The farther ahead Samsung gets in terms of important patents on new data transmission technologies that may someday become the core of 5G; the more troubling it will be for Apple.” If Samsung can become a leader in these important transmission technologies, there may be a significant power shift in the industry. A consistent revenue stream set up by patents could be instrumental for Samsung’s ability to innovate with other technologies such as the mobile devices themselves, much like Apple has in the past with their iPhone.
While 5G may be almost a full decade away, it is now an important topic for consumer electronic companies to address. With the incredible speeds promised by 5G, it’s no wonder that everyone from Apple to the European Union is now researching the best ways to utilize these new technologies, as the first party to reach a breakthrough may be set up for large revenue streams and a much larger market share. Consumers rejoice; you may be only a few short years away from downloading a full movie onto your phone in less than a minute.
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