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Browsing Security Predictions for 2013
The period between November and December is particularly interesting for the Infosec community, since nearly all the main security vendors use to unveil their predictions for the next year, trying to anticipate the trends and the issues that will trouble the system administrators' sleeps.
Exactly as I did last year, I analyzed the predictions of 7 vendors, choosing the ones that I consider particularly meaningful for the presence of the vendor in the market and for the coverage of their respective solution portfolio. In comparison with the last year, I was not able to find any prediction from Cisco (at least so far). However I was able to include the ones issued by Symantec, that were missing from my initial version. Hence the list of the vendors taken into consideration is the following:
Nearly all the analyzed vendors went through deep transformations during the past year, reflecting the changing trends in the market. Fortinet is considered a vendor focused on UTM Technologies, although it offers a wide portfolio of solutions ranging from endpoint to WAFs. After the acquisition of Astaro, Sophos is expanding its offering from the endpoints to the UTM segment. McAfee covers a wide area: historically focused on the endpoints, the long trail of acquisitions allows the company to be present in all the segments of the security market. Websense went through its historical flagship, the URL filtering, moving its security model to the endpoint. Symantec and Trend Micro have their foundation on the endpoints, but are more and more concentrated on securing the cloud. Kaspersky is still concentrated on the endpoints, although the company has been very active in the last year in the analysis of the cyberwar events, most of all in Middle East.
Yes, the rise of the malware on mobile platforms seems unstoppable, not only it reached unprecedented levels in 2012, but apparently it will be the protagonist even for 2013, at least for 5 vendors on 7. Indeed the vendors are 6 if one considers also the cross-platform malware which is equally a threat for mobile platforms. Furthermore one vendor (Fortinet), considers the role of mobile threats also as a threat vector for APTs in 2013.
Politically motivated attacks rank at number 2, even if with different connotations: Kaspersky and Websense mention explicitly state-sponsored attacks, while Symantec and Trend Micro include also attacks motivated by hacktivism in this category. It is not a coincidence that Kaspersky and Websense include Hacktivism into an explicit prediction.
It is also interesting to notice the ransomware at number 3 with just 3 preferences. Particularly interesting the indication of Sophos that speaks of "Irreversible" malware, since this class of threats is increasingly using encryption to make the compromised content unrecoverable.
The trend is even more visible from the distribution chart, that also emphasizes the role of the cloud, in the double shape of source and target of the cyber attacks.
Two vendors (McAfee and Trend Micro) include the proliferation of embedded systems (for instance Smart TV equipped with Android) as one of the main security issues for 2013. Honestly speaking I would have expected a major impact for this threat.
Last but not least, two vendors (Kaspersky and McAfee) believe that Targeted Attacks and Signed Malware will experience a major rise in 2013.
Value Added Distributors of Botnets
Cyber Crime, and in particular botmasters, never cease to amaze. If you were (not so much) surprised in discovering the compromised supply chain behind the Nitol Botnet (that allowed Chinese manufacturers to sell compromised computers pre-installed with the botnet), you'd better have a look at the ZeroAccess Botnet, which has recently been analyzed by Sophos.
ZeroAccess has some impressive "state-of-the-art" features such as:
- Pure User-Mode on 32-bit Windows platforms;
- A Peer-to-peer protocol for communicating with other members of the Botnet to receive updates and downlad plugins;
- A modular architecture (via plugins) that allows to generate revenues for Botnet owners in different ways: Click Fraud or Bitcoin Mining (revenues that the security firms estimates in USD 100,000 per day with the botnet at full power);
- A compromised population of over 9 million of PCs infected.
Really impressive features indeed, even if I must confess they were not the ones that impressed me most.
One of the challenges of a "successful" botnet is the capability to spread as quickly as possible, and infect and insert in the botnet (read enroll) the largest number of hosts in the shortest possible time.
Cyber Criminals are becoming increasingly aware of this, and hence, have developed a lucrative Pay-Per-Install
partnership affiliate scheme to distribute the dropper. This affiliate scheme (I like to call it Partnership program) foresees wall paid revenues for affiliates who are able to execute successful installation of the dropper. This is exactly what happens in case of ZeroAccess and it is the reason of its large-scale extent.
The scheme is typically advertised on underground forums and, in case of ZeroAccess, the revenues are differentiated based on the country (probably US victims are the most lucrative, since US gets paid the most, then UK, Canada and Australia), and also on the access rights of the infected user (Admin gets paid more).
After the discovery of compromised supply chains and programs that foresee revenues for botnet distributors, have you still doubts about the fact that Cyber Crime is really becoming an industry?
April 2012 Cyber Attacks Timeline (Part I)
As usual, here is the list of the main cyber attacks for April 2012. A first half of the month which has been characterized by hacktivism, although the time of the resounding attacks seems so far away. Also because, after the arrest of Sabu, the law enforcement agencies (which also were targeted during this month, most of all in UK), made two further arrests of alleged hackers affiliated to the Anonymous Collective: W0rmer, member of CabinCr3w, and two possible members of the infamous collective @TeaMp0isoN.
In any case, the most important breach of the first half of the month has nothing to deal with hacktivism, targeted the health sector and occurred to Utah Department of Health with potentially 750,000 users affected. According to the Last Ponemon Study related to the cost of a breach ($194 per record) applied to the minimum number of users affected (250,000), the monetary impact could be at least $ 55 million.
Another interesting event to mention in the observed period is also the alleged attack against a Chinese Military Contractor, and the takedown of the five most important al-Qaeda forums. On the hacktivist front, it worths to mention a new hijacked call from MI6 to FBI, but also the alleged phone bombing to the same Law Enforcement Agency. Both events were performed by TeamPoison, whose two alleged members were arrested the day after.
For the sample of attacks I tried to identify: the category of the targets, the category of the attacks, and the motivations behind them. Of course this attempt must be taken with caution since in many cases the attacks did not target a single objective. Taking into account the single objectives would have been nearly impossible and prone to errors (I am doing the timeline in my free time!), so the data reported on the charts refer to the single event (and not to all the target affected in the single event).
As usual the references are placed after the jump.
By the way, SQL Injection continues to rule (the question mark indicates attacks possibly performed by SQL Injection, where the term "possibly" indicates the lack of direct evidences…).
If you want to have an idea of how fragile our data are inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011 and 2012 (regularly updated), and follow @pausparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.
Exclusive Infographic: All Cyber Attacks on Military Aviation and Aerospace Industry
Cross Posted from TheAviationist.
2011 has been an annus horribilis for information security, and aviation has not been an exception to this rule: not only in 2011 the corporate networks of several aviation and aerospace industries have been targeted by digital storms (not a surprise in the so-called hackmageddon) but, above all, last year will be probably remembered for the unwelcome record of two alleged hacking events targeting drones ("alleged" because in the RQ-170 Sentinel downed in Iran episode, several doubts surround the theory according to which GPS hacking could have been the real cause of the crash landing).
But, if Information Security professionals are quite familiar with the idea that military contractors could be primary and preferred targets of the current Cyberwar, as the infographic on the left shows, realizing that malware can be used to target a drone is still considered an isolated episode, and even worse, the idea of a malware targeting, for instance, the multirole Joint Strike Fighter is still something hard to accept.
However, things are about change dramatically. And quickly.
The reason is simple: the latest military and civil airplanes are literally full of electronics, which play a primary role in managing avionics, onboard systems, flight surfaces, communcation equipment and armament.
For instance an F-22 Raptor owns about 1.7 millions od line of codes , an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter about 5.7 millions and a Boeing 787 Dreamliner about 6.5 millions. Everything with some built in code may be exploited, therefore, with plenty of code and much current and future vulnerabilities, one may not rule out a priori that these systems will be targeted with specific tailored or generic malware for Cyberwar, Cybercrime, or even hacktivism purposes.
Unfortunately it looks like the latter hypothesis is closer to reality since too often these systems are managed by standard Windows operating systems, and as a matter of fact a generic malware has proven to be capable to infect the most important U.S. robots flying in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Indian Ocean: Predator and Reaper Drones.
As a consequence, it should not be surprising, nor it is a coincidence, that McAfee, Sophos and Trend Micro, three leading players for Endpoint Security, consider the embedded systems as one of the main security concerns for 2012.
Making networks more secure (and personnel more educated) to prevent the leak of mission critical documents and costly project plans (as happened in at least a couple of circumstances) will not be aviation and aerospace industry's information security challenge; the real challenge will be to embrace the security-by-design paradigm and make secure and malware-proof products ab initio.
While you wait to see if an endpoint security solution becomes available for an F-35, scroll down the image below and enjoy the list of aviation and aerospace related cyber attacks occurred since the very first hack targeting the F-35 Lightning II in 2009.
Of course aviation and aerospace industries are not the only targets for hackers and cybercriminals. So, if you want to have an idea of how fragile our data are inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011 and 2012 (regularly updated) at hackmageddon.com. And follow @pausparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.
As usual the references are after the jump…
September 2011 Cyber Attacks Timeline (Part II)
Here it is the second part of my traditional monthly Cyber Attacks Timeline (Part I available here). From an information Security Perspective the main events of this month were the infamous Diginotar breach which led to Bankrupt for the Dutch Company and also the BEAST attack to SSL, two events which, together, thumbed the Infosec Community in its stomach.
Of course these events did not divert the attention of hackers who kept on to carry on attacks against different targets.
The Anonymous continued their campaign: although mainly focused on the #OccupyWallStreet Operation (in which a Senior Officer who used pepper spray against protestors was "doxed", they targeted several governments including Mexico, Austria, (where they also performed an unconfirmed hack against an health insurance Firm targeting 600,000 dumped users) and Syria. In particular the latter attack triggered a retaliation by Syrian Electronic Soldiers against the prestigious Harvard University.
Chronicles also report a Japan defense contractor hit by hackers, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, (China denied its involvement on the attack), another Twitter Account hacked by The Script Kiddies (this time against USA Today), an indirect attack perpetrated
against (through) Oracle by infecting its MySQL.com domain with downloadable malware and, last but not least a massive defacement of 700,000 sites hosted by Inmotion.
US Navy was also victim of defacement.
As far as the prize for the "Most Expensive Breach of the Month" is concerned, the laurel wreath is undoubtedly for SAIC (Science Applications International Corp.) which lost a tape database backup containing data of 4,900.000 users with an estimated cost of approximately 1 billion of bucks…
As usual, useful Resources for compiling the table include:
- Cyber War News (but it looks like it gave up to post reports on Cyber Attacks on 25 September 2011)
CNET Hackers Chart(unfortunately it is not up-to-date since 24 August 2011).
- DATALOSSdb
- Dark Reading
- Naked Security
- Office Of Inadequate Security (DataBreaches.net)
- The Hacker News
My inclusion criteria do not take into consideration simple defacement attacks (unless they are particularly resounding) or small data leaks.
Update: On 09/30/2011, Betfair reported a 3.15 million records breach with a total estimated cost of 1.3 billion USD winning the laurel wreath of the most expensive breach of the month.
|Sep 16
Websites of several Mexican government ministries
As part of OpIndipendencia, websites of several Mexican government ministries, including Defense and Public Security, are teared down in the same day of the symbolic beginning of Mexico's independence from Spain.
|Sep 16
Clubmusic.com, a worldwide dj website. is hacked and the leak dumped on pastebin.
|Sep 16
|Sec Indi Security Team
|Official Website of The United States Navy
An hacker crew called Sec Indi Security Team Hacker uploads a custom message on the server to warn a WebDav vulnerability.
|WebDav Vulnerabilty
|Sep 16
|California State Assembly
More than 50 employees of the California State Assemby, including some lawmakers, have been warned that their personal information might have been obtained by a computer hacker.
|Sep 17
|Intelligence And National Security Alliance
Names and email addresses of hundreds of U.S. intelligence officials have been posted on an anti-secrecy website. On Monday Sep 10 INSA published a major report warning of an urgent need for cyberdefenses. Within a couple of days, in apparent retaliation, INSA's "secure" computer system was hacked and the entire 3,000-person membership posted on the Cryptome.org website
|Sep 17
|Fake FBI Anonymous Report
A Fake FBI Psychological profile of the Anonymous group is published. Although not a direct cyber attack, this event can be considered an example of psychological hacking and a "sign of the times" of how information and counter information may play a crucial role in hacking.
|Sep 18
|Texas Police
Anonymous/Anti-sec releases a document containing a list of about 3300 members of the Texas Police Association
|Sep 19
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan's biggest defense contractor, has revealed that it suffered a hacker attack in August that caused some of its networks to be infected by malware. According to the firm, 45 network servers and 38 PCs became infected with malware at ten facilities across Japan. The infected sites included its submarine manufacturing plant in Kobe and the Nagoya Guidance & Propulsion System Works, which makes engine parts for missiles.
|Sep 19
|City Of Rennes
TeaMp0isoN takes responsibly to hack the official website of The City Of Rennes (France) via a tweet. They also publish the reason of hack on the defacement page.
|Sep 19
Hana SK Card Co., a South Korean credit card firm, announces that Sep 17, some 200 of its customers' personal information has been leaked. Total cost of the breach is $42,800.
|Hana SK Card
|Sep 20
|Former USSR Region
Source report that at least 50 victim organizations ranging from government ministries and agencies, diplomatic missions, research institutions, and commercial entities have been hit in the former Soviet Union region and other countries in an apparent industrial espionage campaign that has been going on at least since August 2010.The advanced persistent threat (APT)-type attacks — dubbed "Lurid" after the Trojan malware family being used in it — has infected some 1,465 computers in 61 countries with more than 300 targeted attacks.
|Sep 20
|Fox Sports Website
Fox Sports website, on of the most visited Websites in the world (rank 590 in Alexa) gets hacked. An Hacker named "Shad0w" releases SQL injection Vulnerability on one of the sub domain of Fox Sports and exploit it to extract the database. Leaked database info posted on pastebin. Vulnerable link is also posted together admin password hashes.
|Sep 22
|Core Security Technologies
Another security Firm target of hacking: Core Security Technologies is hacked by an hacker called Snc0pe, who defaces some websites belonging to the firm. Mirror of the hack can be seen here.
|Sep 24
Popular IRC service UKChatterbox advises users to change their passwords following a series of hacks which culminated in an attack that may have compromised user details. The password reset follows on from a succession of outages previously attributed to maintenance upgrades, back to the start of the summer. In a notice to users, UKChatterbox advises users to change their passwords and not to re-use them on other sites. The number of hacked account is unknown.
|Sep 25
|Seven Major Syrian Cities and Government Web Sites
The Anonymous unleash a chain of defacement actions against the Syrian Government, hacking and defacing the official sites of seven major Syrian cities, which stayed up in their defaced version for more than 16 hours. The defacement actions kept on the following day in which 11 Syrian Government Sites were defaced as part of the same operation.
|Sep 25
|Indira Gandhi International Airport
Although happened three months ago, it turns out that a 'technical snag' hittinh operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) T3 Terminal was caused by a "malicious code" sent from a remote location to breach the security at the airport.
|Sep 26
|Inmotion Hosting Server
700,000 websites hosted on InMotion Hosting network are hacked by TiGER-M@TE. The hackers copied over the index.php in many directories (public_html, wp-admin), deleted images directory and added index.php files where not needed. List of all hacked 700,000 sites here.
|Sep 26
|Austrian Police
The Austrian Anonymous branch publishes the names and addresses of nearly 25,000 police officials, raising fears for officers' personal security. An Austrian Interior ministry spokesman said the information came from an "association closely related with the police". Estimated cost of the breach is around $ 5,400,000.
|Sep 26
|USA Today Twitter Account
The USA Today Twitter account is hacked and starts to tweet false messages mentioning the other accounts hacked by the authors of the action: the Script Kiddies (already in the spotlight for hacking the FoxNews Twitter Account at the Eve of 9/11 anniversary)
|Account Hacking
|Sep 26
MySQL.com website is struck by cybercriminals, who hacked their way in to serve up malicious code to visiting computers with a Java exploit that downloaded and executed malicious code on visiting Windows computers. Brian Krebs reports that just few days before, he noticed on a Russian underground website that a hacker was offering to sell admin rights to MySQL.com for $3000. MySQL.com receives almost 12 million visitors a month (nearly 400,000 a day).
|Java Exploit to install malware
|Sep 26
|Harvard University
In retaliation for the defacements performed by the Anonymous targeting Syria, Syrian Electronic Soldiers deface the website of the prestigious Harvard University. The same group came in the spotlight during July and August for defacing Anonoplus engaging a "de facto" cyberwar against The Anonymous.
|Sep 26
The month of September is characterized by the OccupyWallStreet Operation, started on September, the 17th and still ongoing. Although not directly configurable as an hacking action, it may rely on the support of the Anonymous who "doxed" a senior police who controversially usec pepper spray against a group of female protesters.
|Sep 27
|COGEL, Council On Governmental Ethical Law
Once again in this month,Snc0pe claims another resounding action. This time the alleged target is the official website of The Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL). He posts a message on pastebin, along with the database download link.
|Sep 28
|Tiroler Gebietskrankenkasse (TGKK)
AnonAustria in the spotlight again after the resounding hack against Austrian Police. This time the victim is an health insurance firm Tiroler Gebietskrankenkasse (TGKK) whose database of some 600,475 medical records AnonAustria claims to have hacked. The databse includes some celebrities. The total cost of the breach is around $128,500,000.00.
|Sep 29
|SAIC (Science Applications International Corp.)
SAIC, one of the Pentagon's largest contractors reveals to have discovered a data breach occurred a couple of weeks before, affecting as many as 4.9 million patients who have received care from military facilities in San Antonio since 1992. The breach involved backup computer tapes from an electronic health care record. Some of the information included Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers and private health information for patients in 10 states. Statement of the data breach here Estimated cost of the breach is around $ 1 billion.
|Car Burglary
|Sep 30
|Laptop Virus Repair
Although not resounding as the one which targeted MySQL.com, here it is another example of a website infected with malicious code targeting a free antivirus cloud based service.
|Laptop Virus Repair
|Malicious Code
|Sep 30
Betfair reports a leak including not only the payment card details of most of its customers but also "3.15m account usernames with encrypted security questions", "2.9m usernames with one or more addresses" and "89,744 account usernames with bank account details". The incident occurred on 14 March 2011 but was announced only 18 months later. Estimated cost of the breach is around $1.3 billion.
September 2011 Cyber Attacks Timeline (Part I)
So here it is, also for this month, the first part of My Cyber Attacks Timeline covering the first half of September.
Apparently It looks like the wave of the Anonymous attacks that characterized August has stopped. Even if several isolated episodes occurred, their impact was slightly lower than the previous months.
Probably the most important security incident for this month was the Diginotar Hack, not only because the Dutch Certification Authority has been banned forever by the main browsers and OSes but also because all the authentication model based on CAs is under discussion. Moreover once again a cyber attack has been used as a mean of repression. This incident is a turnkey point for information security but in my opinion also the DNS hacks by Anonymous Sri Lanka and Turkguvenligi are noticeable since they reinforce the need for a quick adoption of DNSSEC.
For the first time not even the Linux Operating System (an open world) was immune from hackers: both the Linux Kernel and the Linux Foundation Web Sites were hacked during this month, two episodes that Penguin Lovers will remember for a long time.
Easily predictable an attack recalling 9/11 carried on against the Twitter Account of NBC News was also reported.
Other noticeable events: three huge data breaches were reported, four attacks with political motivations targeting India, Nigeria, Colombia, and the Russia Embassy in London were perpetrated and another security vendor (Panda Security) was indirectly targeted.
The remainder of the month was characterized by many smaller attacks (mostly defacements and data leaks) and an actress (Scarlett Johansson) was also victim of data leaks.
Useful Resources for compiling the table include:
- Cyber War News
- CNET Hackers Chart
- DATALOSSdb
- Naked Security
- Office Of Inadequate Security (DataBreaches.net)
- The Hacker News
And my inclusion criteria do not take into consideration simple defacement attacks (unless they are particularly resounding) or small data leaks.
|Sep 1
The site of Kernel.org suffered a security breach leading which caused the server to be rooted and 448 credential compromised. Although it is believed that the initial infection started on August the 12th, it was not detected for another 12 days.
|rootkit (Phalanx)
|Sep 1
|Apple, Symantec, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.
The Sri Lankan branch of Anonymous claims to have hacked into the DNS servers of Symantec, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and several other large organizations over the past few days, posting the news and records of its exploits on Pastebin.
|DNS Cache Snoop Poisoning
|Sep 1
|Birdville Independent School District
Two students hack into their school district's server and accessed a file with 14,500 student names, ID numbers, and social security numbers. Estimated cost of the breach is around $3,000,000.
|Sep 2
|Texas Police Chiefs Association
As usual happens on Fridady, Texas Police Chiefs Association Website is hacked by Anonymous for Antisec Operation. Hacker defaced their website and posted 3GB of data in retaliation for the arrests of dozens of alleged Anonymous suspects. According to Hackers the site has been owned for nearly one month.
|Sep 2
|EA Game Battlefield Heroes
One of the most famous games over the world Battlefield Heroes developed by EA Games is hacked by a hacker named "Why So Serious?" who leaks the User Login passwords on pastebin
|Sep 2
|vBTEAM Underground
Vbteam.info, the underground vBulletin Hacking website is hacked by "Why So Serious?", who leaks 1400+ accounts of the Vbteam.info forum in pastebin.
|Sep 3
|Indian Government
An Indian Hacker named "nomcat" claims to have been able to hack into the Indian Prime Ministers Office Computers and install a Remote Administration Tool) in them. He also Exposes the Vulnerability in Income Tax website and Database Information.
|Sep 4
Popular Websites: : Daily Telegraph, The Register, UPS, Vodafone
Popular websites including The Register, The Daily Telegraph, UPS, and others fall victim to a DNS hack that has resulted in visitors being redirected to third-party webpages. The authors of the hack, a Turkish group called Turkguvenligi, are not new to similar actions and leave a message declaring this day as World Hackers' Day.
|DNS Hijacking
|Sep 5
|Mobile App Network Forum
Mobile APP Network Forum is Hacked by "Why So Serious?". He leaks over 15.000 accounts of the community (Forum) on Pastebin in two parts (Part 1 and Part 2).
|Sep 5
European Union Institute For Energy and Transport
One of the Sub domain of European Union (Institute for Energy) is hacked and Defaced by Inj3ct0r. Hackers deface the web page, release some internal details and leave a message against Violence in Lybia and Russian influence in Ukraine.
|Sep 5
|Cocain Team Hackers
|United Nations Sub Domain of Swaziland
United Nations Sub-Domain of Swaziland is hacked and defaced by Cocain Team Hackers.
|Sep 5
|Uronimo Mobile Platform
The Uronimo Mobile platform is hacked by Team Inj3ct0r. They leak the web site database and release on Pastebin internal data including Username, Hash Password, emails and Phone Numbers of 1000 users. Estimated Cost of the Breach is $214,000.
|Sep 6
|Comodo Hacker
The real extent of the Diginotar breach becomes clear: 531 bogus certificates issued including Google, CIA, Mossad, Tor. Meanwhile in a pastebin message Comodo Hacker states he own four more CAs, among which GlobalSign which precautionally suspends issuance of certificates.
|Several Vulnerabilities
|Sep 7
|Beaumont Independent School District
The superintendent of schools for Beaumont Independent School District announces that letters are being mailed to parents of nearly 15,000 of its 19,848 students to inform them of a potential breach of data that occurred recently. Inadvertently, private information including the name, date of birth, gender, social security number, grade and scores on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) exam of students who were in the third through 11th grades during the 2009-2010 school year–were potentially exposed. Estimated cost of the breach is $3,210,000.
|Human Mistake
|Sep 7
|Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, Calif.
A medical privacy breach leads to the public posting on a commercial Web site of data for 20,000 emergency room patients at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., including names and diagnosis codes. The information stayed online for nearly a year from one of its vendors, a billing contractor identified as Multi-Specialty Collection Services, to a Web site called Student of Fortune, which allows students to solicit paid assistance with their schoolwork. Estimated Cost of The Breach is $4,280,000.
|Human Mistake
|Sep 9
|Comodo Hacker
After suspending issuing certificates, GlobalSign finds evidence of a breach to the web server hosting the www website. The breached web server has always been isolated from all other infrastructure and is used only to serve the http://www.globalsign.com website.
|Sep 9
| Comodo Hacker
As consequence of the infamous Diginotar Breach Google advises its users in Iran to change their Gmail passwords, and check that their Google accounts have not been compromised. Google also indicates that it is directly contacting users in Iran who may have been hit by a man-in-the-middle attack.
|Man In The Middle
|Sep 9
|NBC News
The NBC News Twitter account is hacked and starts to tweet false reports of a plane attack on ground zero. The account is suspended and restored after few minutes.
|Trojan Keylogger via Email
|Sep 9
|Samsung Card
Data of up to 800,000 Samsung Card clients may have been compromised after an employee allegedly extracted their personal information. The Breach was discovered on Aug. 25 and reported to police on Aug. 30. It is not clear what kind of information has been leaked, maybe the first two digits of residence numbers, the names, companies and mobile phone numbers were exposed. Estimated cost of the breach is $171,200.000.
|Unauthorized Access
|Sep 10
|BuyVIP (Amazon Owned)
Although not officially confirmed, BuyVIP users received an e-mail informing that their database had been hacked. Apparently, the website had been offline for a couple days and it looks like that not only names and email addresses were retrieved, but also birth dates, real shipping addresses as well as phone numbers.
|Sep 11
|Linux Foundation
Few weeks after the kernel.org Linux archive site suffered a hacker attack, the Linux Foundation has pulled its websites from the web to clean up from a security breach. A notice posted on the Linux Foundation said the entire infrastructure including LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com, and their subdomains are down for maintenance due to a security breach that was discovered on September 8, 2011.
|Sep 11
Anonymous leaks the complete database from a well known nazi website AryansBook.com and posts the content on The Pirate Bay. This is a fight towards racism of any kind.
|Sep 12
|Bitconitalk Forum
An unknown hacker uses a zero day flaw to steal email addresses, hashed passwords and read personal messages from the bitcointalk.org forum. Forum administrators said the attacker gained root access on 3 September and was able to run arbitrary PHP code not detected until the attacker injected "annoying JavaScript" into the forum pages a week later: the Javascript splashed actor Bill Cosby across the forums and replaced all references to BitCoin with CosbyCoin.
|0-day exploit in SMF
|Sep 12
|Nigerian Government Website
Nigerian Government Website is hacked and defaced by Brazilian Hackers that leave a message in the main page.
|Sep 12
|Vacationland Vendors
A hacker gains unauthorized access to the card processing systems at Wilderness Waterpark Resort and improperly acquires 40,000 credit card and debit card information. Estimated Cost of the Breach is $8,560,000.
|Sep 12
|Panda Security
Another Security Company Hacked: a hacker going by the name of X-Nerd hacks and defaces the Pakistan Server of a very well known security software website: Panda Security.
|Sep 12
|Russian UK Embassy
Just before Prime Minister David Cameron's first visit to Moscow, the website belonging to the Embassy Of The Russian Federation in London was taken down by hackers. It seems as the attack was launched in sign of protest to the upcoming visit after a 5-year break in which no British leader went to Moscow.
|Sep 13
Cyb3rSec dumps a list of 3500+ Accounts from the forum thetvdb.com.
|Sep 13
Albanian hackers belonging to Albanian Cyber Army exploit one of the biggest Game Arena site "Top100″ database using SQL injection attack. They leak the database on mediafire.
|Sep 14
|President of Bolivia (presidencia.gob.bo)
SwichSmoke crew hacks the site belonging to President of Bolivia and dumps the leaked data on pastebin.
|Various Exploits
|Sep 14
The uTorrent.com
|Sep 14
|Bright House Networks
Bright House Networks, the sixth largest owner and operator of cable systems in the U.S., has sent a letter to customers warning that they may have been exposed after servers used to process Video on Demand (VOD) were breached.
|Sep 14
|Scarlett Johansson
Also an actress may be victim of hackers: The FBI investigate reports that nude photos of a famous celebrity (allegedely Scarlett Johansson) have been leaked onto the web. The day before Twitter was flooded with messages claiming to link to naked pictures of her, which were allegedly stolen from her iPhone by a hacker earlier this year.
|Sep 15
|Various Sites
More than 101 sites, with huge amount of data and personal information which ranges from emails, phone numbers, to full names and addresses, have been hacked by an hacker dubbed Stohanko. At this link a list of the hacked sites and the links to dumped data.
August 2011 Cyber Attacks Timeline
Here it is the complete list of Main Cyber Attacks for July: definitively it looks like the Dog Days did not stop the Cyber Attacks, which have been particularly numerous during August.
Following the trail of July, an attack against PCS Consultants, another U.S Government contractor opened this hot month, even if the controversial shady RAT affair monopolized (and keeps on to monopolize) the infosec landscape (and not only during the first half of the month). Easily predictable nearly every endpoint security vendor (and McAfee competitors) tend to minimize the event considering it only the latest example of RAT based cyber attacks with no particular features (see for instance the comment by Sophos, Kaspersky and Symantec).
Analogously the Dog Days did not stop hactivism with the infamous hacking group Anonymous (and its local "chapters") author of several attacks in different countries and most of all of author of a kind of arm wrestling against BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), sometimes carried out with questionable methods. Research in Motion was indirectly involved on the Anonymous Campaign during the London Riot, but also Anonymous was hit by (another) defacement attack carried on by Syrian hackers which affected Anonplus, the alternative Social Network.
South Korea was also hit with other massive breaches (involving also Epson Korea) and a defacement against the local branch of HSBC.
According to my very personal estimates, based on the Ponemon Institute indications, the cost for the data breach for which enough information was available, is around $ 126 million mainly due to the impressive Epson Data Breach.
Useful resources for compiling the table include:
And my inclusion criteria do not take into consideration simple defacement attacks (unless they are really resounding) or small data leaks.
Enjoy the complete list!
|Aug 1
Another U.S. Government contractor, PCS Consultants gets hacked by Anonymous & Antisec. Hackers extract website Database and leak it on the internet via Twitter on Pastebin (as usual!). Leaked Data include Admin's and 110 users emails, plus passwords in encrypted hashes.
|Aug 2
72 hours after the first defacement, Vitrociset, a contractor of Italian Cyber Police, is hacked and defaced again by Anonymous.
|SQLi? Defacement
|Aug 3
|United Nations (Shady RAT)
In an interview to Vanity Fair (as to say, information Security is a fashion), a McAfee Security Researcher declares UN and other international institutions have been victims of a large scale Remote Access Tool based attack from a Foreign Country. The attack is dubbed shady RAT and suspects are directed to China.
|Remote Access Tool
|Aug 3
Anonymous and Colombian Hackers shut down the websites of Colombia's president, the interior and justice ministry, the intelligence service DAS and the governing party. The hacker attack was meant as a protest against government censorship.
|Aug 3
|The SUN and News Corp. International
Britain's Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid The Sun sends a message to readers warning them that computer hackers may have published their data online after an attack on the paper's website last month. A hacker styled 'Batteye' claims to have posted details taken from The Sun on the Pastebin.
|Aug 3
|Front National
As a consequence of the Massacre of Oslo, Anonymous France claims to have hacked a server belonging to Front National, leaking a list of 100 leaders of the party
|Aug 5
Eight weeks after a hacker cracked its credit card database, the company's credit card unit in Japan, Citi Card, reported in a message to its user base that "certain personal information of 92,408 customers has allegedly been obtained and sold to a third party illegally." Estimated cost of the breach is about $19.8 million.
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|Aug 6
|Law Enforcement Agencies
After the first attack to Law Enforcement Institutions in July, Anonymous and LulzSec, as part of what they define the ShootingSheriffsSaturday, leak again 10 Gb of Data from the same Law Enforcement Agencies, including private police emails, training files, snitch info and personal info. The attack was made in retaliation for anonymous arrests
|Aug 6
|SAPPE (Sindacato Autonomo Polizia Penitenziaria)
Anonymous defaces the Web Site of SAPPE (Independent Union of Prison Guards) and leaves a message on pastebin (here in italian) claiming more rights for detainees
|Aug 6
|Policia Federal (Brazilian Police)
LulzSec Brazil hacks Brazilian Police and discloses 8 gb of data from what they defined the Pandora's Box
|USB Key Stolen?
|Aug 7
|Syrian Ministry of Defense
The Syrian Ministry of defense is hacked by Anonymous which defaces the web site and post a note supporting the Syrian people
|Aug 9
|Anonplus (Anonymous Social Network)
In retaliation for the defacement of the Syrian Ministry of Defence, a Syrian Group of hackers dubbed Syrian Electronic Army, has defaced (for the third time), Anonplus, the alternative Social Network in phase of deployment by Anonymous, posting several gruesome images.
|Aug 9
|Research In Motion
As an (in)direct consequence of the London Riots, a crew of hackers called TeaMp0isoN defaces The Official BlackBerry Blog after RIM has indicated to assist London police, who are investigating the use of the messaging service in organizing riots, with a "very extensive monitoring of the BlackBerry Messenger model".
| Aug 9
|Operation Satiagraha
As part of Operation Antisec, LulzSec and Anonymous, release 5gb of documents, photos, audio files and videos, exposing that wich was one of the greatest corruption scandals in the recent history of Brazil
|Aug 10
|University Of Wisconsin Milwaukee
The Social Security numbers of 75,000 students and employees at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee arE exposed after hackers planted malware in a campus server.ty-of-wisconsin-server. Estimated Cost of the Breach is $16 million.
|Aug 10
|Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx)
The Hong Kong stock exchange (HKEx) halts trading for seven stocks in the afternoon trading session after its website was attacked during the morning trading session. The seven stocks in question were all due to release sensitive results to the website that could impact the price of their stocks. Initially the attack was believed to have compromised the web site. Later it was discovered to be a DDoS.
|Aug 12
An hacker called Headpuster, to protest against the sale of user data to a third party operator, hacks Welt.de using an SQL Injection (http://boot24.welt.de/index_welt..php?ac =***) and steals a large amount of data including credit card information of 30,264 users from the database He then publishes censored excerpts. Estimated cost of the breach is around $6.5 million.
|Aug 12
|Hong Kong stock exchange (HKEx)
The Hong Kong stock exchange comes under attack for the second day in a row on Thursday. The exchange blamed a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against its news web server, hkexnews.hk. A Suspect has been arrested on Aug, the 23rd.
|Aug 14
As part of their #OpBART and #Bart-Action in response to a temporary shutdown of cell service in four downtown San Francisco stations to interfere with a protest over a shooting by a BART police officer, Anonymous attacks the myBART.org website belonging to San Francisco's BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) system. They perform a SQL injection (SQLi) attack against the site and extract 2,450 records containing names, usernames, passwords (plain text), emails, phone numbers, addresses and zip codes. Estimated Cost of the Breach is $524,300.
|Aug 15
After SK, Another South Korean service provider reports a large-scale data breach of usernames and passwords for subscribers worldwide. This time, it's the turn of Seoul-based streaming media service GOMTV to suffer a data-spilling intrusion. According to GOM TV, the breach happened early in the morning of Friday 12 August 2011 Korean time; the company sent out a warning email to its subscribers on Sunday 14 August 2011.
|Aug 16
|Vanguard Defense Industries
Antisec targets Richard Garcia, the Senior Vice President of Vanguard Defense Industries (VDI). During the Breach nearly 4,713 emails and thousands of documents are stolen. The attack has been performed on August the 16th, but, as a consolidated tradtion, the torrent has been released on Friday, August the 19th.
|Vulnerability in WordPress Hosting Platform
|Aug 16
Hacker group Cslsec (Can't stop laughing security) leaks some accounts from Ebay and post them on pastebin.
|Aug 17
|BART Police
A database belonging to the BART Police Officers Association is hacked, and the names, postal and email addresses of officers are posted online. Over 100 officers are listed in the document posted, as usual, on pastebin. Estimated cost of the breach is $21,400.
|Aug 20
A turkish based hacker hacks and defaces the Korean branch of HSBC, the global banking group.
|Aug 21
|pr0tect0r AKA mrNRG
The developer forum section of Nokia Website is hacked by Indian Hacker "pr0tect0r AKA mrNRG". He was able to deface the site and access to email records. According to an official statement from Nokia a "significantly larger" number of accounts has been accessed although they do not contain sensitive information.
|Aug 21
|Danish Government
Anonymous Hackers upload a file on Torrent containing the snapshot of the Danish Government database of companies. The snapshot was obtained during the summer of 2011 by systematically harvesting data from the public parts of the cvr.dk website.
|Aug 22
|Epson Korea
Hacking in South Korea: After GOMTV.NET Epson Korea is hit by a massive data breach, involving the personal information of 350,000 registered customers. Hackers break into Epson Korea's computer systems, and steal information including passwords, phone numbers, names, and email addresses of customers who had registered with the company. Estimated cost of the breach is $74,900,000.
|Aug 22
|Libyan domain name registry
Hackers deface the nic.ly website, the main registry which administers .ly domain names (the ".ly" stands for "Libya") and replace it with anti-Gaddafi message.
|Aug 22
@ThEhAcKeR12, an admirer of Anonymous acts independently to breach an outsourced provider and steal a customer list with 20,000 log-in credentials. Many on the list were U.S. government employees. Estimated cost of the breach is around $4,280,000.
|Aug 22
|UK MET Police
As part of the Murder Military Monday, Metropolitan UK Police is hacked for #Antisec by CSL Security using SQL injection Vulnerability and the vulnerable link is also shown on Twitter and pastebin. Other attacked sites include: USarmy.com, GoArmy.com.
|Aug 23
|U.S. Government
F-Secure discovers that on 17th of July, a military documentary program titled "Military Technology: Internet Storm is Coming" was published on the Government-run TV channel CCTV 7, Millitary and Agriculture (at military.cntv. While they are speaking about theory, they actually show camera footage of Chinese government systems launching attacks against a U.S. target.
|Aug 24
Another example of Cyberwars between different hacker crews: TeaMp0isoN hacks Cslsec which claimed to be the new LulzSec
|Aug 25
|U.S. Military Base
Another example of military emails leaked by hackers.
|Aug 27
|Division Hackers Crew
Division Hackers Crew hacks the Database of Borlas.net (Free SMS Site) and leaks the usernames, Passwords, emails and phone numbers of 14800 registered users. As usual, leaked database has been posted on pastenbin. Estimated cost of the breach is $3,167,200.
|Aug 28
Anonymous Hacker hacks Orange.fr and uploads the database and Site source code backup on file sharing site.
|Aug 29
|Iranian Hackers
A user named alibo on the Gmail forums posts a thread about receiving a certificate warning about a revoked SSL certificate for SSL-based Google services. The certificate in question was issued on July 10th by Dutch SSL certificate authority DigiNotar. The fake certificate was forged by Iranian Hackers, and revoked immediately. This is the second episode of a MITM attack against Google after the Comodo Affair in May.
|Aug 29
|Gabia (South Korean domain registrar)
Another Cyber Attack in South Korea: Gabia a South Korean domain registrar is hacked on Saturday Aug 27, according to a report Monday by the Korea Herald. The hack exposed over 100,000 domains and 350,000 users data. The information included names, user IDS, passwords and registration numbers.
|Aug 29
Sometimes they come back: one of the lulzsec members seems to have made a quick returning hacking a child porn trading forum and leaking over 7000 accounts.
|Aug 30
|Wikileaks (1)
Der Spiegel reports that a WikiLeaks file containing the original leaked US State Department cables has inadvertently been released onto the Internet. The documents have not been edited to protect sources, meaning that the lives of informants could be at risk.
|Aug 30
|Wikileaks (2)
The WikiLeaks website, which contains thousands of U.S. embassy cables, has crashed in an apparent cyberattack. The anti-secrecy organization said in a Twitter message Tuesday that Wikileaks.org "is presently under attack."
|Aug 30
@neatstuffs leaks over 23,000 emails and passwords from a Star Wars Fan Club, and all the passwords are in clear text…sad isnt it? that a website would store so many users information with no security.


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Our goal at the Dallas Texans Residency Program is to be seamless in purpose, to develop soccer players who aspire to play at the highest levels and to impact their lives on and off the field. Our belief is that a disciplined, purposeful environment teaches and prepares motivated athletes for success beyond the sport itself. Our student-athletes will be challenged to learn, grow and improve themselves in all aspects of their lives. Learning and practicing superior study habits, general living habits, nutritional knowledge, community respect, responsibility, and a sense of family among teammates are the foundations of DTRP.
Youth sports are competitive and soccer is no different. Today's soccer players struggle to receive enough hours of practice time and quality coaching to reach the higher levels of soccer, such as college and professional. There simply are not enough hours in the day for athletes to train and develop like they deserve within a traditional public school/athletic system. A new system of training is needed for serious athletes who want to combine the necessity of a quality education with their passion for soccer. That opportunity now exists with the Dallas Texans Residency Program.
In many other countries, Soccer Academies have been in operation for decades providing consistent training and high level coaching to give athletes a competitive advantage and allow them to reach their highest levels of achievement. With the proven success rate of these organizations, it is no surprise why Soccer Academies are being selected with more frequency by dedicated players and parents.
Our Vision
The Dallas Texans Residency Program strives to be at the forefront of school-sport development and envisions a future where dedicated student-athletes do not have to choose between passions. Our goal is to grow into an internationally recognized "High Performance Academic Training Institute" that provides outstanding quality and opportunity to our student-athletes. DTRP implements the most innovative, explosive and dynamic soccer program in the United States. The Dallas Texans are in the process of securing nearby land to build Dormitories to complete the Residential program.
DTRP has collaborated with an exceptional team of academic administrators at Quest Middle Schools and iSchool High to develop an educational platform as an answer to the challenges that face student-athletes pursuing soccer excellence under the current educational system. We have created an environment specifically designed for daily scheduling to work together. We foster a concentrated and efficient academic arrangement that allows ample time for soccer training. Our vision is to create and build "skills for soccer and skills for life."

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An interview with MMA coach and pro John Valentine, Ogden boxing results
This week our mini interview is with Draper mixed martial arts professional John Valentine. (Seen at left in a Standard-Examiner file photo) The 43-year-old pro, who also coaches at Hidden Valley and works on the SteelFist fights TV broadcasts on … Read More
Interview with MMA pro Kyle Herrera; Zumbrun, West, Christian to box on Aug. 17 card
This week's mini-interview is with Utah MMA professional Kyle Herrera, who has become a fixture at SteelFist cards. Herrera recently lost an exciting bout against Travis Worsencraft, whom he defeated in a previous bout. Herrera has also tangled with highly … Read More
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A chat with MMA professional Heather George
In a week's time, Top of Utah mixed martial arts professional Heather George will look to extend her undefeated record on April 19 at the Rail Event Center in Salt Lake City against Jenna Bernick. George, a heavyweight, last defeated … Read More
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Reeves, Doss, Alcantara among Ogden fighters in the cage
Happy New Year from the Standard-Examiner's Doug Gibson, who runs the Boxing/MMA blog. On New Year's Eve at the Davis Conference Center, Total Mayhem is promoting a combination MMA fight card and New Year's party afterwards. It's at 1651 North 700 … Read More
An interview with MMA pro Aaron Sutton
This week's mini-interview is with Idaho mixed martial arts professional Aaron Sutton, who will headline at the Dec. 31 Total Mayhem "Takedown" card at the Davis Conference Center. (Aaron is on the right of the graphic. His opponent, Top of … Read More
An interview with MMA fighter Matt Jackson; SteelFist card tonight
This week's mini-interview is with Ogden amateur MMA fighter Matt Jackson (seen after his victory at the One-Strike-One-Kill card Nov. 17 at the Davis Conference Center) Matt scored a first round knockout. 1A) Provide age, weight, height and MMA fight … Read More


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After having reviewed the first NUON-player in the market, the Samsung Extiva, my interest in the technology was definitely piqued. Since now DVD publishers are also beginning to release dedicated NUON content on a number of releases, I felt I should also give the next player, that has NUON capabilities, a look. Currently five publishers are committed to releasing NUON-enhanced content on selected DVDs, and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's release of "Bedazzled" is only the first in a number of titles we will see this year.
All of which makes Toshiba's SD-2300 even more interesting. At a suggested retail price of $399, like the Samsung Extiva, Toshiba's NUON-player is geared towards the lower mid range of DVD player pricing. The player is coming in a solid chassis and is surprisingly light. The matte black aluminum chassis makes a good impression and the few controls on the front are well placed and cover the most basic functions of the player, and also features the NUON-connector, hidden under a small, removable blind panel.
While I can understand the lack of gold plated connectors in a competitively priced DVD player such as this, I feel that no matter how low the retail price of a DVD player, an optical output is something that simply has to be part of the hardware, in order to allow for the best possible connection. Especially given the fact that the cost to implement an optical output is entirely negligible with today's circuitry, I am unable to follow Toshiba's decision making process here. The player has component outputs for best possible video presentation, but no optical connector for the audio.
Although I consider the lack of an optical output a serious flaw in the Toshiba SD-2300, everything else about this machine is rock solid. Unlike the Samsung NUON-enhanced DVD player, the Toshiba SD-2300 does not contain nearly as much show-off features, remaining true to Toshiba's reputation that is built on quality and functionality rather than bells and whistles. And quality and functionality is what this player is all about. From the moment you insert a disc into the drive to the moment you turn it off, this player oozes elegance and slick, understated technology. The spin-up time of a DVD is quite good and while some other players are still trying to go through the disc's boot-up sequence, the Toshiba is already launching the disc's content.
Overall the SD-2300 behaves like any regular DVD player. There is no NUON-button on the remote control that triggers a spiffy NUON-menu and some of the superficial functions of the Samsung player are missing entirely - which is a good thing. The power of the SD-2300 becomes evident when you start using standard functions, like fast-forward. Suddenly the image glides by much smoother than on any regular DVD player. While still not perfect, and still without sound, this mode is beautiful, although it requires some getting used to. The same is true for the slow motion and fast-rewind. Although implemented transparently in the player I sometimes found myself wondering why the picture was moving so slowly in a fast-rewind mode, only to find that I was going in absolutely smooth slow motion. Well, old habits are hard to break, I guess, and a few more presses on the rewind button quickly solved the problem.
The zoom of the SD-2300 is also beautiful. Using additional filters to anti-alias the filter as you zoom in, the player manages to magnify portions of the image extremely without ever introducing the pixel-look of traditional players.
The Toshiba SD-2300 makes a very solid impression, and the responsiveness of the player is generally good. It is not perfect however and could (should) be improved. While some functions kick in almost immediately upon pressing the according button on the remote control, others, such as fast-forwarding, show a noticeable response delay. Especially in the really fast forward mode, this delay constantly causes you to overshoot your navigation. Until the player realizes that you have hit the "Stop" button, the scene you wanted to stop has already passed and the player returns to standard playback mode a good few frames after the desired position. (On a side note I would like to remark that this problem was extremely noticeable in the SD-6200 model, where the player overshot scenes by up to 20 seconds!) And why it takes a player 5 seconds or more to shut down when I hit the "Power Off" button is something I simply do not understand.
In a compatibility test, the Toshiba SD-2300 fared also very well. Throwing some of the toughest releases at the player didn't cause any problems. Whether it is "The Matrix" - the mother of all incompatibility triggers - "Terminator 2" with its seamless branching or any other DVD that we tried, the SD-2300 worked through all of them without the slightest hiccups. This is not really surprising, given the fact that these titles were released some time before the player, but it is always good to see that player manufacturers keep working on their firmware to ensure maximum compatibility of existing titles.
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The ACLU and Lambda Legal will file a federal lawsuit today seeking to end the ban on marriage for same-sex couples in Virginia. The lawyers and clients in the case will have a news conference in Harrisonburg at 10:00 a.m. and in Richmond at 1:30.
Ken Cuccinelli will be in southside throughout the day today visiting energy related businesses to discuss his Energy Plan for Virginia Jobs and Families. He'll also have a coffee town hall at Mary's Diner in Danville at 8:00.
Automakers will report sales figures for July today and analysts estimate an increase of some 15-percent over last July. It would make the strongest July for auto sales in seven years.
Danville's transit system will begin its fee and service schedule changes today. You can find routes and schedules online or at the transfer center along with the discounts available.
Martinsville's interim police chief starts today. Captain Eddie Cassady's will leading the department while the search continues for retired Chief Mark Rogers' permanent replacement.
The Western Virginia Workforce Development Board Youth Council will have a roundtable discussion today about preparing the future workforce. The meeting is from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Roanoke Higher Ed Center.
Today is the day to pre-register for the Roanoke Valley Back 2 School Blast if you're a low income family in need of school supplies. Register from 9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. at the Roanoke Rescue Mission or Manna Ministries.
The Lynchburg Campus of National College is having a home-based and small business career and networking fair today in the annex building. It's free and open to the public from 5:30-7:30 p.m..
Q99 is continuing to pack the bus today. Today it's taking place at the Covington & Lexington Walmarts from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m..
The following are mugshots of individuals arrested in May by local authorities in Northeast Tennessee.
The following are mugshots of individuals arrested in May by local authorities in Northeast Tennessee.


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The Village of the Arts is a vibrant community of artists living and working together in Bradenton, Florida. The Village is Florida's largest art community and over 30 businesses call the Village home. Galleries, studios, cafes, healing arts, jewelry, fashion and books can all be found as you wander the streets of this charming area of restored 1920's and 30's cottages. Located just south of downtown, the Village is one of Bradenton's most exciting areas. Carving out a creative community where people can live and create, going strong after more than 15 years.
Open year-round with monthly Artwalks the first Friday (6-9:30pm) and following Saturday (11am-4pm) of every month. Closed Sundays. Normal business hours vary by gallery. Please see website map or visit our artist/gallery page for details . Most galleries and businesses open Friday and Saturday from 11am-4pm. Click here for a list of summer hours for all your favorite Village spots.
September Artwalk: Friday September 5, 6-9:30pm and Saturday September 6, 11am-4pm. Go Bananas during our Gorilla Artwalk! Gorilla painting demos, parade puppet making and totem building. Friday September 5, 6pm-9:30pm and Saturday September 6, 11am-4pm.
Enjoy the Coolest Place in town all summer long. The Village of the Arts is the place to be for the hottest and largest selection of local art. Take a stroll in the cool of the evening among our 30 galleries and 3 five-star restaurants all nestled in colorful 1920 cottages. Join us for an unforgettable weekend of great art, music, wine and good food. It's always happening at the Coolest Place in town!
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Larry Allan's award winning nature photography to benefit Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife.
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Take a look at our Auto & Home page to see several new databases you can access any time of day or night with your Cook Memorial library card number. The "Auto" part of the page isn't brand new, since we have had the terrific Chilton auto repair database for several months. However, the "Home" features are new additions. You can search for recipes using the Culinary Arts Collection, find instructive articles to help with remodeling projects in the Home Improvement Collection, and research gardening questions in the Garden, Landscape and Horticulture Collection.
You will also notice on the Auto & Home page a selection of searchable online reference books dealing with cooking, gardening, and antiques. These are just a sampling of the online reference books available.Clicking on any one of the book covers will take you to a page where you can search within all 17,000+ titles now available full-text to our patrons.
Perhaps the most intriguing of these new databases is PriceIt! Antiques & Collectibles. This pricing tool provides data and images for art, antiques and collectibles in over 100 categories and subcategories from eBay, online antique dealers (GoAntiques and TIAS) and land-based auction houses. Try it out and see how much that family heirlom might fetch if you decided to part with it!


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From the 2007 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey patient record:
Was any health education ordered or provided at this visit? (A check box is provided for "diet/nutrition.")
(Question 5a) As specifically as possible, list diagnose related to this visit including chronic conditions (For example, depression, obesity, or asthma. Up to three diagnoses may be reported.)
(Question 5b) Regardless of the diagnosis written in 5a, does the patient now have: (A list of 15 conditions is provided for the physicians to check. Conditions relevant to this question are: has congestive heart failure, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension or ischemic heart disease.)
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A professional-quality meteorologist's rain gauge
The entire instrument is clear, weather-resistant plactic, graduated to .01" with an overflow slot capable of holding 11 inches of rainfall. It comes with mounting hardware and 5 years worth of record keeping sheets. 14" long. 4-1/8"-dia. opening. USA made.
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Clear Vu Professional Rain Gage 11"
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I use this one becouse it will hold 11 inches or rain plus read down to less than a tenth. I have used this type before then changed to an electron gauge, this will last better than the electronic ones.
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Just what my husband wanted Was a surprise giftshipping was to high
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Well made, lacks markings
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The outer tude has no gradations, which means for rainfall greater than 1 inch, you have to pour the rain into the center tube for measuring. This seams like it could have been solved with markings. Certainly not as accurate as the current meathod, but whether i get 3.45 or 3.46 inches is not a big deal to me. Mark the outer tube in tenths only.
Has the kind of accuracy I'm looking for
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Although it's winter now, I'm looking forward to using this gauge when the rain returns...
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I also have a personal weather station atop my house. One of the problems with the weather station is the rain sensor is shallow and sometimes rainfall amounts are inaccurate because blowing rain does not record correctly. This gauge will solve that, and with it all I have to do is adjust the measurements manually into my weather station records.


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There were more than Ravens and Lions at the NFL exhibition game Friday August 17th.
The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) is alerting fans they may have been exposed to rabies from bats.
A bat reportedly landed on someone in the 500 section of M & T Bank Stadium during the game. The bat was brushed off and flew away so it couldn't be tested for rabies. But the concern comes from the bat touching the fan and possibly others seated nearby.
Anyone that was in the 500 section of the stadium and had contact with the bat is being told to call their local health department.
DHMH Says, "The Bats are an important part of our environment; however, they can sometimes be infected with rabies. Rabies is a viral disease of mammals that can be transmitted by infectious saliva, usually through a bite."
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3:50pm Monday 5th April 2010 in Horse racing By Patrick O'Kane, Senior News/Sport Reporter
CHELTENHAM Festival winner Chief Dan George is still in the hunt for Saturday's Grand National at Aintree.
The Cartmel based horse, trained by Jimmy Moffatt claimed the William Hill Trophy at Cheltenham and is one of 65 horses vying to get into the race, with just 40 places available.
Trainer Moffatt said: "We had the first declaration on Monday and we needed about another eight horses to drop out to be in the main 40 for the race.
"We have just got to stick to our normal routine and nothing changes. We can't do anything about the outcome but we will prepare as if he is racing on Saturday."
Moffatt explained the original plan before Cheltenham was to aim for the Scottish Grand National at Ayr and the Bet365 Gold Cup at Sandown.
He added: "Chief Dan George did so well at Cheltenham he became a contender for the Grand National and we had to change our plans but that is now a realistic goal."
Moffatt said it would be possible for horses to pull out of Saturday's race, particularly if the ground gets softer, but said good to soft ground would suit Chief Dan George.
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Your first symptoms of an autoimmune disease may be general, such as fatigue, low-grade fever, and difficulty concentrating, making autoimmune diseases difficult to diagnose at first. You also may feel depressed and consult a doctor for that.
According to Mary J. Shomon, author of the book Living Well With Autoimmune Disease: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You ... That You Need to Know, what ensues after registering these complaints may be an odyssey to pinpoint which of the almost 60 different autoimmune disorders you might have, all of which affect the body differently.
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About 50 million Americans -- the vast majority of them women, especially women of working and childbearing age -- suffer from autoimmune ailments. Rheumatoid arthritis, type I diabetes, psoriasis, alopecia, lupus, thyroid disease, Addison's disease, pernicious anemia, celiac disease, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barre syndrome -- these are just a few of the ailments that scientists now think stem from a common phenomenon: the activation of the body's immune system against the body itself. Also suspected of having this as a component are chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.
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That such different-seeming diseases as psoriasis and diabetes could stem from a common cause actually is a relatively new notion, according to Noel R. Rose, MD, PhD, professor of molecular microbiology and immunology and pathology at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Back in the early days of the last century, he says, the idea took hold that if the immune system were to benefit us, it would have to be warding off foreign invaders from outside the body.
Now, scientists know that the immune system is a set of actions and reactions that can be triggered by a number of things besides an invading germ, virus, or bacteria. One thing that puts you at risk for being attacked by your own immune system is your genetics, says Rose. In other words, if your parents have a predisposition to autoimmune disease, you may, too. "And it's an overlapping inheritance," Rose says. "If you have one autoimmune disease, you may have more -- and you may have different ones than your parent did (or your siblings do)."
Another common characteristic of all autoimmune diseases is that it is thought that an outside agent is required to start the process. Even with a genetic tendency, a person may not develop an autoimmune disease without an environmental influence to set it off. Examples of these are infections, certain foods (iodine or gluten products), and toxins (some drugs, smoking, certain hair dyes, chemicals in the workplace).
Dozens of culprits have been identified. Shomon reels off a list of possible suspects in the more common autoimmune ailments: hair dye and certain drugs for lupus, silica exposure for scleroderma; gluten for diabetes; mycoplasmas for rheumatoid arthritis; measles virus for Epstein-Barr; coxsackie virus for diabetes; smoking for thyroid, lupus, and arthritis; hepatitis B infection for multiple sclerosis. She says physical trauma can also touch off the immune response.
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The country's coastal cities are justifiably famous for their long, beautiful beaches, where swimmers can enjoy themselves in safety and which offer facilities for all ages.
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While taking a stroll along the 12-kilometer beachfront, stop and have a look at the Marina between the Delilah and Bar-Kochba beaches. More than 600 boats can be moored there, and it is often full, as it has the best facilities in the country for yachts plying the Mediterranean. It's fun to watch the boats and fishermen, as well as the water-sports enthusiasts.
If you have young children, they will no doubt try and persuade you to spend all day at Ashkeluna Water Park on the Delilah Beach. With special facilities for kids age three and up, it's a relief for parents to know that all their children can find things to do in the same place – from small shallow pools with gentle slides for toddlers, to hair-raising kamikaze slides in the larger pools. Plenty of staff members are on hand in high season to keep lines for the slides moving and to supervise the kids. There's also room on the lawns for families to sit together and have a picnic, if they can persuade the kids out of the water.
Ashkelon's magnificent National Park, which backs onto the southern end of the beach, is definitely worth a visit. Ashkelon is mentioned in the Bible as one of the five Philistine cities, but its heyday was during the Roman period, and one can see many columns, capitals, basilica and other ruins, as well as several ancient wells, in this expansive park.
Crusader walls and fortifications from the Canaanite period, as well as Greek statues, are among the items you'll be able to spot as you wander around, picnic or play ball with the kids. There are also overnight camping facilities.
The ancient Khan in Ashkelon's old quarter is home to the town's History Museum, where you can see an audio-visual presentation of the town's past.
Concerts and shows take place there as well.
Netanya, long popular among young vacationers and retired "Anglo-Saxons," took an extra leap in popularity when the beach elevator was installed. The glass-walled Seaview Elevator reduced to a mere 20 seconds the 40-meter descent from the promenade and cliff tops to the inviting 13.5-km. of white beaches below. The long treks down the cliff paths are now but a memory.
The promenade above the beach is a delight in itself, with art galleries, cafes, parks and children's playgrounds along it, as well as many benches facing the sea.
It's also pleasant just to sit in the amphitheater by Ha'atzmaut Square, even when there is no entertainment, and just watch the boats, the swimmers, the surfers and paragliders and, of course, the indescribable sunset over the Mediterranean. If it's action you're looking for, you can take part in all the water sports instead of just watching, and there is a Karting Center as well as a bicycle park. For those smitten by the wall-climbing craze, Ha'ogen Wall Climbing Center just outside Netanya is the place, offering short walls for beginners as well as heart-stopping heights for the experienced.
You'll find two other fun activities just outside Netanya, both a little less exhausting.
For chocolate-lovers, there is Sarina Chocolates in Moshav Ein Vered, where you can have hands-on fun making and tasting chocolate, learning about its origins, and seeing owner Limor Drucker's own cocoa trees. She's the first person to try and grow these in Israel, and she hopes one day to be able to make her own chocolate from scratch.
In Kfar Hess, you can visit Uri Magen's multicolored collection of parrots. They are very friendly and will happily pose on your shoulder for photos and let you feed them. They'll even speak to you in Hebrew – although still with a "parrot" accent. Although very basic and low-tech, this little farm is a delight for young children, with an arts and crafts center and a petting corner with other animals and birds.
Utopia Orchid Farm in nearby Kibbutz Bahan is heaven for visitors, who'll discover not just a brilliant, multicolored selection of orchids, but also a tropical rain forest with waterfalls and bridges.
There are carnivorous plants that eat anything that flies above them, attracted by their perfume; peacocks strutting around the lawns; mazes; musical fountains; and an impressive cactus garden with large cacti reminiscent of Wild West films.
The country's northernmost seaside town has always been known as a place for a quiet, calm vacation.
However, it has livened up considerably over the years – though it doesn't want to be in competition with Tel Aviv or Netanya.
Founded by German immigrants fleeing from Nazi Europe in the 1930s, it is named after the Ga'aton River (nahar), which flows through the center of the town from east to west and cuts Ga'aton Boulevard in two. During a rainy winter, the river occasionally overflows its banks, but in general it flows gently into the sea. In the summer evenings, when it's a bit cooler, it's a pleasure to ride in a horse-drawn buggy from Ga'aton Boulevard to the beach or take the mini-train.
There is a huge park in the northern area of the city, which will keep younger members of the family happy for hours. If you want something more invigorating, visit the Putsker Center and try out some fishing or diving under supervision, suitable for both children and adults. You can also take a boat ride up and down the coast. Besides that, there is a sports park for cyclists, skaters and skateboarders, with hilly terrain to test their skills.
History buffs can learn more about this city's past at Lieberman House, which is one of the oldest buildings in the town and has been converted into a museum. There's also an art gallery in the old Water Tower, which, apart from providing water to the town in its earliest days, was a hidden underground training center for Hagana fighters.
Nahariya's Botanical and Zoological Gardens offer you two pleasures for the price of one, as you can see all the local flora and fauna, as well as animals from all over the world. Children can also enjoy getting up close to some smaller animals in the petting zoo.
While you're in the far North, visit Rosh Hanikra, where you can take a stomach-lurching two-minute ride down the chalky cliffs in the steepest cable car ride in the Middle East, and tour the grottoes carved out over the centuries by the pounding waves. The feel of the sea spray on a hot day is pure bliss, but walk carefully, as the ground is quite slippery. If you visit at night, the lighting gives a totally different, romantically eerie atmosphere.
A short film shown in the old railway tunnel will help you understand how historically strategically important this site was, standing as it does at a crossroads between Africa and Egypt and through to Lebanon and Syria.
Afterward you can take a stroll along the promenade or rent a family bicycle. Occasionally the site operates a 40-minute mini-train ride to Achziv and back.
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