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Who: Cameron Knight
What: Let me entertain you
Where: RMIT's Capitol theatre (top floor)
When: March 24 - April 6
How to book: Ticketmaster 7 1300 66 0013 and at the door
Who: Stephen K Amos, Rhod Gilbert and Mickey
What: Best of the Edinburgh Fest
Where: RMIT's Capitol Theatre (first floor)
When: March 24 - April 17
How to book: Ticketmaster 7 1300 66 0013 and at the door
Aaahhhh, the Comedy festival. It's crazy, it's hectic, it's wildly unorganised and hilariously improvised.
My festival timetable began in debacle. It took half an hour to locate my tickets to the show, one hour to find parking, a burst water main in Swanston St provided my bare legs with a nice spray and in the end my fellow mate and I ended up inadvertently wondering why 'Aussie' Cameron Knight had a Welsh accent.
You see, our plan was to catch the 'Let me Entertain You' show of Cameron Knight (which I hear is quite good) but fate had other plans.
Some incredibly vague directions at the box office and a ticket checker clearly in another world, meant that we actually ended up still correctly at the Capitol theatre but in the Best of the Edinburgh Fest.
And if Mickey D opening his monologue with the words 'Welcome to the best of the Edinburgh Fest' wasn't enough of a hint for us, the fact that our allocated seats were exactly the same as someone elses should have been a dead give-away.
But no, we did not click until we had seen two-thirds of the show, stand-up comedian Mickey D and his Welsh couterpart Rhod Gilbert; by which time poor old Cameron had long finished.
Needless to say, our introduction to the festival may not have gone quite as planned, but stumbling across some Edinburgh besties was a blessing in disguise.
Rhod Gilbert's observations of why he remained single were witty and clever and Mickey D's improvisation with the crowd had most relishing the chance to heckle and jeer.
And although we scuttled out before the last act, thinking we may miss our next booking, I hear that Stephen K Amos was equally delightful to hear.
Our night ended after midnight - it turns out our next show was running 45 minutes late!
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The Gordon Lee Trojans were not able to make it three titles in a row in the Bluegrass State, but still managed a very respectable third-place finish at the Woodford County (Ky.) Invitational over the weekend.
The Navy-and-White had six wrestlers place and collected 177 points. They finished 5.5 points behind Jefferson City (Mo.) and Woodford County (Ky.) Black, who tied for the championship with 182.5 points.
Jonathan Ragsdale ran his season record to 37-0 after winning the 113-pound class with two pins and two major decisions, while Will Jacks improved to 35-1 by winning the 152-pound division.
Shane Farmer was forced to settle for second at 195 pounds. Dallas Goodlet lost his first match on Friday at 220 pounds, but won six straight bouts in the consolation bracket to take third place. His last five wins came by pinfall.
Stihl Lance (126) and Sydney Rhinehart (160) each advanced to the championship semifinals. Rhinehart eventually finished fourth, while Lance was fifth.
A total of 31 teams representing five states made up the field.
Up next for the Men of Troy will be the Area 3-A Duals at Trion High School next Saturday. The top two teams at the area meet will join the top two teams from the other three Class A areas for the State Duals Jan. 10-11 at the Macon Coliseum.
Mariakis wins Rockmart title for Ridgeland
Junior Caleb Mariakis added a Rockmart Invitational title to his resume on Saturday as he claimed the 126-pound title. Mariakis beat Ringgold's Sam Shepard, 8-6, avenging a semifinal loss to Shepard in last weekend's McCallie Invitational.
Mariakis was the only Panther wrestle to place at Rockmart. Patrick Alford went 3-2 at 106 pounds, but finished one win short of the medal rounds.
Ridgeland will travel to Gilmer High School for the Area 7-AAAA Duals, which begin Friday afternoon.
The top two teams at the area meet will join the top two teams from the other seven Class AAAA areas for the State Duals Jan. 9-11 at the Macon Coliseum.


text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The departure of JPMorgan's ( JPM) global head of proprietary trading, Mike Stewart, to start up a hedge fund seems to show that new banking regulations may not be toothless afterall.The Financial Times, which broke the story, described the exodus of Stewart and other members of his team as a setback for JPMorgan. The story has been picked up by other financial media, which all took pains to label the defections as fallout from U.S. regulatory moves to limit proprietary trading under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Separately, Goldman Sachs ( GS), began unwinding its investments in hedge funds to comply with Dodd-Frank's so-called Volcker Rule, which limits investments by banks, The Wall Street Journal reported today. So even though the major banks continue to battle regulators over implementation of Dodd-Frank, it seems that the mere threat of a ban is enough. As TheStreet's banking analyst, Phil van Doorn, notes in his article today, JPMorgan is not alone among big banks that are starting to lose their best and brightest to hedge funds. Recent 10K filings by Morgan Stanley ( MS) and Bank of America ( BAC) all mentioned the impact of Dodd-Frank on their operations. It just goes to show that uncertainty about potential regulations can wreak more havoc than the regulations themselves. For good or for bad, the impact of Dodd-Frank is being felt. --Written by Glenn Hall in New York. Follow me on Twitter @GlennHall


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Malicious software has become a major component of criminal business and geopolitics. In addition it is a convenient explanation for anything one does not want to investigate. Since code always come from somewhere you have to ask yourself many more questions when it comes to infected networks and compromised hosts. What is the agenda of the day? Journalist Erich M├Čchel has written an article about the arms race regarding malicious software. We have translated the original text from German to English. Expect the state of cyber in your network to rise in the course of the next years.
The enormous damage done by "Petya" and "WannaCry" can be traced back to a single, reworked tool from the leaked NSA pool of the "Shadow Brokers". Experts assume that this is only the beginning.
The latest outbreak of malicious software in the past week shows the dangerousness of the new phase the ŌĆØcyber" arms race has entered in the beginning of 2017. The core functions of "Petya" – like the ones of "WannaCry" that came before – stem from a large arsenal of high-quality malicious software, which had been developed for the NSA, but fell into the hands of an enemy intelligence service in 2016.
By now there is hardly any doubt that both campaigns were not carried out by criminals but state actors. In addition, the anti-virus industry assumes that these outbreaks were only the beginning and another arsenal could appear on the net. This arsenal of the CIA is already on Wikileaks, where since March new espionage programs are being presented every week.
Julian Assange's team keeps the programs to themselves, but alongside Wikileaks and the CIA itself, there is a third party,still unknown,who has this convolute of about a thousand espionage programs and digital burglary tools at its command. Whoever has exfiltrated this enormous data set from the intranet of the CIA, which is strictly separated from the Internet, and passed it on, has the same data set at his disposal, also containing all the malicious programs unpublished by Wikileaks.
This is a comprehensive wiki for the "cyber" warriors of the CIA, including manuals, tutorials, and related programs, which are clearly different from those of the NSA. All CIA programs are easy to apply and to use because they have not been written for programmers, but for taught "cyber lateral entrants". Furthermore, this entire set of malicious software was not written for the systematic complete tapping of data streams ├Ā la NSA, but for targeted ad-hoc espionage. For each eventuality, it provides one with simple but suitable auxiliary tools.
While the NSA prefers meaningless, randomly generated codes for their programs, the CIA's nomenclature is quite striking. The latest release of Wikileaks published on Friday is called "Outlaw Country" ("Land of the Lawless") and targets Linux servers and gateways. "OutlawCountry" causes infected computers to route traffic from a company or government network to the Internet via hidden servers of the CIA. Since at the internet gateways and firewallls of large networks SSL / TLS encryption gets routinely broken up in order to enable anti-virus scans of incoming, encrypted data streams, the user's login data and passwords for any websites can also be tapped.
The case of "Petya" is an example of what can happen if such malicious programs fall into the hands of third parties who want to do something else than just spy. Apart from its name ŌĆ£PetyaŌĆØ has very little in common with an eponymous blackmail software, known since 2015. In the case of the new ŌĆ£PetyaŌĆØ, according to all the malware analysts, first-class "exploit" named EternalBlue, which had been used by the NSA for many years to exploit a serious windows vulnerability, has been combined with new features.
While EternalBlue was written for specific, "manual" espionage missions against certain networks, Pseudo-"Petya" caused "EternalBlue" to spread independently by the means of a so called "worm". In whichever internal network machines were identified, which windows systems were not up-to-date, they were captured by the NSA exploit. The camouflage as a blackmail software, however, did not last long after anti-virus experts had found out that the hard disks were not encrypted but formatted, that is, overwritten.
Furthermore, the only software module that did not work at all in this otherwise very efficient attack was the mechanism for collecting the ransom money. Prior to this, "WannaCry" had also proved to be ineffective precisely in that respect. Here too, the collection function was highly deficient. As is apparent from the blockchain data, these two spectacular malware fireworks have gained no more than $ 100,000 in bitcoins around the world. Since all transactions with these bitcoins are traceable, their conversion into real money will be difficult and, above all, diminished by high financial losses.
The NSA's EternalBlue exploit was targeted only at computers with critical control and switching functions, which are usually connected to an internal network, but not to the Internet. This supposedly high security due to separation from the Internet has led to the fact that the security of such control PCs has generally been neglected so far. What happens when people try to save money through extending the maintenance cycles of their service contracts was demonstrated by the British health system, where controllers for medical devices were badly hit by "WannaCry".
As the "Postmortem" analyses show, the epicenter of pseudo-"Petya" was the Ukraine, the first series of infections mainly concerned computers and switchgear of power suppliers and telecoms there. Through its non-controllable worm function "Petya" afterwards quickly spread to other networks worldwide. The initiators hazarded the consequences of the resulting collateral damage and the "Shadow Brokers" had little scruples to simply publish high-quality digital intrusion tools on the net.
In quite the same way – but probably even easier – many individual modules from the digital CIA burglar toolbox could be re-used for other purposes. When it comes to "security" by separating control computers from the Internet, the CIA arsenal also includes a module called "BrutalKangaroo". Its core function is to bounce over the so-called "air gap" into a physically separated "isle network", as is typical for systems like the ones used for power plant control.
Jul 17
Unfortunately, you can not rely on antivirus programs when it comes to the security of your own business. Antivirus programs do not read newspapers, they do not attend lectures, they don't protect you from social engineering or know the meaning of Facebook friends or Twitter tweets. False friends, indeed.
The continuous monitoring and evaluation of threats is the next step in information security. This aspect has always been an important part of digital defense. Today's discussion often centers around the term Security Intelligence, which unites different approaches. The DeepINTEL is Austria's first event, which, since 2012, has been taking up this topic – in all its facets, because modern information security is interdisciplinary. Lectures by experts from various fields of science, defence and industry: At DeepINTEL you have the opportunity to strategically rethink your digital protection and improve it decisively.
The most dangerous threats come from within. That is to say, if modern companies can still distinguish between internal and external at all ŌĆō social engineering is a dangerous threat, which overcomes any technological barrier. Mostly unintentionally, but in the case of targeted attacks long prepared and deliberately, actions lead to compromised systems or information to be inserted or removed. The presentation of Professor Ulrike Hugl is devoted to classifying internal threats according to motivation and behaviour. Profiles based on current cases will be presented and discussed. From this, you can derive methods for your own defence.
Analysing threats and reacting in real time is no longer enough. Who's just on a par with the attacker can't prevent damage. This is true for almost all protection systems currently used in companies and public authorities. An effective defence requires several ways to anticipate the next steps of the opponents and to take action against them in a targeted and coordinated way. Only a few manage to take the next step forward towards the use of adaptive measures. At DeepINTEL, Matthias Seul, an expert from the IBM Protector team will analyse the facts and share his experiences.
Measurable relationships between entities and behaviour patterns of actors are key information for threat analysis. With ProcDOT, Christian Wojner is presenting a tool in his DeepINTEL lecture that uses malicious software to draw conclusions from the behaviour of the code and compare it. A visualisation based on time stamps and graphs is used, which composes thousands of individual activities into one overall picture. Compared to classical methods this information is much more meaningful because cross-connections between variants of malicious software and activities become visible. The analysis of social networks achieves something similar. Using the example of Twitter there'll be an impressive demonstration at DeepINTEL on how to visualize the data flow between and the networks of various groups using publicly accessible information (Open Source Intelligence, OSINT). The principle can be applied to the entire spectrum of social media.
Any dispute uses disinformation as a weapon, no matter whether the opponents oppose each other analogously or digitally. The outbreak of the Petya.2017 virus is a good example. The malicious software was never meant to be ransomware. Rather, its aim was to achieve media attention and to spread a specific story. At DeepINTEL Volker Kozok will talk about another highly topical example: He discusses elements of the Russian cyber war strategy by means of the Russian and Ukrainian activities in networks. The borders between cybercrime, hacktivism, and state sponsored actions are blurred, making an easy assignment, as it is portrayed in the media, very difficult. The lecture also illuminates the narratives and Russian propaganda, as they are disseminated in Germany, as well as the role of online trolls and social bots.
Unfortunately, when it comes to information security, a company can not shut itself off from geopolitical events. Antivirus programs do not read newspapers nor attend lectures, so the importance of security events must be taken into account by the IT department.
The DeepINTEL conference aims to provide a platform where both experts and users can share and exchange ideas about methods of security intelligence. Modern information security is interdisciplinary because it is about so much more than electronic data processing like back in the 1960s. Delegation in the form of outsourcing only shifts problems and makes you blind to threats. At DeepINTEL you have the opportunity to strategically rethink your digital protection and improve it decisively.
The DeepINTEL conference takes place on 21/22. September 2017 at the Imperial Riding School ŌĆō A Rennaissance Hotel in Vienna. The preliminary schedule is also available for download.
Our wonderful world of technology is full of surprises, bugs, intentional weaknesses, adversaries, defenders, vendors, and users. Some software just got more lines of code instead of a decent audit or refactoring. Everything is turning smart, but no one knows what smart really means. Big Data is all the fashion, Big Knowledge still isn't. So there is ample opportunity for security research. And we haven't mentioned recent weaknesses such as Stack Clash or broken hyperthreading yet.
Strategy hasn't evolved much either. Most high profile attacks seem to contain a lot of cyber, originating from Russia, USA, Israel, North Korea, or China. The context matters, as do the agendas of all parties involved. A thorough and careful analysis can shape the digital defence of your future. This is why we like to discuss methods, incidents, and the role of intelligence in information security.
And then there is the scientific method. Sadly not all of security research is really research. Science is hard if you want to get it right. Full disclosure and defending your claims against certain vendors is one way of ensuring your findings are correct. Past DeepSec conferences featured presentations based on scientific publications. We like to foster proper information security research. This is why the 1st Reversing and Offensive-oriented Trends Symposium 2017 (ROOTS) will be co-hosted with DeepSec 2017.
If you have some research or content you wish to present before an international audience, then let us know by using the following Call for Papers form.
And remember; the motto for 2017 is Science First!
When airport security meets information security it's usually BSidesLondon time. It was a great experience. And since DeepSec sponsors the Rookie Track we had a very tough decision to make. It's really hard to pick a winner. A lot of presentations were excellent, and the presenters made the most out of the 15 minutes. The winner is Tha├Łs for her introduction to malware analysis by using satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). If you get the chance of seeing her presenting somewhere, take a seat and listen to her.
We also like to recommend Colette's presentation titled 'How the f**k do I get in? One woman's struggle to break into cyber security!'. Despite the title it was not a rant, it was a clear and concise summary of the state of affairs for women in technology. We hope to hear more about this, and we encourage you to ask Colette for a presentation in case you organise an event. We did.
The motto sharing is caring is often abused, and the context in which it is used varies wildly. Chris Kubecka explained in the keynote Freaky Leaks from a Chic Geek what her understanding is. Indeed leaks are all around us. And leaks are here to stay, given that networks, software, and systems are not as airtight as advertising wants us to believe. Plus leaks are also used wildly out of context. She addressed some important issues regarding disclosure and incident reporting (or vulnerability reporting, depending on how many already know about the weakness). It's amazing what people maintaining and ŌĆ×installingŌĆ£ industrial controls systems can and will do. Industry 4.0 and Smart Power Plants are anything but smartly designed or implemented. Her presentation was full of examples on how to deal with information about critical weaknesses. Make sure you think about implications before they happen, regardless on which side you are on.
We shared and cared a lot. Thanks to the BSidesLondon crew, all speakers, all trainers, and all the sponsors!
Quantum computing is a fashionable term these days. Some IT news articles are talking about post-quantum cryptography, qbits, and more quantum stuff. If you don't know how the terms relate to each other, what entangled states in quantum physics are, and what everything has to do with computing, then you will have a hard time figuring out what it means for you and your infrastructure. The relationship to cryptography is yet another matter best explored after you know the basics.
Using quantum effects in computing and cryptography is already done. The best example are some hardware random generators which use properties of, well, the hardware to harvest entropy. And then there is quantum key distribution (QKD). It is a method to ensure secure communication between two or more nodes. Vienna even had a working QKD network named SECOQC which was created in 2008.
So how can you learn more? Our friends at Golem.de stage a conference about quantum computing on 23 June 2017 in Berlin. The conference is aptly titled Dawn of the Quantum Era. Leading experts will explain about the current state of quantum computing, quantum communication and quantum cryptography.
In one intense conference day, IT decision makers and those, who are interested in the future will learn everything that's important about the very subject. Where does quantum mechanics stay and what has research so far brought to light? What is the current state of research in the development of quantum computers? What can quantum algorithms and quantum encryption do? And which challenges postquantity encryption has to face? These are just a few of the questions to be answered at the upcoming conference. Participants will also discuss which future technology is more promising: supercomputer or quantum computer.
Amongst others, Speakers include Prof. Dr. Vlatko Vedral from the University of Oxford as well as Tracy Northup from the University of Innsbruck, who holds the current quantum computer speed world record. Silicon Valley will be also represented: Will Zeng comes from the quantum startup Rigetti, in which known Venture capital investor Andreessen Horowitz has invested in recently. Stefan Filipp, one of the leading quantum researchers at IBM will also be present as a speaker.
The conference Dawn of the Quantum Era takes place on the 23rd of June 2017 at the Zoo Palace in Berlin. You can find the final programme on the conferenceŌĆÖs website as well as the biographies of all the speakers and short abstracts of their talks. Conference tickets are already available.
Biometrics has an irresistible attraction. Simply by mentioning the fact that you can measure parts (or surfaces) of the body and convert them to numbers a lot of people are impressed out of their mind. Literally. In theory biometric information serves as a second set of data to be used for any purposes. A common purpose is to use it for authentication. Most physical sources of biometric data are easily accessible. Fingers (for fingerprints), eyes (for your iris), limbs (for your veins), voice (for the Cloud), and other examples show this well. Where does the security come into play? Well, it doesn't.
For starters, passwords can be changed. Biometrics can't unless you have a transplant. In contrast to passwords biometrics can be faked. The biometric source can be copied. In most cases this is as easy as doing a scan and printing it again. The German Chaos Computer Club has repeatedly demonstrated that copies work extremely well. They used simple iris photographs (for gaining access to a Samsung Galaxy S8) and fingerprint copies (to overcome Apple Touch ID) in the past. Almost any multi-factor authentication beats this security record easily.
Furthermore the biometric check is based on a comparison of digital data sets. Algorithms compensate for variations during the measurement, i.e. the scan phase, of the body part used. Since no two measurements are alike, there is some room for errors. This can be exploited by adversaries. Think of it as trying to manipulate optical character recognition (OCR) by manipulating text and fonts. You can do this for voices, too. Recently a Canadian company was in the news, because they showed recreated voices of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. The source were samples from interviews and speeches.
So please don't use biometrics as a silver bullet to solve problems which can be solved more efficiently by other technologies. And don't use sensors designed to work for and in your living-room for critical security. In case you won't do this, we welcome you or your company as a show case at DeepSec 2017. The presentation title might even contain your name.
After the Wannacry malware wreaked havoc in networks, ticket vending machines, companies, and hospitals the clean-up has begun. This also means that the blame game has started. The first round of blame was distributed between Microsoft and the alleged inspiration for the code. The stance on vulnerabilities of security researchers is quite clear. Weaknesses in software, hardware, protocols, or design needs to be documented and published. This is the only way to address the problem and to give the defenders a chance to react. The discussion about how to deal with the process is ongoing and will most likely never come to a conclusion. What about the source of the attack?
Attribution is hard. Knowing who attacked has become increasingly difficult in the analogue world. Take any of the conflicts around the world and have a look. There is no clear picture of who did what exactly for which reason. When it comes to cyber warfare you basically have to deal with lots of disinformation. We have had many talks about the use of the Internet and other networks in digital skirmishes. Routing data via a different set of connections is the core property of the Internet. You cannot trace the trajectory of a projectile. You can only rely on the forensic analysis of the attack (and even this is disputed since forensic software can be manipulated) and on data you see in network interactions. Deception is the basic ingredient of any attack. The glorified open field battles where people run at each other screaming is not what you can expect from real situations.
There are speculations that Wannacry was launched by North Korea. Russia, China, and North Korea are the default origins any analysis starts with (the only exception being Stuxnet for obvious reasons). Most people forget that false flags operations are a common military tactic. There is an easy recipe to fake an attack. Want to look like APT28? No problem. Need a specific origin for your reconnaissance? That's what the cloud is for! You can also use the vast archive of malicious software as a starting point. The code, contrary to the truth, is out there.
Getting intelligence right is as hard as getting the attribution right. It's not impossible, but you have to keep this in mind when reading the news about incidents such as Wannacry or others. The last attack didn't even take advantage of the Internet of Things. Imagine that! We have just seen a glimpse of the future. If you want to prepare yourself for what's next, you need to get your intelligence right in addition to your security. Why not join us in September for DeepINTEL and think about strategies for the future?
Society and businesses increasingly rely on networked infrastructure. This is not news. Worms that used networks to spread to new hosts in order to infect them is also not news. Code Red did this back in 2001. There is a new worm going around. Its name is Wannacry, and it is allegedly based on published attack code developed by the NSA. The malicious software is delivered by email. After successful installation it infects the host and propagates to other systems by using probes to port 139/TCP, 445/TCP and 3389/TCP. It belongs to the class of ransomware, encrypting files and demanding ransom. Thousands of infected systems are still active. The attack is still ongoing. If you are in doubt if you have compromised systems within your network, we recommend taking a look at how to spot the malware.
The new ingredients of this worm are known vulnerabilities and network capabilities to spread near infected computers. This means that nearby hosts will be infected even if they did not receive the initial email with the malicious document. The patch for the exploited vulnerability is out since 14 March 2017. The code seems to be based on tools published by the Shadow Brokers in August 2016. Since the code has already been changed and uses different payloads, the threat will persist for a while. It's easy to blame the lack of upgrades, but upgrading can be quite difficult. Containing networked systems, filtering local network traffic (especially taking care of management access protocols), and keeping an eye out for an increase in scans works regardless of the weaknesses exploited.
The deeper problem has to do with how we handle vulnerabilities in software. Bugs need to the disclosed as early as possible. Developers and vendors do need a chance to fix their code. This is especially true for vulnerabilities (where the bug has been applied) and exploits (where the vulnerability has been refined to production status). There is also a connection to malicious software used in law enforcement, military operations, and intelligence organisations. Breaking into networks or computer systems works well if you possess knowledge about exploits no one else has. Wannacry is a good example of how this secret code endangers critical infrastructure. There have been reports that hospitals in the UK were hit by the worm. Back in 2012 fx talked about this very scenario in the keynote presentation (titled We Came In Peace ŌĆō They DonŌĆÖt: Hackers vs. CyberWar). The existence of 0-days put everyone at risk. This is why biological warfare does not work ŌĆō and we are dealing with a virus in the wild attacking networked systems as of now.
At DeepINTEL we will discuss strategic aspects of information security. This includes how to handle threats like Wannacry and how to counter these threats.
Testing products, production code, security measures, or the overall security of infrastructure is hard work. The typical needs in term of information technology for a company or an organisation has become a variety of components that need to be maintained and hardened against attacks. The devil is in the details. In order to find critical weaknesses you need decades of experience, a thorough understanding of the technologies in use, in-depth knowledge of processes that touch information technology, and a decent portion of creativity to come up with ways around obstacles. SEC Consult, our long-time sponsor, has all of this ŌĆō and more. They publish their findings and offer consulting for anyone needing extra security. Take a look at the House of Keys project, the IoT Inspector, or gaping holes in digital forensics software that allows to manipulate evidence.
SEC Consult is the leading consultant in the field of cyber and cyberspace application security within the German-speaking countries. The company with offices in Europe, Asia and North America specialises in the establishment of Information security management and certification support according to ISO27001, Cyber Defence, DDoS tests, external and internal security tests, secure software (development) and the gradual, sustainable improvement of the level of security. SEC Consult's customers include leading companies, authorities and organizations from various sectors of the private economy as well as the critical infrastructure.
Experts from SEC Consult will be present throughout the conference. If you want to get in touch for a chat, we encourage you to do so. They can tell you more about their published work, ongoing projects, and will share their view of critical infrastructure and how to protect it. We can also recommend to attend presentations by their researchers. You will learn a lot, and they are willing to share their opinion. Plus they can help you to attend DeepSec 2017 – contact them and ask for a sponsored ticket.
No event can be done with supporters, and so we welcome Digital Guardian as sponsor for the upcoming DeepSec 2017 conference! If you have data in your organisation, then you might be interested in talking to Digital Guardian's experts, because they know a lot about what data does, where it lives, what endpoints really are, how you protect it, and how you keep exclusive access to it. Since data is code on most computing architectures, there's a double benefit.
Digital Guardian is a next generation data protection platform purpose built to stop data theft. The Digital Guardian platform performs across the corporate network, traditional endpoints, mobile devices and cloud applications to make it easier to see and stop all threats to sensitive data. For more than 10 years, it has enabled data-rich organizations to protect their most valuable assets with an on premise deployment or an outsourced managed security program (MSP). Digital GuardianŌĆÖs unique data awareness and transformative endpoint visibility, combined with behavioral threat detection and response, enables you to protect data without slowing the pace of your business.
So if you want to protect your digital assets and still be able to work with them, you should take advantage of the opportunity of meeting the data protection experts at DeepSec 2017. They also have a contingent of sponsored tickets, so go and talk to them to make an appointment.
The first Reversing and Offensive-Oriented Trends Symposium (ROOTs) 2017 opens its call for papers. ROOTs is the first European symposium of its kind. ROOTS aims to provide an industry-friendly academic platform to discuss trends in exploitation, reversing, offensive techniques, and effective protections. Submissions should provide novel attack forms, describe novel reversing techniques or effective deployable defenses. Submissions can also provide a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art, and pinpoint promising areas that have not received appropriate attention in the past.
To facilitate interaction with industry, the ROOTs ticket will be valid for all DeepSec conference tracks on both days, including the industry tracks, and the DeepSec conference tickets for the industry track will be valid for ROOTs. The usual rules for academic discounts apply. Please contact the DeepSec staff or our sponsors for discount codes.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
The Call for Papers is open, and we welcome any kind of submissions. All submitted presentations will be reviewed by the programme committee consisting of the following persons.
Program chair: Sergey Bratus (Dartmouth College)
General chair: Edgar Weippl (TU Wien, SBA Research)
Co-General chair: Ren├® Pfeiffer (DeepSec)
Patroklos (argp) Argyroudis (CENSUS S.A.)
Jean-Philippe Aumasson (Kudelski Security, Switzerland)
Hebert Bos (V.U. Amsterdam)
Stephen Checkoway (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Gynvael Coldwind (Google Security Team)
Lucas Davi (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Thomas Dullien (Google Project Zero)
Aurelien Francion (EURECOM)
Mario Heiderich (Cure53)
Vasileios Kemerlis (Brown University)
Ren├® Mayrhofer (JKU Linz)
Marion Marschalek (BlackHoodie)
Collin Mulliner (Trifinite)
Marcus Niemietz (RUB)
Alexander Peslyak (Openwall)
Konrad Rieck (TU Braunschweig)
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (TU Darmstadt)
Sebastian Schinzel (FH M├╝nster)
Juraj Somorovsky (Hackmanit)
Filippo Valsorda (Cloudflare)
Edgar Weippl (TU Wien, SBA Research)
Fabian Yamaguchi (TU Braunschweig, LeftShift)
Stephano Zanero (University Politecnico di Milano)
Application for inclusion in ACM DL via the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) is pending. See ACM's details about author's rights.
The Call for Papers uses the Easychair CfP manager. All submissions must be sent until 5 August 2017. Authors will be notified by 15 September 2017. We need your camera-ready papers until 5 October 2017.
Submissions to ROOTS are not limited in page count, but their length should be commensurate with the results; 5-10 pages of two-column PDF using the sigconf template from https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. We encourage submissions of papers based on results previously presented at industry or hacker conferences, so long as the papers themselves have not been presented elsewhere. We also encourage Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) submissions.
If you have further questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
The Easter break is over. We didn't sleep (much), and we did not look for Easter eggs in software either. Instead we did a bit of work behind the scenes. DeepSec 2017 will have some more content due to the co-hosted ROOTs workshop. The full call for papers will be ready on 1 May 2017. We will publish the text here on this blog, and email it to interested researchers. In the meantime the DeepSec 2017 Call for Papers is waiting patiently for your submission.
In case you haven't noticed, the DeepSec and DeepINTEL ticket shops are online. Please book your ticket as early as possible! Every year so far we┬Āhad some people at our conference who were very sad┬Ābecause their┬Āfavourite training was not available. If you book early you'll help us to secure your favourite training. Instant messaging is a lot easier than the instant transport of a trainer halfway across Europe or the globe. We will inform you about the training submissions in advance, so that you can plan your education for the fourth quarter.
The preliminary schedule for DeepINTEL is ready. We will send it to interested parties via email and publish a shorter version on the DeepINTEL web site. Threat intelligence is as important as ever. We have some interesting topics for you.
Looking forward to see you in September and in November in Vienna!
Hopefully many of you know the Applied Crypto Hardening (ACH) project, also known as BetterCrypto.org. The project was announced at DeepSec 2013. The idea was (and is) to compile hands-on advice for system administrators, dev ops, developers, and others when it comes to selecting the right crypto configuration for an application. The BetterCrypto.org document covers far more protocols than HTTPS. OpenSSH, OpenVPN, IPsec, and more topics are described in the PDF guide. The project is run by volunteers. This is where you come in.
The ACH project needs more volunteers to keep going. New GNU/Linux distributions are around the corner (the apt store never sleeps). Some vendors really do upgrade their code base. Libraries change and bleed less. Algorithms get tested, improved, and re-evaluated. The field of cryptography is moving forward, as it should. So if you have some mathematics skills, know your way around configurations, like to work with text fragments and documents, and would like to help improving the crypto capabilities of the software around you, then there is a way to express yourself. Join the mailing list. Get a Github account or use you existing one. Send pull requests. Help with the reviews.
Just because some vendors and some developers haven't been fast asleep for the past four years, the effort to promote, test, and deploy solid cryptographic configurations does not happen automagically. It's not all about OpenSSL cipher strings. It is about all applications that use cryptography. Help with your skills. We do.
Plus you can even submit a talk for the DeepSec 2017 Call for Papers and talk about how you did things cryptographically right. We had some talks about this in the past. Don't be a pre-quantum crypto couch potato!
The ageing SS7 protocol has reached it's end of life. Security experts around the world have criticised vulnerabilities a long time ago. SS7 even facilitated unsolicited surveillance attacks. What's more, it┬Āhas its own talks at the annual Chaos Communication Congress ŌĆō which is a clear sign of fail if there is more than one presentation dealing with inherent design failures. It's time to put SS7 to rest. Since┬Āthe 1970s the requirements for signalling have clearly changed. It's not only about telephones any more.
SS8, its┬Āsuccessor, features a brand new design and fixes the many shortcomings of SS7. New technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, crowd routing, social signalling, full "tapping", and deep state connections are now part of the core functions. Furthermore, SS8 is completely in harmony with Big Data, because it offers a compressed metadata format for long-time storage (thus accommodating requirements of different countries all over the world). It had been secretly tested, and the deployment is planned to start at the end of 2017. The upgrade will be seamless and will be over by Christmas, as usual.
New features of SS8 include
The future of communication is looking bright again. An in-depth security analysis of SS8 will be given at DeepSec 2017 in November. If you regularly use telephones of any kind, then you might be interested in attending.
Changing code, layout or designs have something in common – deadlines. But you cannot rush creativity, and so the new design of the DeepSec web site took some time. The old design has served us well. We basically did not change much and used it since 2007. The new design follows the stickers we use for decoration at our conferences, the book cover of the DeepSec chronicles, and many other details we publish via documents┬Ā– all thanks to the creative mind of fx. So thanks a lot fx!
The content of our conference has also slightly changed. DeepSec 2017 will feature additional content, because we will introduce a third track filled with presentations from academic research. Given the fact-free discussions of information security and security in general, we would like to (re)introduce the scientific method into infosec. Finding flaws in software, hardware, protocols, devices, and many other parts of modern society requires solid lab work, repeatable experiments, and a sound documentation of the findings. This is why the motto of DeepSec 2017 is "Science First!".
Many of you are unaware that we are running two Call for Papers in parallel. Both presentations for DeepSec and DeepINTEL can be submitted. The process is slightly different.
Looking forward to meet you in person and listen to your presentations.


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A rep for Armstrong says the former professional cyclist 'has been offered the show each and every year since its inception.'
Turns out Lance Armstrong is one of the most-wanted celebrities for "Dancing with the Stars". Entertainment Weekly broke the news that the disgraced cyclist was offered to join the upcoming spring edition of the ABC reality show, but he passed on it.
Sources say the former athlete, who was recently stripped of his Tour de France titles due to doping allegation, is among several high-profile "big get" celebrities who are regularly asked to join the show. Confirming this, his representative states, "Lance has been offered the show each and every year since its inception. Although flattered he has passed on their generous offers."
Armstrong isn't the only one who turned down a spot on "DWTS". Lindsay Lohan was recently reported to have rejected a $550,000 offer from the dancing competition. Ann Romney has also passed on an offer to join the veteran reality show, though she previously declared to be a big fan of it.
Armstrong grabbed the headlines in the past few weeks with his "no-holds-barred interview" with Oprah Winfrey. During the chat, he addressed his doping scandal, admitting that he used EPO, testosterone and HGH to enhance his performance during the race.


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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote: >> BTW, while we are on the subject: hasn't this split completely broken >> the statistics about backend-initiated writes? > Yes, it seems to have done just that. So I went to fix this in the obvious way (attached), but while testing it I found that the number of buffers_backend events reported during a regression test run barely changed; which surprised the heck out of me, so I dug deeper. The cause turns out to be extremely scary: ForwardFsyncRequest isn't getting called at all in the bgwriter process, because the bgwriter process has a pendingOpsTable. So it just queues its fsync requests locally, and then never acts on them, since it never runs any checkpoints anymore. This implies that nobody has done pull-the-plug testing on either HEAD or 9.2 since the checkpointer split went in (2011-11-01), because even a modicum of such testing would surely have shown that we're failing to fsync a significant fraction of our write traffic. Furthermore, I would say that any performance testing done since then, if it wasn't looking at purely read-only scenarios, isn't worth the electrons it's written on. In particular, any performance gain that anybody might have attributed to the checkpointer splitup is very probably hogwash. This is not giving me a warm feeling about our testing practices. As far as fixing the bug is concerned, the reason for the foulup is that mdinit() looks to IsBootstrapProcessingMode() to decide whether to create a pendingOpsTable. That probably was all right when it was coded, but what it means today is that *any* process started via AuxiliaryProcessMain will have one; thus not only do bgwriters have one, but so do walwriter and walreceiver processes; which might not represent a bug today but it's pretty scary anyway. I think we need to fix that so it's more directly dependent on the auxiliary process type. We can't use flags set by the respective FooMain() functions, such as am_bg_writer, because mdinit is called from BaseInit() which happens before reaching those functions. My suggestion is that bootstrap.c ought to make the process's AuxProcType value available and then mdinit should consult that to decide what to do. (Having done that, we might consider getting rid of the "retail" process-type flags am_bg_writer etc.) regards, tom lane
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Keeping her locks in tip top shape, Ashley Tisdale made a trip to the Andy Lecompte Salon in Los Angeles, CA on Tuesday (February 11).
Looking edgy chic, the former "High School Musical" star sported black leather pants, a matching jacket and leopard print shoes as she avoided the nearby shutterbugs.
Getting a bit of a boost for the start of her week, Ashley Tisdale stopped at Ed's Coffee Shop in West Hollywood on Monday (February 10).
The "Scary Movie 5" star layered up in a black jacket, gray hoodie, blakc pants, and black Uggs as she headed back outside.
Enjoying a day of self-pampering in West Hollywood, Ashley Tisdale swung by Andy LeCompte Salon in order to touch up her lavish locks.
Stepping out with a smile, the 28-year-old wore a cute gray overcoat, loose-fitting tee and black torn skinnies, showcasing her beautiful flowing highlights.
Treating herself to some retail therapy, Ashley Tisdale stepped out in Los Angeles on Tuesday (February 4).
The "High School Musical" babe donned a black blazer and shoes with a striped top as she made her way back to her vehicle.
Beating the humpday slump with a romantic date, Ashley Tisdale and Christopher French showed up at Craig's Restaurant in West Hollywood last night (January 29).
The "Hellcats" hottie and her handsome rocker fiancé ducked out of the private exit but unfortunately still had to deal with shutterbugs as they hopped in their car and sped off.
Stepping out for some promotional fun, Zac Efron showed up at the Los Angeles premiere of "That Awkward Moment" last night (January 27).
Joined by his costars Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan and Imogen Poots, the "Hairspray" hunk looked handsome as he hammed it up outside the Regal Cinemas LA Live prior to the screening.
Including the face of one of her style icons in her outfit, Ashley Tisdale had a business breakfast at Toast in West Hollywood on Tuesday (January 21).
The "High School Musical" star wore a light leather jacket, white T-shirt with Kate Moss on it, and gray skinnies as she left her outing with fashion blogger Julie Sarinana.
The couple that sweats together gets together, and Ashley Tisdale and Christopher French enjoyed a workout session with their personal trainer in West Hollywood on Wednesday (January 15).
Sporting workout gear and sunglasses, the "Hellcats" hottie and her handsome fiancé made their way back to their car as Ashley snacked on some fruit.
Enjoying a mild winter's stroll, Ashley Tisdale and Christopher French showed up on Hollywood Boulevard on Tuesday evening (January 14).
Walking hand-in-hand, the "High School Musical" stunner and her handsome fiancé glanced at the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on their way to see "Gimme Shelter" at the Los Angeles premiere.
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June 5, 2013
Media Release
National's Employment Changes Mean a Low Wage Future For New Zealand
National's plans to reduce Kiwis' rights at work will mean a low wage future for New Zealand, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is warning.
The Employment Relations Amendment Bill passed its First Reading in Parliament this evening with support from National, ACT and United Future.
EPMU director of organising Rachel Mackintosh says the effect of the changes will be to reduce New Zealanders' pay and conditions.
"These are radical changes that will make it harder for Kiwis to get a better deal at work. We know from the last time National did this that the result will be lower wages, worse conditions and a growing wage gap with Australia.
"The simple fact is these policies have failed working families time and again. At some point this Government needs to realise cutting wages and removing our rights at work is a recipe for economic failure and growing inequality.
"Kiwis deserve better than National's promise of low wages and endless job insecurity. We will campaign to stop these changes and build support for fairer employment laws that provide every worker with a safe workplace, a living wage and a real say at work."
changes in the Bill will allow employers to:
• Refuse to negotiate a collective agreement with their employees
• Pay new workers less than the rate in the collective agreement
• Opt out of industry agreements in order to undercut their competitors on wages
• Deny workers meal and rest breaks
• Reduce the wages and conditions of vulnerable workers such as cleaners when taking over a new contract.
• Dock the pay of workers taking partial strike action
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The broker says it also hasn't changed its forecast in response to QBE's recent agreements to acquire the general insurance businesses of HSBC in Argentina and Hang Seng Bank in Hong Kong, with completion expected mid-2012.
The $420 million purchase price includes a 10-year distribution agreement through HSBC in Argentina and Hang Seng Bank.
The broker says the bolt-on acquisitions were relatively small and already factored into the company's fiscal 2012 growth guidance.
A price target of $12.50 a share is in place.
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Factors affecting 39K NMR detectability in rat tissue
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In this study we have found that NMR detectability of 39K in rat thigh muscle may be substantially higher (up to 100% oftotal tissue potassium) than values previously reported of around 40%. The signal was found to consist of two superimposed components, one broad and one narrow, of approximately equal area. Investigations involving improvements in spectral parameters such as signal-to-noise ratio and baseline roll, together with computer simulations of spectra, show that the quality of the spectra has a major effect on the amount of signal detected, which is largely due to the loss of detectability of the broad signal component. In particular, lower-field spectrometers using conventional probes and detection methods generally have poorer signal-to-noise and worse baseline roll artifacts, which make detection of a broad component of the muscle signal difficult.
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Hello my name is Carrie, I used to frequent this board...probably 10 years ago LOL. I'm 40 years old & I have 2 big girls, 12 & 10 and I used to have a busy WAHM cloth diaper business when they were young. Since then I got divorced, got back into culinary world and became a chef, opened a Farm to Table restaurant that I ran for 3 years and sadly went out of business last october after our second week without power and losing all our food, last fall (hurricane irene and snow storm albert or whatever they named it)
I got remarried this past July and my wedding present was a suprise pregnancy (found out 1 week b4 wedding)! We were planning on TTC and I had fertility problems with my girls so it was quite a blessing even if it meant I had a heck of a time squeezing my boobs into my wedding dress and I didn't get all those yummy cocktails I created for the wedding LOL.
So now my little guy is 9 weeks, had a little rough start with a cord wrapped around his neck - spent first 36hrs in NICU but recovered fully and is doing awesome, breastfeeding went fabulous from the start, he's gone from 7lbs 4oz to 11lbs now and we are starting to settle into live with a baby again. What a difference, I'm used to mostly sweet girls who you tuck in, kiss goodnight and walk away and do your own thing! LOL It's a blessing in disguise that I am no longer working 15hrs as a chef and business owner!
I am trying to figure out how the heck to have time to cook, I sell prepared foods, gelato and gourmet popsicles at a very busy CT farmer's market and also want to sell some artistic embroidered diapers. Getting anything done has been quite challenging!!!!
Anyway, looking forward to some good conversations here! I've been posting on a more mainstream site and realized it gets frustrated to listen to a lot of the conversations about disposable diapers, starting rice cereal and sleep training...
Hi! Welcome back! I live in SE CT and I am in the restaurant biz as well. Gelato Congrats on your noob!
Welcome back! Your story sounds really familiar, were you the mama behind the original SugarPeas? If so, I LOVED your diapers and covers, especially the side snap fitteds! I used to work at Papaya Patch in West Hartford and we sold them there... used them on my last two kids. Sorry to hear about your restaurant, this fall was so hard on so many businesses. Hope to see you around one of these days... is it the Coventry Market you sell at? My business will be there in September as a market sponsor, it's such an awesome farmer's market! :)
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Ha ha yes I created Sugar Peas, that's so funny someone is still around from then! Your name actually sounds familiar. I'm sad Papaya Patch is no longer around when I have a baby again! I just googled your biz name, sounds very interesting! No shop right, just online? I could definitely use some help with babywearing.... Silas goes boob crazy (even if he's just eaten) as soon as I put him in sling and ends up fussing and crying until I nurse him, which is not always convenient lol
I do vend at Coventry Market! We've done the winter market for 2 yrs and this will be our 2nd summer market, it's a wonderful community amongst all the vendors as well as a great busy place to sell food ;)
Boudicca - cool! What part of southeast CT? I'm near UConn Storrs
I'm down in Pawcatuck, right over the border from Westerly :)
ETA: You made Sugar Peas?! I loved those! I only had one cover and I killed them because I had no idea how to properly care for wool and I shrank them. They were awesome while they lasted though! And they live on because I couldn't part with them so I turned them into a little pouch for my knitting notions
lol very cool. i sold it when my dd was 4 and it got too big for me to enjoy, doesn't seem like they kept up the momentum sadly, I still had some wool in bins I made a bunch of stuff for my little guy. I'm glad to hear you repurposed it!
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Ceres Liner Bus – Dumaguete to Cebu City
The Ceres Liner bus company runs between Cebu city and Dumaguete 4 times a day.
Your bus takes a short hop on a ferry between the islands of Cebu and Negros.
There is an additional fare of about 50 peso for boat trip.
You get off the bus for the trip across the open water and sit in the upper deck on the boat.
It is a fairly quick crossing and you don't have to worry about making a bus connection once you are across the water.
Maayo Shipping – youtube video of ferry running between Cebu and Negros islands
Ceres Liner update – Dec 2007
New Schedule
The Ceres Liner bus goes direct from Dumaguete to Cebu 7 times a day for 250 pesos including the ferry.
New Ceres Lines bus schedule
Dumaguete City to Cebu City:
4:15 AM Air Con
5:45 AM Air Con
8:45 AM Air Con
10:30 AM Non Air Con
11:45 AM Air Con via Barili
12:50 PM Air Con
2:15 PM Air Con
New Ceres Lines bus schedule
Cebu City to Dumaguete
5:30 AM Air Con via Barili
6:00 AM Air Con
7:00 AM Non Air Con
10:00 AM Air Con
1:00 PM Air Con
3:00 PM Air Con
6:00 PM Air Con
This is the Ceres south terminal in Cebu City on Del Rosario St.
If you are headed to Moalboal take a bus going through Barilli. They leave at least once an hour and the fare is 89 pesos. If you take one marked "Economy" the fare will be 50 pesos.
Occasionally they have a promotion in order to make tougher competition for Rough Rider, the new line of red buses that take the same route.
This is also the bus you will take if bound for Kawasan Falls past the town of Badian.
If you plan to stay in Moalboal you can catch the bus south bound at the market when you are ready to leave again.
Take a bus to Bato and get off at the pier where you can catch the pump boat or the fast ferry across to Negros.
If you are planning to go to Malapascua Island off the north end of Cebu you will leave from the "North" terminal in Mandaue City. Take it to Maya where you will catch a pump boat to Malapascua. There are no Ceres buses that go between the south and the north terminal. Take a cab.
update aug 2008 – The cost regular fare from Cebu City to Moalboal is now been raised to 109 pesos one way.
SuperCat schedule May 2008
Cebu to Ormoc 6:00am, 11:35am, 5:10Ppm
Ormoc to Cebu 8:45am, 2:20pm, 7:55pm
Cebu to Tabilaran 8:00am, 12:00pm, 4::00pm
Tagbiaran to Cebu 10:00am, 2:00pm, 6:00pm
one way Ormoc 650 pesos
one way Tagbilaran 400 pesos
Roble Shipping ferry Catbalogan to Cebu City – this ferry runs between Cebu and Samar island
The Roble ferry makes a weekly trip between Catbalogan Samar and Cebu City, Cebu. It leaves Friday nights at 8pm and gets to Cebu around 5am on Saturday mornings.You can take motorbikes but there is no loading ramp for larger vehicles.
always check the newspaper for the most recent schedule
Roble Shipping schedule May 2008
Cebu to Hilongos
4:30pm except Thurs – My Ormoc Star
8:50pm daily – My Beautiful Stars
Hilongos to Cebu
11:00am daily – My Beautiful Stars
10:30pm except Thurs – My Ormoc Star
Cebu to Ormoc
10:00pm daily – My Wonderful Stars
Ormoc to Cebu
11:00am daily – My Wonderful Stars
Cebu to Catbalogan
8:00pm every Thursday – My Ormoc Stars
Catbalogan to Cebu
8:00pm every Friday – My Ormoc Stars
Gothong Lines schedule May 2008
Cebu to Manila
Monday 6:00pm – Subic Bay 1
Wednesday 10:00am – Cagayan Bay 1
Thursday 7:00pm – Subic Bay 1
Manila to Cebu
Sunday 8:00am – Subic Bay 1
Wedenesday 8:00am – Subic Bay 1
Friday 6:00am – Cagayan Bay 1
Cebu to Ozamis Sun/Tues/Thurs 7:00pm – Butuan Bay 1
Ozamis to Cebu Mon/Wed/Fri 8:00pm – Butuan Bay 1
Cebu to Iligan Sun/Tues/Thurs 7:00pm – Butuan Bay 1
Iligan to Cebu Mon/Wed/Fri 4:00pm – Butuan Bay 1
Cebu to Cagayan Mon/Sat 8:00pm – Cagayan Bay 1
Cagayan to Cebu Sun/Tues 8:00pm – Cagayan Bay 1
Cebu to Butuan Thurs 7:00pm – Subic Bay
Butuan to Manila Fri 2:00 pm – Subic Bay 1
Super Ferry
Cebu to Manila – Mon 8:45am, Wed 5:15pm, Thurs 10:45am
Manila to Cebu – Thurs 7:45pm, Fri 5:15pm, Sat 6:45pm
Cebu to Cagayan – Fri 10:45pm
Cagayan to Cebu – Wed 2:45pm
Cebu to Cotabato – Sun 9:45pm
Cotabato to Cebu – Tues 10:45 am
Cebu to Iligan – Sat 8:45pm
Iligan to Cebu – Sun 7:45pm
Cebu to Nasipit – Fri 10:45pm
Nasipit to Cebu – Wed 10:45pm
Cebu to Ozamiz – Sat 8:45pm
Ozamis to Cebu – Sun 3:15pm
Cebu to Zamboanga – Sun 9:45pm
Zamboanga to Cebu – Tues 10:15pm
Cebu Ferries
Cebu to Cagayan Mon/Wed/Sat 8:00am
Cebu to Ozasiz Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat 7:00am
Cebu to Nasipit Tues/Sun 7:00pm
Cebu to Iligan Mon/Wed 7:00pm
Cebu to Ormoc Mon/Wed 8:00am, Fri 12noon
Cagayan to Cebu Tues/Fri 8:00pm Sun 9:00pm
Ozamiz to Cebu Tues/Thurs 7:00pm
Nasipit to Cebu Mon/Thurs 7:00pm
Iligan to Cebu Tues/Thurs 4:00pm
Ormoc to Cebu Mon/Wed 2:00pm Fri 12noon
Leyte to Bohol Ferry – youtube video of the ferry that runs between Bato, Leyte and Ubay, Bohol
Tugboats in Cebu – video of the waterfront in Cebu City
Cokaliong Shipping
Lite Shipping ferry – youtube video of the Lite Shipping ferry that runs between Cebu City and Ormoc City
Lite Shipping – This ferry travels between Cebu City and Ormoc every day except for Fridays. Always check the newspapers for the most recent updated schedule.
Telephone Numbers listed in the May 8 2009 Freeman Newspaper
Roble Shipping Inc
43-C Escario Extn., Cebu City
Tel.# 255-3871 * 254-0583 * 232-2236 * 232-2263
Fax# 416-6117
Lite Shipping
14 G.L. Lavilles St., comer M.J. Cuenco Ave., Tinago, Cebu City
Tel.# (032) 255-1721 to 26/256-1410
Fax# (032) 255-1724/414-9990
Freight & Passage D.L. (032) 254-0383
Super Shuttle Ferry
Asian Marine Transport Corporation
38 Gorordo Avenue Cebu City
Tel.# (032) 2323150, 2310639, 3455581, 3455582, 2344121
Fax# (032) 2335733, 3455583
Aleson Shipping Lines, Inc.
117-R. Palma Street, Cebu City
Tel.# 255-5673, 255-7157, 253-1934
Fax# 255-6277
Freight: 232-7400
SuperCat Termenal, Pier 4, North Reclamation Area, Cebu City
Passage: 233-7000
Cebu Ferries
Text: 0918-9942421
Weesam Express
Pier 4 North Reclamation Area, Cebu City
Tel.# (032) 412-9562 * 231-7737
Island Shipping Corporation
15-2 V. Sotto St., cor. McArthur Blvd., Cebu City
Tel.# (032) 422-6329/31; 460-5608; 435-2078
Fax# (032) 422-6330
Ocean Fast Ferries Inc.
Pier 1, CPA Building, Cebu City, Philippines, 6000
Tel.# 255-7560
Fax# 255-0115
Trans-Asia Shipping Lines, Inc.
M.J. Cuenco cor Osmena Blbd., Cebu City
Passage: 2546491 loc. 222 & 236; 255-7989
Cargo: 2549782., 2533271
Fax# 2557899
George & Peter Lines, Inc.
GP Bldg., Arellano Blvd., corner V. Gullas Ext., Cebu City (Pier 2)
Freight: 254-5404
Fax# 254-0679
Passage: 254-6252 * 254-5154
Cokaliong Shipping Lines, Inc.
Don Serging Osmena Avenue, North Reclamation Area, Cebu City
Tel.# 2327211-18
Fax# 2316825, 2316826
Carlos A. Gothong Lines, Inc.
Pier 7, Gothong Wharf, F.F. Cruz, Mandaue City
Tel.# 232-9998 loc. 103, 310 * 346-0200
Freight: 0922-8071085 * 0922-5372184
Passage: 0923-3426131 * 0922-5334509 * 0922-4019196
Sulpicio Lines, Inc.
Sulpicio Go St., Reclamation Area, Cebu City
Tel.# 232-5361 to 79
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50 Cent Stirs Controversy By Posting Bizarre Pictures Of Blue Ivy Carter
January 31, 2012 by staff
50 Cent Stirs Controversy By Posting Bizarre Pictures Of Blue Ivy Carter, 50 Cent has courted controversy by posting some bizarre joke pictures of Beyonce and Jay-Z's new baby daughter Blue Ivy Carter.
The rapper, who releases his next album 'Black Magic' in the summer, tweeted from his account Twitter.com/50Cent: "Y'all play too much congratulations to Jay-Z and Beyonce baby. Blue Ivy Carter is gorgeous." He then tweeted a series of photoshopped pictures of Jay-Z's face superimposed onto a newborn baby.
50 Cent has hit out at Jay-Z a number of times in the past, even going as far as to say that no one knew who the rapper was before he began dating Beyonce and promised that he would steal the former Destiny's Child singer away from him.
The rapper is also no stranger to bizarre Twitter outbursts, revealing last week that he would like to be a bird. He wrote of this: "This morning I was looking out the window. I saw a bird fly right onto the ledge. It felt like he was looking right at me I'd like to [be] a bird so I could fly and sh*t on the world. Then you all could say 50 shat on me. That's luck right? Then don't wipe the sh*t off."
The rapper had earlier prophesised his own death, writing that he does not believe he has much longer to live.
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Apia (AFP) Jul 18, 2006
More than half of all mangroves could disappear from some Pacific islands before the end of the century, threatening fisheries and making islands more vulnerable to storms and tsunamis, a UN report said Tuesday.
Rising sea levels associated with climate change, pollution and development are all threatening mangroves -- a variety of tree which grows in tidal areas of tropical and sub-tropical regions.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) study said American Samoa, Fiji, Tuvalu, and Micronesia were expected to suffer the worst loss of mangroves.
"There are many compelling reasons for fighting climate change -- the threats to mangroves in the Pacific, and by inference across other low lying parts of the tropics, underline yet another reason to act," Achim Steiner, UNEPs executive director, said in a statement.
Pacific coral atolls, some of which rise about five metres (yards) above sea level, are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels caused by climate change.
"But there is also an urgent need to help vulnerable communities adapt to the sea level rise which is already under way," Steiner said.
The report recommends reducing pollution to improve the health of existing mangroves, as well as restoring lost or degraded mangrove wetlands.
Mangroves are nurseries for fish, filter coastal pollution and are key sources of timber and construction materials, the report said.
Mangroves are also important to the health of other important ecosystems, including coral reefs and seagrass beds.
They also provide protection against storms and waves. Wave energy may be reduced by 75 percent by going through 200 metres of mangrove forest.
Roughly half the worlds mangrove area has been lost since 1900 as a result of development, with 35 percent of the losses occurring in the past two decades, the report said.
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Paris (ESA) Jun 11, 2014
Three NASA science instruments aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft, which is set to become the first to orbit a comet and land a probe on its nucleus, are beginning observations and sending science data back to Earth.
Launched in March 2004, Rosetta was reactivated in January 2014 after a record 957 days in hibernation. Composed of an orbiter and lander, Rosetta's objective is to arrive at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August to study the celestial object up close in unprecedented detail and prepare for landing a probe on the comet's nucleus in November.
Rosetta's lander will obtain the first images taken from a comet's surface and will provide the first analysis of a comet's composition by drilling into the surface. Rosetta also will be the first spacecraft to witness at close proximity how a comet changes as it is subjected to the increasing intensity of the sun's radiation.
Observations will help scientists learn more about the origin and evolution of our solar system and the role comets may have played in seeding Earth with water, and perhaps even life.
"We are happy to be seeing some real zeroes and ones coming down from our instruments, and cannot wait to figure out what they are telling us," said Claudia Alexander, Rosetta's U.S. project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
"Never before has a spacecraft pulled up and parked next to a comet. That is what Rosetta will do, and we are delighted to play a part in such a historic mission of exploration."
Rosetta currently is approaching the main asteroid belt located between Jupiter and Mars. The spacecraft is still about 300,000 miles (500,000 kilometers) from the comet, but in August the instruments will begin to map its surface.
The three U.S. instruments aboard the spacecraft are the Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO), an ultraviolet spectrometer called Alice, and the Ion and Electron Sensor (IES). They are part of a suite of 11 science instruments aboard the Rosetta orbiter.
MIRO is designed to provide data on how gas and dust leave the surface of the nucleus to form the coma and tail that gives comets their intrinsic beauty. Studying the surface temperature and evolution of the coma and tail provides information on how the comet evolves as it approaches and leaves the vicinity of the sun.
Alice will analyze gases in the comet's coma, which is the bright envelope of gas around the nucleus of the comet developed as a comet approaches the sun. Alice also will measure the rate at which the comet produces water, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. These measurements will provide valuable information about the surface composition of the nucleus.
The instrument also will measure the amount of argon present, an important clue about the temperature of the solar system at the time the comet's nucleus originally formed more than 4.6 billion years ago.
IES is part of a suite of five instruments to analyze the plasma environment of the comet, particularly the coma. The instrument will measure the charged particles in the sun's outer atmosphere, or solar wind, as they interact with the gas flowing out from the comet while Rosetta is drawing nearer to the comet's nucleus.
NASA also provided part of the electronics package for the Double Focusing Mass Spectrometer, which is part of the Swiss-built Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA) instrument.
ROSINA will be the first instrument in space with sufficient resolution to be able to distinguish between molecular nitrogen and carbon monoxide, two molecules with approximately the same mass. Clear identification of nitrogen will help scientists understand conditions at the time the solar system was formed.
U.S. scientists are partnering on several non-U.S. instruments and are involved in seven of the mission's 21 instrument collaborations. NASA's Deep Space Network is supporting ESA's Ground Station Network for spacecraft tracking and navigation.
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Greensburg Salem freshman medals at PIAA cross country meet
Riley Kwiatowski's first trip to the PIAA cross country championship at the Parkview Cross Country Course in Hershey can be described as a success.
The Greensburg Salem freshman was the only runner from Westmoreland County to return home with a medal after placing 25th in the Class AA race.
Greensburg Salem finished 13th as a team, 14 points behind WPIAL Class AA champion Mars. Greensburg Salem did it without one of its top runners, freshman Rachel Rossi, who became ill prior to the race and didn't compete.
"We did well," Greensburg Salem coach Nathan Snider said. "Rachel was a big reason we finished second in the WPIAL championship. She ran a great race. We probably would have been able to defeat Mars with her."
But with five of the top eight runners returning, Snider said there is no reason why the team can't return to the PIAA championship in 2014.
Back are Kwiatowski, Rossi, Hadley Ankrum, Mackenzie Tressler and Katie Austad. The seniors are Laura Rosner, who finished 35th, Gina Mattei and Sarah Kolar.
"Riley ran well," Snider said. "The course is challenging and the environment is different here.
"I hope being familiar with the course will help her and the underclassmen next season. I expect the five underclassmen will be strong; we just need a couple others to pick it up."
Snider said being able to jump over Moon in the WPIAL championships was big because Moon had beaten them in three previous meets.
"Going into the WPIAL championships, we knew we had a chance if we ran well," Snider said. "They did a great job."
Paul Schofield is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at email@example.com or via Twitter @Schofield_Trib.