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Hackers to demo a $20 iPhone-sized gadget that zombifies cars

Lisa Vaas
Naked Security
Fri, 14 Feb 2014 00:00 UTC
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At Black Hat Asia next month, two Spanish security researchers are going to show a palm-sized device that costs less than $20 to build from off-the-shelf, untraceable parts and that, depending on the car model, can screw with windows, headlights and even the truly scary, make-you-crash bits: i.e., steering and brakes.

The upcoming demo, colorfully titled "DUDE, WTF IN MY CAN!", is being given by Javier Vazquez-Vidal and Alberto Garcia Illera.

Forbes's Andy Greenberg spoke to the researchers for his writeup of the technology behind the upcoming demo. The hacking tool works by bypassing the security of a modern vehicle's Controller Area Network, aka the CAN bus. The tool hooks up to a car via four wires, allowing an attacker to then take over a car remotely.
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Nuke

New TEPCO report shows damage to Fukushima Daichii Unit 3 fuel pool MUCH worse than that at Unit 4


Fairewinds.org
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:00 UTC
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Damage in Unit 4

As the eyes of the world have been focused on the Unit 4's removal of spent fuel,
TEPCO released a report entitled, TEPCO's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Roadmap, that contained some astounding information regarding Unit 3. Follow Fairewinds Energy's Arnie Gundersen as he shows you the 35-ton refueling bridge that fell in the Unit 3 spent fuel pool during the Unit 3 detonation explosion. Do the math. The bottom line here is that TEPCO has just acknowledged that at least 50-tons of rubble has fallen on top of and into the spent fuel pool in Unit 3. What does this 50-ton pile of debris mean to the Unit 3 spent fuel pool and its cleanup?
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MIB

Psychopathic British veteran murdered four year-old twin boy in his bed


Yorkshire Post
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:57 UTC
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Anwar Rosser
A PSYCHOPATH has been given a whole life sentence for the "savage" and "sadistic" murder of a four-year-old twin boy from West Yorkshire who was attacked as he slept in his own bed.

Former soldier Anwar Daniel Rosser stabbed little Riley Turner 30 times after Riley's mum Sharon Smith and her boyfriend Guy Earwaker allowed him to stay at her house in Keighley, last January.

A court heard that Riley's mum woke at around 4.30am and was horrified to find Rosser curled up in a ball next to her bed - with four knives, including a brown-handled one which he had stolen from the pub where he worked as a part-time chef and used to stab little Riley.

Twin Riley was found semi-naked in his bedroom by his step-father who raised the alarm, while Rosser waited downstairs to "hear the devastated reaction" of Riley's parents.
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Attention

Sixth major train derailment in five weeks: 4,000 gallons of oil spilled in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania


Russia Today
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:27 UTC
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© Reuters / Jason CohnEmergency personnel examine the wreckage of a train derailment near Vandergrift, Pennsylvania February 13, 2014.
A 120-car train making its way across Pennsylvania derailed Thursday morning, spilling thousands of gallons of oil and alarming observers who have called for stricter safety standards on trains hauling hazardous material.

The train is owned by the New Jersey-based Norfolk Southern Corp -- company officials told Reuters that 21 tank cars went off the tracks at a turn near the Kiskiminetas River in Vandergrift, a small town in western Pennsylvania.

Nineteen of the cars contained crude oil while the other two held liquefied petroleum gas. Three of the 19 cars spilled as a result of the crash. Company officials maintained that the leaks were plugged but refused to say how many gallons of oil had spilled. Sources told the local WTAE-TV that an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 gallons had escaped the tanks.

"It's contained," said Norfolk Southern spokesman Dan Stevens. "The hazmat crews for the railroad are on site and will be taking care of that situation."

Comment: See the following for other recent train derailments:

Yet another major train derailment: 32 railcars carrying gas explode in Russia

Car-sized boulder breaks off mountain in French Alps, smashes into first carriage and leaves train dangling over steep embankment - 2 dead, 10 injured

Flying drone captures amazing footage of train derailed by shock landslide in Italy

Second Canadian train derailment within a week

CN train carrying crude oil derailed, on fire near Plaster Rock

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Airport security confiscates Toy Story doll's gun

Andrew Johnson
nationalreview.com
Wed, 12 Feb 2014 04:35 UTC
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Another gun-wielding toy has had its weapon seized by airport security. After a cowboy sock monkey Rooster Monkburn had his tiny harmless weapon seized last year, a Woody doll underwent similar probe at London's Heathrow Airport.

Healthrow traveler John Hazen posted a picture of his son's figurine to the social-media website Reddit on Tuesday showing a security official removing the doll's gun. "At Heathrow, security just confiscated his 'weapon,' keep the world safe boys,"​ Hazen wrote on the site. The doll does not usually come armed with gun - it was an accessory the family added.

A Heathrow representative did not confirm whether the gun was confiscated but said if the seizure did occur, it would be "a bit overzealous," according to the Huffington Post.

Hazen said that he brings the Woddy doll with him when he travels for work and sends pictures of it perched at different locations around the world to his son before going to bed.
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Sheriff

Video surfaces of BART officer repeatedly using stun gun on passenger

Christin Ayers
CBS San Francisco
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:35 UTC
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© CBSA BART passenger shot this video of police on the scene when an officer uses a stun gun on a passenger at the San Bruno station on January 29, 2014.
Video has been obtained by KPIX 5 showing a BART police officer who repeatedly used a stun gun to subdue a passenger in front of other riders.

A woman who witnessed the incident, who did not want to go on camera, told KPIX 5 the man was harmless and that the officer used the stun gun for no reason.

The video, which was taken on the evening of January 29th, begins with the BART officer giving the man a stern warning on a train at the San Bruno station.

"Sir, get off the train. Get off the train, Sir!" the officer said.
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Eye 1

OJ Simpson 'goes on hunger strike in prison to die‏' - pity ploy?


Daily Mail, UK
Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:07 UTC
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'Defeated': O.J. Simpson, pictured in court last year, is reportedly refusing to eat and wants to die.
OJ Simpson has gone on hunger strike in prison, saying, 'I used to live my way, and now I'm going to die my way,' sources have claimed.

The jailed former football star, who is serving out a kidnapping, assault and robbery sentence in a Nevada prison, is reportedly so depressed that he wants to 'just sit down in a corner and die'.

Sources spoke to the National Enquirer about Simpson's hunger strike and worsening health. His attorneys have yet to respond to a request for comment.

The source claimed that Simpson, 66, who is eligible for parole in 2017 after having an appeal for a new trial turned down last year, wanted to die so that his children would be able to get his millions.
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Cult

'Scientology minders were with me every day for TWO solid years': John Travolta reveals how cult kept their hooks in him after son's death


Mail Online
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 03:24 UTC
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John Travolta has revealed that he was assigned round-the-clock Scientology minders after the death of his teenage son four years ago.

The 59-year-old Hollywood star was accompanied by representatives from his church every day for two years in order to help him through the ordeal.

Jett Travolta died at the age of 16, in January 2009, after suffering a seizure in the Travolta family holiday home in the Bahamas and hitting his head on the bath.
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Sheriff

Support for death penalty drops among Americans

Michael Lipka
Pew Research Center
Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:59 UTC
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Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee announced Tuesday that his state will not use the death penalty while he's in office. In neighboring Oregon, Gov. John Kitzhaber made a similar move in 2011, and last year, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper issued an executive order halting an impending execution, and said there was "a legitimate question whether we as a state should be taking lives."

While a majority of Americans (55%) favor the death penalty for persons convicted of murder, according to a 2013 Pew Research survey, that number has declined significantly over the last two decades. In 1996, about three-quarters of the U.S. public (78%) favored capital punishment. Meanwhile, the share of those saying they oppose the death penalty has risen from 18% in 1996 to 37% in 2013.
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Syringe

Belgium approves assisted suicide for minors


Deutsche Welle
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:50 UTC
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The Belgian parliament has voted to allow children access to assisted suicide. Despite strong opposition from religious organizations and some doctors, the legislation had enjoyed widespread popular support.
The vote on Thursday by Belgium's House of Representatives removed all age restrictions on the right of the incurably sick to end their lives, a vote that has caused considerable controversy.

Ahead of the vote, Socialist Senator Philippe Mahoux, the author of Belgium's 2002 "right to die" legislation and himself a doctor, called euthanasia "the ultimate gesture of humanity" and "not a scandal." He added that "the scandal is illness and the death of children from disease."

Mahoux had called for widening his law to include minors because medics had already helped children in pain die as a question of mercy - just illegally. The draft bill had stated that a child must have "a capacity of discernment and be conscious" on requesting to die.
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