Wednesday 11 January 2017

Russia hacked Ukraine's power grid-investigators

Atlantic published Russia is targeting Ukraine with cyberattacks isn’t new. But Information Systems Security Partners, a Ukrainian firm hired by the national power company to look into the hack, determined that those responsible were also to blame for a similar hack in 2015 that affected a quarter of a million people. Last month Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said hackers tried to breach state institutions 6,500 times in two months, something he called “acts of terrorism.” A piece byWIRED published last March found the hack in 2015, which closely resembled this recent hack, was a well-choreographed attack in which hackers stole operator credentials. The hack, WIRED wrote, probably took months to plan.

I received death treath after dumping my ex.Bella

“[I] was getting death threats for a hot minute because they thought I had cheated on my ex, which is a total lie,” Thorne told People magazine. “When I wo 
Thorne says the backlash she received online was hard to take.
It doesn’t feel good to think that everybody in the world just thinks you’re an absolutely disgusting person and just because I’m somebody where people know my name, it’s so much worse for me,” Thorne told People. “And people think that, like, we don’t get bullied in Hollywood — but we do! We get bullied by the public eye and fans and it’s really, let me tell you, it f—ing hurts.”
Thorne views this experience as a lesson in how to handle bullies.
“I’m letting kids know like, ‘If somebody’s being rude to you, you have the right to stick up for yourself,’” Thorne, 19, said. “When I see [bullying] on other people’s pages, I respond because it irks me to my core.”

Jeb Bush want Trump phone stolen so he can stop tweets


According to blaze Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a onetime Republican presidential candidate, has been a consistent political thorn in President-elect Donald Trump’s side, and now he’s going after one of the billionaire businessman’s sacred cows: his Twitter account.
Speaking Tuesday evening at the William Waldo Cameron Forum in Texas, Bush quipped that he hopes Trump’s wife, Melania, “steals” her husband’s phone, speaking of the frequent tweetstorms the incoming president is known for.
“Or at least have a rule about no tweets after 6 o’clock,” Bush joked, according to The Eagle newspaper, adding, “He has a great team around him, and that bodes well.”
While Bush expressed support for some of Trump’s decisions since winning the election and has wished him well as president, the ex-governor still seems to have some concerns about the brash real estate developer — and he’s not alone.
According to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday, 64 percent of American voters actually want Trump to completely delete his Twitter account. Millennial-aged respondents (18-34) were even more adamant about his social media use, with 71 percent saying he should delete his account.
Even Melania suggested the president-elect should tweet less, telling NBC News’ “Today” in an April interview that tweeting is something she wishes her husband would do less often.

"You are a fake News"Trump scolded CNN and reporter.

According to the hill,President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday refused to take a question from a CNN reporter during his press conference, berating the network for “fake news.”
"Your organization is terrible," Trump told CNN’s Jim Acosta when he tried to ask a question.
"You're attacking us, can you give us a question?” Acosta replied.
CNN on Tuesday night reported that intelligence officials had briefed Trump on an unverified dossier alleging that the Russian government is in possession of compromising information about him.
The 35-page document — made up of a collection of memos filled with explosive claims about the billionaire's relationship to Russia — has reportedly been circulating among journalists and officials for at least a few weeks.
But the sourcing on the document is unclear and likely unverifiable. CNN reported that it is based primarily on memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative that were intended as opposition research into Trump.
The president-elect on Tuesday night immediately blasted the report, tweeting, "FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!" 
During the press conference, Trump specifically called out CNN for pushing the story, saying it was "disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out."
"I think it's a disgrace, and I say that, and that's something that Nazi Germany who have done and did do," he said.
"I think it's a disgrace that information that was false and fake and never happened got released to the public. As far as BuzzFeed, which is a failing pile of garbage, writing it, I think they're going to suffer the consequences. They already are. And as far as CNN going out of their way to build it up."
The president-elect often rails on the media and has attacked CNN several times in the past for what he says is dishonest and biased coverage against him.

Trump may pick ambassador from Jerusalem

President-elect Donald Trump's transition has been floating the possibility of initially having the US ambassador to Israel work and live in t
Several diplomats, Israeli officials and sources close to the transition who are familiar with the idea said it could be seen as compromise that gives a nod to Israel on Jerusalem -- which Israel and the Palestinians both claim as their capital -- without the firestorm a formal relocation of the embassy from Tel Aviv would almost certainly bring.
Diplomats said there have been signs Trump may pull back from his campaign pledge to relocate the US Embassy to Jerusalem amid warnings from Arab and European diplomats to the incoming administration that the move could unleash violence, undermine the peace process, damage US standing in the Middle East, and endanger American personnel.Trump spoke about moving the US Embassy repeatedly during the campaign.
In a speech to the pro-Israel lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee in March, Trump said he wanted to "move the American Embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem." In a subsequent TV interview, he said the move would happen "fairly quickly."
Trump has named New York lawyer David Friedman as his ambassador to Israel, pending Senate confirmation. Friedman has long been a proponent of moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem and, upon being named, said he looked forward to working "from the US Embassy in Israel's eternal capital, Jerusalem." Under the option being considered, Friedman would be given an office in the consulate.
The 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act calls on the US to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and relocate the embassy there. But the law allows for the move to be waived if the President deems it harmful to US national security interests.
Since it passed, every US president -- Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama -- has signed the waiver every six months, even though Bush and Clinton had promised to move the embassy during their presidential campaigns.
Earlier this month, Obama renewed a presidential waiver delaying the move for another six months, citing "national security interests." The waiver expires June 1.
Israeli sources have suggested the May 24 Israeli holiday of "Jerusalem Day" as a possible date for relocating the embassy. That national holiday commemorates the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City following the June 1967 Six Day War and typically is marked by ceremonies and memorial services.
Diplomatic sources said having Friedman work out of the consulate, at least until the waiver expires, could give the incoming administration time to think through the consequences of relocating the embassy and find a face-saving way to back out of Trump's campaign pledge.
Diplomats suggested that once the administration is in office for a few months, the threat of more chaos in the Middle East and the need not to alienate US Arab allies may cause a newly minted President Trump to sing a different tune.

Obama farewell:Obama appeal unity and perticepation in democracy

Voa update:U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday the country is a "better, stronger place" than when he took office in 2008, pointing to the reversal of a recession, passage of his landmark healthcare program and the legalization of gay marriage as achievements the American people have won through his message of change.
That section of his farewell address drew huge applause from a crowd of thousands in Chicago, delivered a few kilometers from the site where he gave his acceptance speech the night he won his first term in the White House."Understand, democracy does not require uniformity," he said. "Our founders quarreled and compromised, and expected us to do the same. But they knew that democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity -- the idea that for all our outward differences, we are all in this together."
Obama is the first black man to serve as U.S. president, and he noted that after his election many spoke of what they called a "post-racial" America. But he said race is still a "potent and often divisive force," and stressed the need to.
"So regardless of the station that we occupy; we have to try harder; we all have to start with the premise that each of our fellow citizens loves this country just as much as we do; that they value hard work and family like we do; that their children are just as curious and hopeful and worthy of love as our own."
Obama listed economic achievements such as cutting the number of people who lack health insurance, a growing economy and a lower unemployment rate. But he said those are not enough and that economic inequality hurts the country's democratic principles.
"While the top one percent has amassed a bigger share of wealth and income, too many families, in inner cities and rural counties, have been left behind," he said.
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Obama told U.S. military members that serving as their commander-in-chief was the honor of his lifetime, and he pointed to successes in the fight against terrorism, including the killing of former al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and the ongoing coalition effort against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
The president said the United States has to guard against weakening its values in the face of fear, further noting his efforts to ban torture, reform government surveillance laws and close the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."That's why I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans," Obama said, drawing perhaps his loudest applause of the night.
He said he is more optimistic about the country than when he began his presidency. But he also urged people to take an active role in democracy, saying the system depends on Americans "accepting the responsibility of citizenship regardless of which way the pendulum swings."
During his 2008 campaign, Obama used as one of his slogans, "Change we can believe in." He returned to that idea at the end of his address Tuesday.
"I am asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours," Obama said.

A man who didnt sleep for 6month

According to H-metro.49-year-old heart patient has revealed that he has endured six months WITHOUT sleeping. Charles Munodzana, who left the country yesterday for India, says he hopes his condition will become better as he will go for an Aortic Valve Replacement procedure at Fortis Hospital.
From his medical aid society PSMAS, Charles got US$8 500 but he could not get the air tickets to go for the operation and when his plight was published by Masvingo Mirror, Zimbabwe Amalgamated Housing Association director general killer Zivhu decided to chip in.
“I was once a driver at ZUPCO but I left the job three months ago because of my condition which has made me not to sleep and to have difficulties in breathing. “Since May, I have not been able to sleep, as any attempt that I make is really difficult because I feel like I am chocking.
“I feel like I am being chocked, such that if I’m lying on the bed, I fall to the ground. “I have since resorted to lying on a foam rubber on the ground, not to sleep as such but just to rest my back. “I have also not been able to eat properly, any time that I eat I vomit everything out, and I feel my whole body is weak, all because of my condition. When I got the US$8 500 for my medical aid, it was really a relief but without the air tickets to India, it meant nothing.

“Though there is a shortfall of US$1 000, I now have hope that as I leave tomorrow (yesterday) for India everything will go well,” revealed Charles. Charles was on Saturday handed two air tickets by ZAHA Finance Director Rufaro Ngadze and Charles’s wife Vaireti and kids were there to watch and they expressed their delight.
“Being with someone who cannot find sleep at all is really a difficult task, such that I just end up just sitting as well, because you cannot really understand what it is about his condition. “He goes through so much pain and all efforts even to feed him are futile because he just vomits it all, sometimes he just tries to eat to make us happy but it is really difficulty.
“He has lost some considerable weight and we just hope this operation will be successful,” revealed Vaireti. Councillor Zivhu revealed that whilst they had been able to see to it that Charles goes to India, they are still working on getting more money for Mollen Makoni, who is set to leave the country also for India for a kidney transplant.
“We however want to point out that the money for Molly’s expenses is not yet enough because we are still US$9 000 short but we remain hopeful that come the time for her to go (November 19) the money will be enough so that she goes for surgery,” revealed Cllr Zivhu.
Cllr Zivhu said they appreciate the help they received from corporates, Masvingo Mirror and other individuals who also helped towards the worthy cause.