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Double shooting leaves 1 dead • Comerica Park’s new lights • Racial slur at DSO performance

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1 killed in double shooting on Detroit’s west side

One person died and another’s condition is unknown after Detroit police say a double shooting took place on the city’s west side Monday morning.

MONDAY NEWS HIT – Officers could be seen with flashlights and cameras in the upstairs floor of a home where a double shooting occurred early Monday morning.

Detroit police say at least one of the victims died from their injuries while the second’s condition remains unknown after gunfire was exchanged in a home on the city’s west side.

Police haven’t released much information on the nature of the shooting, but did say they started getting calls around 3:30 a.m. about reports of shots being fired.

The scene remains active inside the home, located on the 13600 block of Santa Rosa. It’s near Oakman Boulevard and Livernois.

It’s unclear what motive might be at play regarding the shooting. 

Police are expected to canvass for witnesses and any home surveillance footage that could tell them anything about what happened. 

DSO investigating racial slur incident

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra said it is investigating an incident during one of the group’s performances last week involving a racial slur. In a Facebook post over the weekend, the DSO said it was “deeply disappointed by an incident that took place towards the end of Friday night’s concert when an audience member shouted a racial slur.”

“Racism and bigotry have no place in Orchestra Hall, and behavior like this is unacceptable. We are currently investigating and will enact a permanent ban once we identify the ticketholder,” wrote the post.

The DSO is currently performing many holiday-themed series with Christmas around the corner. On Dec. 9, the night of the incident, the orchestra put on a show that included music from A Charlie Brown Christmas. 

“Live music is a profoundly human experience that taps into our emotions and provides us all with a sacred space for listening. We apologize that this space was violated. We appreciate our audiences so much and hope to see you back at Orchestra Hall soon.”

Read the Facebook post here.

Comerica Park getting new lights

While it’s the Detroit Lions making waves in Motor City sports, the…

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Street Lights Out for Weeks in Roseland, Neighbors Raise Safety Concerns – NBC Chicago

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Senior citizens living on one block in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood assert their street lights have been out for multiple weeks, and they worry the problem will cause a crash or lead to more crime.

For multiple weeks, the 113th block of Wallace Street has looked pitch black at night, except for the glow of some porch lights.

Angela Myrick, who has lived on the block for 25 years, says going out at night is limited, and nighttime visits from others are, too.

“I walked last night, but one house had a gap, you could not see at all,” she stated.

While lights on the 113th block are out, residents say if you go one block over – to the 114th block – street lights there do function. Some residents say they’ve called the city’s 311 hotline so often about the issue, dispatchers know their names.

“I have called so many times, they say, ‘ok, well get to you,’ I say ,’when,'” said resident Joseph Garrett.

“We have exhausted all of our means here, that is why we turned to NBC 5,” stated one resident.

NBC 5 reached out to the city’s Department of Transportation, which is responsible for maintain and repairing street lights, and is still awaiting a response. Ald. Carrie Austin, who represents the city’s 34th Ward, which includes the block, said she has done everything in her power to get the issue resolved.

“This is 35 days it has been going on, but not on our end, it is on 311, it is on the department’s end,” Austin said.

Until the lights are fixed, some residents say they’ll just rely on their porch lights and pray nothing happens.

“Roseland has a reputation, and it is well known, and the city is putting us in jeopardy, and I don’t like [it],” one resident said.

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Watch a Hacker Hijack a Capsule Hotel’s Lights, Fans, and Beds

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Kyasupā wondered if he could hack his hotel’s iPod Touch controls after they handed it to him at check in, but he didn’t want to waste his vacation time reverse engineering the system. He says he changed his mind after a noisy neighbor kept him up for several nights. “I thought it would be nice if I could take control of his room and make him have a lovely night,” he writes. “That’s how I decided to start to analyze how everything worked.”

The iPods the hotel issued as remote controls were locked with iOS’ “guided access” setting that prevents users from leaving the Nasnos remote control app. But Kyasupā found he could simply let the iPod’s battery drain and restart it to gain full access—a hard reboot is a known guided access workaround—and the iPod didn’t have a PIN set for its lockscreen. He then saw that the iPod was connecting via Wi-Fi to a Nasnos router—each room seemed to have its own—that in turn connected via radio to the other digital devices in the room like its lights, fan, and foldout couch.

To intercept the app’s commands from the iPod to the Nasnos router, Kyasupā knew he’d have to find the password to access that router. But remarkably, he found that the Nasnos routers used WEP encryption by default, a form of Wi-Fi security known for decades to be easily crackable. “Seeing that WEP is still used in 2019, it’s crazy,” he writes. Using the program AircrackNG, he brute-forced the router’s password and connected to it from this laptop. He was then able to use his Android phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot, connect the iPod to that hot spot, and route it through his laptop. Finally, he connected the laptop to the Nasnos router via Wi-Fi and used that setup as a man-in-the-middle to eavesdrop on all the iPod’s communications to the router.

Kyasupā then tried out every function in the app—such as turning lights on and off, converting the couch to a bed, and so on—while recording the data packets sent for each one. Because the Nasnos app used no actual authentication or encryption in its communications with the router, other than the WEP Wi-Fi encryption, he could then connect to the room’s router with his laptop instead and replay those commands to trigger the…

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Smashing Security podcast #196: Smart guns, smart cars, and smart street lights – oh my!

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Kalashnikov unveils its “smart” shotgun, San Diego struggles with its street lights, and a researcher reveals how he found a way to hack every Tesla on the planet. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined … Continue reading “Smashing Security podcast #196: Smart guns, smart cars, and smart street lights – oh my!”
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