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Visakhapatnam: IG suspends night round officer after series of house break-ins at Tummapala

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Inspector General of Police, Visakha Range, L.K.V. Ranga Rao, on Sunday suspended an Assistant Sub-inspector, who was the night duty officer in Tummapala region under Anakapalle (Town) Police Station limits, after a series of house break-ins were committed in the village during the early hours of Friday.

The DIG warned that action would be taken against any police officer, if he/she was found negligent in their duties. He also said that special teams were deputed to investigate the case, and assured the victims that the accused would be arrested at the earliest.

A group of unidentified miscreants have allegedly stolen ₹1.30 lakh from two houses and the panchayat office at Tummapala. They also reportedly attempted to commit thefts in five more houses. Superintendent of Police B. Krishna Rao visited the crime scene and gave suggestions to the officials.

Mr. Ranga Rao said that the police have been collecting the details of ex-offenders and persons who were released from jails recently from in and around the district. The DIG also asked the police personnel to check the history of suspicious persons, by utilising Finger Print Identification System and Mobile Security Check Device while performing their duties either during the day or at night.

‘Patrolling intensified’

He also sought cooperation from the local people of Anakapalle to inform the police, if they find any person, moving suspiciously. He said that patrolling has been intensified at vulnerable places like dhabas, hotels, liquor stores, highways, railway stations and bus stations.

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Military experts discuss the future of warfare in Thursday night forum hosted by The Gazette and KKTV | Subscriber-Only Content

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Now that America’s longest war has come to an end, what does the future of warfare look like?

That was the focus of many questions put to a panel of former and current military officers Thursday night at the Southeast Armed Services YMCA during a community conversation hosted by The Gazette and KKTV.

But as many of the roughly 50 in attendance arrived at the facility, a group of about two dozen stood on the sidewalk singing and holding signs.

Amy Zimbelman, a conference minister – something like a bishop – with Mountain States Mennonite Conference, which represents 17 churches in Colorado and New Mexico, stood next to fellow church members, peace and justice activists and Colorado College students.

The Colorado Springs resident had issue with the forum’s title: After Afghanistan: The Future of Warfare.

“The way the conversation is framed makes it sound as though warfare is just a foregone conclusion,” she said. “We need to look at other alternatives. We need to take seriously, active, non-violent resistance in our world.”



Community Conversation - After Afghanistan: The Future of Warfare

Amy Zimbelman, a conference minister with Mountain States Mennonite Conference, stands with a few dozen others outside the Southeast Armed Services YMCA before a community conversation with a panel of military experts discussing the future of warfare that was presented by The Gazette and KKTV on Thursday

. “We need to take seriously, active, nonviolent resistance in our world,” she said.




Colorado College freshman Wiley Holbrooke, 19, of Telluride, and…

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Night Terrors: Ransomware Campaigns Are Exploiting PrintNightmare

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PrintNightmare is being actively exploited to distribute ransomware, ZDNet reports, and security researchers have found evidence of multiple threat actors taking advantage of the vulnerability.

Microsoft acknowledged PrintNightmare on July 1. It released an emergency update to address the flaw less than a week later, but that patch was imperfect, and the company didn’t have an official fix until it changed the default behavior of Point and Print driver installation on Aug. 10.

Many people are slow to update their systems, however, and security researchers at CrowdStrike and Cisco Talos Incident Response independently shared their discovery that hacking groups were exploiting the PrintNightmare vulnerability in the days following Microsoft’s latest patch.

CrowdStrike said on Aug. 11 that it “identified Magniber ransomware attempting to use a known PrintNightmare vulnerability to compromise victims” in July. It successfully blocked those attacks, but systems that don’t rely on its protections could still be targeted by the ransomware.

“CrowdStrike estimates that the PrintNightmare vulnerability coupled with the deployment of ransomware will likely continue to be exploited by other threat actors,” the company said, and the researchers at Cisco Talos proved that estimate was correct with their own announcement.

Cisco Talos said on Aug. 12 that a ransomware campaign operator known as Vice Society, which has targeted “public school districts and other educational institutions” as well as other “small or midsize victims,” was actively exploiting PrintNightmare as part of its latest attacks as well.

“The use of the vulnerability known as PrintNightmare shows that adversaries are paying close attention and will quickly incorporate new tools that they find useful for various purposes during their attacks,” Cisco Talos said. “Multiple distinct threat actors are now taking advantage of PrintNightmare, and this adoption will likely continue to increase as long as it is effective.”

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PrintNightmare is a compelling target in part because it affects every version of Windows. Defending against it also requires changing the operating system’s behavior by disabling the Print…

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Opinion | What Keeps Facebook’s Election Security Chief Up at Night?

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One thing Facebook started doing after I joined is we began publicly announcing coordinated inauthentic behavior (a somewhat vague term that means using fake accounts to artificially boost information designed to mislead) takedowns. We’ve found more than 100 of these in the last three years and we announce them and publicly share info and give this to third-party researchers so they can give their own independent assessment of what’s happening. As a result, these operations are getting caught earlier and reaching fewer people and having less impact. That’s also because government organizations, civil society groups and journalists are all helping to identify this.

What that means is that their tactics are shifting. Foreign adversaries are doing things like luring real journalists to create divisive content.

Are these malicious actors trying to use fear to get us to manipulate ourselves?

Influence operations are essentially weaponized uncertainty. They’re trying to get us all to be afraid. Russian actors want us to think there’s a Russian under every rock. Foreign actors want us to think they have completely compromised our systems, and there isn’t evidence for that. In a situation like this, having the facts becomes extremely useful. Being able to see the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of these campaigns is useful. It’s a tool we can use to help protect ourselves. We know they’re planning to play on our fears. They’re trying to trick us into doing this to ourselves, and we don’t have to take the bait.

It seems we as a nation are our own worst enemy in this respect.

It’s like you wake up in the morning on Election Day and the whole process is this black box. It feels like jumping off a cliff and you land at the bottom when the votes are counted and you don’t really see the things that happened along the way. But really there’s a staircase you can take. There’s a bunch of steps. Voting starts, then officials begin counting ballots. There are controls and systems in place, and at the end you’ve made it to the bottom of the staircase. We need to do our part to show people the staircase and what happens in each moment to say, “There’s a plan to all…

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