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Scunthorpe car park getting £250,000 for security and pay machines upgrade


A car park in the heart of Scunthorpe is getting £250,000 investment to improve its security and make it easier to pay to park.

The Parishes multi-storey car park is located off Lindum Street, close to the town’s bus station. Scunthorpe’s new £19.4m Community Diagnostics Centre is being built on part of the ground floor outdoor parking.

The £250,000 is made up of cash from the council, the Police and Crime Commissioner and the government’s Levelling Up Fund. The investment aims to improve safety at The Parishes car park, bringing peace of mind to shoppers and cinema-goers.

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“This security upgrade to one of our busiest car parks is brilliant for Scunthorpe and will be welcome news for motorists,” said Cllr John Davison, cabinet member for safer, stronger communities (urban). “Millions of pounds is being invested to create a new future for Scunthorpe town centre. We are already seeing hundreds of families enjoying the fun-packed events programme at the Queen Elizabeth Gardens, rediscovering everything the town has to offer in the process.

“At the same time, it is important we continue to invest in Scunthorpe’s facilities. The Parishes car park is the first stop for many visitors and we want to ensure it is a welcoming environment. That’s why this investment is so important.”

The cash will pay for the installation of new security barriers, cameras, and door readers. Entry and exit will be controlled by inputting vehicle registration and number plate recognition. New touch screen payment machines will be fitted too. This will enable visitors to pay by coins, cash, cards, or Apple and Android Pay.

North Lincolnshire Council continues to offer all-day free parking on Saturdays and Sundays in more than 2,000 spaces available in its Scunthorpe car parks. “It is important to keep our public assets safe for everyone to use,” said Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner Jonathan Evison. “The Parishes car park in Scunthorpe has been subjected to incidents of anti-social behaviour and criminal damage so this improvement to the security of the site will be of great benefit.

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Hong Kong Tech Park Says Data Exposed By ‘Malicious’ Hack


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Hacking united – A Bletchley park WWII repeat needed


The article discusses the rise of hacking and its implications for our society. It highlights the growing number of computer viruses and hackers engaged in various criminal activities. Initially considered a mischievous act by young programmers, hacking evolved into a lucrative business driven by financial motives. Cybercrime, including fraud, blackmail, and exploitation, has become widespread and complex. Moreover, hacking has given rise to cyber warfare, with nations using hackers to interfere in elections and disrupt systems. Efforts to combat hacking are underway, with a growing demand for cybersecurity experts. The article suggests the establishment of an international scientific institute solely focused on creating impenetrable computer security. This proposal aims to unite nations and address the escalating threat of hacking. The article was first published on FirstRand Perspectives.


Hackers and Hacking

By Peter Dearlove

Why is something so apparently mindless and nasty now rampant? Are hackers just thieves looking for an open window? What is to be done to solve the biggest threat to our sophisticated existence?

Hacking, hackers, white hats, black ones, and grey

There are, perhaps, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thir… different kinds of computer virus, and the number is growing almost as fast as you can say the number is growing too fast. Then again, there are nine, ten, eleven thousand hackers creating new ones and using them to do one, two, three, four or fi… different criminal things.

It is not an easy business to keep your finger on, to fight, to write books about, or to try to control. It is, according to people who track these things, the most important issue and the biggest threat of our times, apart that is, from climate change and maybe the exploding population.

When man-made computer infections first came to general attention and were likened to a virus they seemed more naughty than threatening. For reasons now hard to pin down, wayward young computer programmers, widely assumed to be teenagers, took delight in making people’s computers disobey instructions and do weird things. This they learned they could by inserting a string of rubbish instructions into the…

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Unhackable internet may be in Hyde Park


You gave up using your pet’s name for your password, endured two-step authentification and barely can keep track of all of your passwords. But you still get hacked. For many, it’s the bane of today’s digital existence.

Now, at two federal Department of Energy physics labs in the west suburbs, University of Chicago scientists are working on creating what once might have seemed like science fiction: an unhackable Internet.

It’s an effort that holds great promise to protect our personal data online and much more, experts say.

The Chicago quantum network project involves a test bed of 124 miles of underground fiber-optic cable that links the university’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering with Fermi National Laboratory in Batavia and Argonne National Laboratory in Darien. It’s one of the largest such networks in the country.

Their aim: to find ways to use quantum data to create a system that prevents online eavesdropping.

David Awschalom, a University of Chicago physics professor who heads the Chicago quantum network project.

David Awschalom, a University of Chicago physics professor who heads the Chicago quantum network project.

“What we’re looking at is: Can you transmit info in a secure way that is immune to hacking and protects your personal and privacy?” says David Awschalom, a U. of C. physics professor who heads the Chicago project. “We’re getting close.”

This network and others like it are being used to test the potential for encrypting and transmitting valuable data — for instance, your credit-card information, health records and Social Security number — at incredibly high speed while keeping it beyond the reach of anyone who shouldn’t have it.

In the early 1900s, Max Planck and others made ground-breaking discoveries about the behavior of matter and light at the atomic and subatomic scale — quantum physics. That ultimately led to computers, magnetic-resonance imaging, GPS and other technologies.

Yet harnessing the power of those subatomic particles remained…

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