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Beata Szydło zaprasza rezydentów na rozmowy. Jest warunek – koniec protestu

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Premier Beata Szydło zaprosiła lekarzy rezydentów na rozmowy do Centrum Dialogu Społecznego, ale “dopiero po zakończeniu trwającego protestu”. – Mamy dobrą wolę i liczymy na to samo – napisała premier w liście do protestujących.
Pismo we wtorek przekaże lekarzom minister w KPRM Henryk Kowalczyk, który wraz z marszałkiem Senatu Stanisławem Karczewskim spotyka się z protestującymi. – Rząd, którego pracami mam zaszczyt kierować, wielokrotnie udowadniał, że chce i potrafi wsłuchiwać się w głos społeczeństwa. W oparciu o ten głos wprowadzamy reformy oczekiwane przez większość Polaków. Nie unikamy dialogu społecznego, także w kwestii reformy służby zdrowia. Wielokrotnie dawaliśmy temu wyraz – napisała do protestujących szefowa rządu.
– Mamy dobrą wolę i liczymy na to samo. Dlatego chcę dziś zaprosić Państwa przedstawicieli do Centrum Dialogu Społecznego. Tam, ale dopiero po zakończeniu trwającego protestu, możemy rozmawiać o sprawach ważnych dla nas wszystkich. Nasze spotkanie musi bowiem przebiegać w warunkach partnerstwa i wzajemnego zaufania – podkreśliła Szydło.
– Głęboko wierzę, że razem pochylimy się nad problemami, które są przedmiotem Państwa troski. Tym bardziej, że rząd Prawa i Sprawiedliwości zrobił już w sprawach polskiej służby zdrowia więcej niż nasi poprzednicy – wskazała premier.
W swoim piśmie przypomniała m.in., że rząd podjął decyzję, iż w 2017 r. na ochronę zdrowia przeznaczono dodatkowe 8 miliardów zł; w 2018 r. do systemu trafi kolejne 5,8 mld zł; trwają prace nad ustawą, która stopniowo – do 2025 r. zwiększy nakłady na ochronę zdrowia do 6 proc. PKB.

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Exclusive: Symantec CEO says source code reviews pose unacceptable risk

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U. S.-based cyber firm Symantec (SYMC. O) is no longer allowing governments to review the source code of its software because of fears the agreements would compromise the security of its products, Symantec Chief Executive Greg Clark said in an interview with Reuters.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U. S.-based cyber firm Symantec ( SYMC. O) is no longer allowing governments to review the source code of its software because of fears the agreements would compromise the security of its products, Symantec Chief Executive Greg Clark said in an interview with Reuters.
Tech companies have been under increasing pressure to allow the Russian government to examine source code, the closely guarded inner workings of software, in exchange for approvals to sell products in Russia.
Symantec’s decision highlights a growing tension for U. S. technology companies that must weigh their role as protectors of U. S. cybersecurity as they pursue business with some of Washington’s adversaries, including Russia and China, according to security experts.
While Symantec once allowed the reviews, Clark said that he now sees the security threats as too great. At a time of increased nation-state hacking, Symantec concluded the risk of losing customer confidence by allowing reviews was not worth the business the company could win, he said.
The company’s about-face, which came in the beginning of 2016, was reported by Reuters in June. Clark’s interview is the first detailed explanation a Symantec executive has given about the policy change.
In an hour-long interview, Clark said the firm was still willing to sell its products in any country. But, he added, “that is a different thing than saying, ‘Okay, we’re going to let people crack it open and grind all the way through it and see how it all works’.”
While Symantec had seen no “smoking gun” that foreign source code reviews had led to a cyberattack, Clark said he believed the process posed an unacceptable risk to Symantec customers.
“These are secrets, or things necessary to defend (software),” Clark said of source code. “It’s best kept that way.”
Because Symantec’s market share was still relatively small in Russia, the decision was easier than for competitors heavily invested in the country, Clark said.
“We’re in a great place that says, ‘You know what, we don’t see a lot of product over there’,” Clark said. “We don’t have to say yes.”
Symantec’s decision has been praised by some western cyber security experts, who said the company bucked a growing trend in recent years that has seen other companies accede to demands to share source code.
“They took a stand and they put security over sales,” said Frank Cilluffo, director of the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University and a former senior homeland security official to former President George W. Bush.
“Obviously source code could be used in ways that are inimical to our national interest,” Cilluffo said. “They took a principled stand, and that’s the right decision and a courageous one.”
Reuters last week reported that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ( HPE. N) allowed a Russian defense agency to review the inner workings of cyber defense software known as ArcSight that is used by the Pentagon to guard its computer networks.
HPE said such reviews have taken place for years and are conducted by a Russian government-accredited testing company at an HPE research and development center outside of Russia. The software maker said it closely supervises the process and that no code is allowed to leave the premises, ensuring it does not compromise the safety of its products. A spokeswoman said no current HPE products have undergone Russian source code reviews.
ArcSight was sold to British tech company Micro Focus International Plc ( MCRO. L) in a sale completed in September.
On Monday, Micro Focus said the reviews were a common industry practice. But the company said it would restrict future reviews of source code in its products by “high-risk” governments, and that any review would require chief executive approval.
“SLIPPERY SLOPE”
Earlier this year, Beijing enacted a cyber security law that foreign business groups have warned could adversely impact trade because of its data surveillance and storage requirements. The law has further fueled concern that companies increasingly need to choose between compromising security to protect business or risk losing out on potentially lucrative markets.
Clark said Symantec had not received any requests to review source code from the Chinese government, but indicated he would not comply if Beijing made such a demand.
“We just have taken a policy decision to say, ‘Any foreign government that wants to read our source code, the answer is no’,” Clark said.
The U. S. government does not generally require source code reviews before purchasing commercially available software, according to security experts.
“As a vendor here in the United States,” Clark said, “we are headquartered in a country where it is OK to say no.”
Some security experts fear heightened requests may further splinter the tech world, leading to an environment where consumers and governments only feel safe buying products made in their own countries.
“We are heading down a slippery slope where you are going to end up balkanizing (information technology), where U. S. companies will only be able to sell software to parts of Europe,” said Curtis Dukes, a former head of cyber defense at the National Security Agency now with the non-profit Center for Internet Security, “and Russia won’t be able to sell products in the U. S.”

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Las Vegas massacre victim remembered in Tennessee as hero

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A registered nurse who died protecting his wife during the Las Vegas shooting massacre has been laid to rest in Tennessee.
A registered nurse who died protecting his wife during the Las Vegas shooting massacre is being remembered in Tennessee.
At the funeral Tuesday for Sonny Melton, Kris Gulish said his brother-in-law was a hero. He called him a country boy from small town, U. S. A., who touched the entire nation simply by being himself.
Melton was humble, knew everybody, and was known for his grin, Gulish said.
The last act of the 29-year-old nurse was to shield his wife, orthopedic surgeon Heather Melton.
Dr. Melton spoke at the funeral to introduce country singer Daniel Bonte, who carried Sonny Melton to a truck, performed CPR on him on the way to the hospital and stayed with her after he was pronounced dead.
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Katalonien schiebt Unabhängigkeit auf

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Der separatistische Regionalchef Puigdemont steigt auf die Bremse und „verschiebt“ die Abspaltung. Auf einen eigenen Staat will er aber nicht verzichten. Er hofft auf Dialog mit Madrid.
Barcelona. Die separatistische Regionalregierung in Barcelona setzt in ihrem Sezessionskonflikt mit Madrid auf Zeit. Die Region Katalonien soll sich nun doch nicht „sofort“ von Spanien trennen: „Ich schlage vor, dass das Parlament die Unabhängigkeitserklärung aussetzt“, sagte der separatistische Ministerpräsident Carles Puigdemont am Dienstagabend in einer mit Spannung erwarteten Rede vor den Abgeordneten der Regionalkammer. Er wolle zuerst „Gespräche“ führen. Zugleich machte der Ministerpräsident aber auch deutlich: Auf seine Unabhängigkeitspläne werde Katalonien nicht verzichten. Er bat gestern das Parlament um ein Mandat, „um Katalonien zu einem unabhängigen Staat zu erklären“.
Puigdemont war zuletzt stark unter Druck gesetzt worden, auf die Bremse zu steigen. Sowohl die EU, als auch hochrangige katalanische Wirtschaftsvertreter oder Barcelonas Bürgermeisterin Ada Colau hatten auf den Regionalchef eingeredet, auf eine unilaterale Unabhängigkeitserklärung zu verzichten. Eine solche Erklärung war für Dienstag erwartet worden. Die Regionalregierung ist nun tief gespalten: Die linksradikale CUP hatte bis zuletzt auf eine sofortige Sezession gepocht, was offenbar noch am Nachmittag zu heftigen Streiterein innerhalb der Regierungskoalition geführt hatte. Wegen der Zerwürfnisse musste am Abend Puigdemonts Rede um eine Stunde verschoben werden.
Seine Rede nützte jedenfalls der Regionalchef, um die Zentralregierung erneut heftig zu attackieren. Die Madrider Regierung habe jeden Versuch des Dialogs von Seiten Kataloniens abgelehnt: „Die Antwort war immer eine radikale und absolute Weigerung, kombiniert mit einer Verfolgung der katalanischen Institutionen“, sagte er. Und an alle Spanier gerichtet, betonte er: „Wir sind keine Verbrecher, keine Verrückten, keine Putschisten.“
Durch die „Aussetzung“ der Unabhängigkeitserklärung ist die Krise um Katalonien vielleicht vorerst etwas entschärft, aber noch lange nicht gelöst. Offen war, wie Madrid auf das Gesprächsangebot Puigdemonts reagiert. Spanien hat bisher jegliche Verhandlungen über die Unabhängigkeit verweigert. Madrid hat auch „internationale Mediationen“ abgelehnt, da es sich um eine innerspanische Angelegenheit handle. Am Mittwoch, will Premier Mariano Rajoy vor der Abgeordnetenkammer zu Puigdemonts Rede Stellung nehmen.
Er hatte zuvor für den Fall einer Unabhängigkeitserklärung angekündigt, dass Madrid Artikel 155 der Verfassung anwenden werde. Damit könnte die Zentralregierung komplett die Kontrolle in der aufmüpfigen Region übernehmen, die Regionalregierung absetzen, das Parlament auflösen und Neuwahl in Katalonien durchsetzen.
In der Hafenmetropole herrschte gestern Hochspannung: An Flughäfen und Bahnhöfen wurden die Sicherheitsvorkehrungen massivst verstärkt. Vor den Toren des Parlamentsgeländes hatten sich schon am Nachmittag tausende Demonstranten versammelt. Sie skandierten „Unabhängigkeit“. Der Parlamentspalast wurde weiträumig abgesperrt. Hubschrauber schwirrten über dem Areal am Rande der berühmten Altstadt Barcelonas liegt. Die beiden großen Plattformen der Unabhängigkeitsbewegungen, die Assamblea Nacional Catalana (ANC) und Òmnium hatten aufgerufen, vor dem Parlament Flagge zu zeigen. „Hola republica“ (Hallo, Republik) stand auf Transparenten.
Die Katalonien-Krise hatte am 1. Oktober einen vorläufigen Höhepunkt erreicht, als die Regionalregierung trotz Verbotes des spanischen Verfassungsgerichtes über die Unabhängigkeit abstimmen ließ. Nur 43 Prozent der Berechtigten hatten mitgemacht. Spanientreue Parteien hatten dieses Plebiszit boykottiert. Deswegen stimmten fast nur die Unabhängigkeitsanhänger ab. 90 Prozent der Teilnehmer antworteten damals auf die Frage „Soll Katalonien ein unabhängiger Staat in Form einer Republik werden?“ mit „Ja“. Auch wenn dies nicht dem wahren Meinungsbild in der katalanischen Gesellschaft entspricht, die allen Erhebungen zufolge ziemlich genau in der Mitte geteilt ist: Kataloniens Separatistenparteien hatten nie einen Zweifel daran gelassen, dass dies genug sei, um ihre Unabhängigkeitspläne voranzutreiben.
Bereits im September hatte die Unabhängigkeitsfront im Parlament beschlossen, dass ein Sieg der Ja-Stimmen automatisch die Unabhängigkeit zur Folge habe. So schrieben sie es in Artikel 4.4 des katalanischen Referendumsgesetzes, in dem es heißt: „Wenn es mehr bejahende als verneinende Stimmen gibt, hat dieses Ergebnis die Unabhängigkeit zur Folge.“ Die Separatisten haben aber noch eine Hintertür für einen Zeitplan oder Verhandlungen mit Spanien offengelassen. Man werde im Parlament nach der Unabhängigkeitserklärung „die Auswirkungen konkretisieren“, heißt es im Gesetzestext. Diese „Konkretisierung“ legte Puigdemont dann auch am Dienstagabend vor.
Dass Spaniens Verfassungsgericht das Referendum wie auch das dazugehörige Referendumsgesetz für illegal erklärt hatte, störte Puigdemont und seine Weggefährten bis zuletzt nicht. „Wir erfüllen nur den Willen des katalanischen Parlaments“, sagte Puigdemont. Die spanische Verfassung und Gerichtsbarkeit wird von der katalanischen Regierung nicht mehr anerkannt. Deswegen laufen bereits strafrechtliche Ermittlungen gegen Puigdemont und andere Verantwortliche der Unabhängigkeitsbewegung. Ihnen könnte wegen Rechtsbeugung, Ungehorsam und Rebellion der Prozess gemacht werden. Doch auch die Aussicht ins Gefängnis zu wandern, schreckt Puigdemont nicht. „Wir werden tun, wofür wir angetreten sind“, bekräftigte er. Der Unabhängigkeitsprozess werde auch ohne ihn weitergehen. (rs., ag.)
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Fußball: Norwegen siegt – Ødegaard beendet deutsche U21-Serie

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Drammen (dpa) – Supertalent Martin Ødegaard hat die überragende Serie der deutschen U21-Fußballer in der EM-Qualifikation beendet. Der 18 Jahre alte Jungstar
Drammen (dpa) – Supertalent Martin Ødegaard hat die überragende Serie der deutschen U21-Fußballer in der EM-Qualifikation beendet.
Der 18 Jahre alte Jungstar vom SC Heerenveen war maßgeblich am 3:1 (1:1) Norwegens gegen das Team von Europameister-Trainer Stefan Kuntz in der Qualifikation zur EM-Endrunde 2019 beteiligt. Zuvor hatten die deutschen U21-Teams in Ausscheidungsspielen 16 Siege in Folge gefeiert. Und es war die erste Niederlage in der EM-Qualifikation nach 36 Spielen und über sieben Jahren: Zuletzt hatte Deutschland am 11. August 2010 mit 1:4 in Island verloren.
“Die Niederlage tut weh, weil sie vollkommen unnötig war. Bis zum 1:0 ging unser Plan auf, und wir hatten die Norweger gut im Griff”, sagte Kuntz, der auch das Fehlen einiger “Führungsspieler, die den Unterschied ausmachen können” erwähnte, und fügte an: “Wir nehmen die Niederlage als Teil unseres Lernprozesses an. Sie wird uns in unserer Entwicklung weiterbringen.”
Martin Ødegaard, der von Real Madrid an Heerenveen ausgeliehen ist, erzielte das wegweisende Führungstor zum 2:1 (56. Minute), als er nacheinander Benjamin Henrichs und Timo Baumgartl aussteigen ließ und vorbei an DFB-Keeper Alexander Nübel vollendete. Deutschland war durch Cedric Teuchert (31.) in Führung gegangen. Morten Thorsby (45.) glich aus und krönte seine Leistung mit dem 3:1 (71.). Für Deutschland war es im dritten Spiel dieser Qualifikation die erste Niederlage, mit sechs Punkten liegt das Team nach dem Dämpfer auf Rang zwei hinter Irland (zehn Punkte).
Stefan Kuntz nahm gegenüber dem 6:1 gegen Aserbaischan in Cottbus zwei Veränderungen in der Startelf vor: Maximilian Eggestein spielte für Mahmoud Dahoud im zentralen Mittelfeld, Pascal Stenzel rückte auf die rechte Verteidigerposition für Lukas Klostermann. Das deutsche Team, das sich nach dem EM-Triumph im Sommer im Umbruch befindet, begann bei Temperaturen um fünf Grad Celsius und Regen auf dem Kunstrasen selbstbewusst.
Es gelang nicht alles, aber die Gäste kontrollierten in den ersten 30 Minuten das Spiel. Schon nach vier Minuten scheiterte Marcel Härtel an Norwegens Torhüter Sondre Rossbach. Und nach einem schönen Zuspiel aus der eigenen Hälfte stolperte Härtel frei vor Rossbach, der dann den Nachschuss von Cedric Teuchert gut parierte (19. Minute). Der Profi vom 1. FC Nürnberg war dann aber nach einer tollen Brustablage von Felix Platte mit einem platzierten Schuss zum 1:0 zur Stelle.
Nach der Führung verlor die Mannschaft von Kuntz aber die Konzentration und überließ Norwegen die Initiative. Angetrieben von Ødegaard erspielten sich die Gastgeber in der Schlussviertelstunde der ersten Hälfte hochkarätige Chancen wie durch Birk Risa (32.) oder Ødegaard (33. und 39.). Der Ausgleich von Thorsby war verdient.
In der zweiten Hälfte blieben die Norweger am Drücker – vor allem Ødegaard. Der zeigte nicht nur beim 2:1 sein ganzes Können. Wenig später meldete sich das deutsche Team dann wieder mal zurück, als Teuchel an Rossbach scheiterte (53.). Doch die Hausherren setzten durch Thorsby noch ein Highlight, als er eine Flanke elegant mit der Brust annahm und mit dem rechten Fuß vollendete.

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With 'Sleep Well Beast,' the National brings new layers to gloom and heartache

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One of the last indie rock bands standing, the National’s new album ‘Sleep Well Beast’ adds new layers to its moody sound to pair with heartsick lyrics. Which leads us to ask, is everything OK?
Seven albums into the band’s career, there’s a level of fame to be expected from being in the National, who headline the Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday.
Frontman Matt Berninger, who was reached by phone at his hotel room between a recent run of shows in the U. K., described some of his response to National’s new album “Sleep Well Beast” becoming the group’s first No. 1 in that country (back home in the U. S., it debuted at No. 2, another career high).
“I just went and was buying some shirts, and it came on BBC or whatever their main radio station was, and I started singing along to [early single] ‘The Day I Die’ – just perfectly, perfectly in sync with the song,” he said wryly, still a little proud. “And the two women at the shirt shop thought I was just . yeah, they didn’t catch on.
“We are the – what are the opposite of household names?” he joked. “It’s sort of the perfect level of fame.”
Which isn’t to say he or the band has reached the point of late-career coasting. Some three years in the making, “Sleep Well Beast” has many of the familiar hallmarks of a National album, but with new wrinkles. While the National doesn’t shed its reputation for vivid if often gloomy chronicles of domestic disenchantment and discord, this album’s heartsick lyrics such as “I know it’s not working, I’m no holiday” on “Guilty Party” feel particularly raw when considering it’s the product of a married couple.
Berninger’s wife, Carin Besser, a former fiction editor at the New Yorker, is co-credited for lyrics and melodies on “Sleep Well Beast” alongside her husband. Though she’s appeared in the National’s credits dating back to “Boxer” in 2007, it feels worth asking Berninger: Is everything OK? He laughs at the question.
“We have a really healthy marriage,” he said, adding that while he sees most of the album as “pretty slippery” in more concerning relationships with fear, friendship or even one’s country, “Guilty Party” really is about the breakup that it seems.
“You go through breakups, little breakups, like little emotional things where you just can’t talk to each other for a day or two,” he said. “So we look over the edge. We let each other evolve, we let our marriage evolve. We dig into it. She’s just as interested in the truth of the human soul as I am.”
Such exploration on “Sleep Well Beast” is accompanied by distraught, disruptive arrangements. Buzzy electronics and a latticework of percussion frame “I’ll Still Destroy You” while glitchy textures and arcs of guitar rise and collapse around the amorphous, album-closing title track. The noisy “Turtleneck,” by contrast, is probably the most barbed rock song ever released by the National, who sound like a band still reaching for new directions.
“We wanted to throw away the playbook,” said Aaron Dessner, who produced “Sleep Well Beast” and, along with twin brother Bryce, forms part of the intricate two-guitar structure for the band. “Obviously when Matt sings or even when Bryan [Devendorf] drums you can still recognize the National. But I think we needed to sort of open a new chapter and push ourselves.”
Part of that effort was simply bringing everyone back into the same place. Each member of the National now lives in a different city, but the group has long had a fragmented work structure where the Dessners, along with the sibling rhythm section of Bryan and Scott Devendorf, would submit in-progress music to Berninger for him to write and record lyrics over. Dessner likened the unconventional process to “designing a building and building it in pieces.”
To upend this process, Dessner designed another building; a new recording studio outside of his home in upstate New York dubbed Long Pond. Specifically built for the National’s specific needs with plenty of open space to foster a relaxed sense of collaboration, the studio became a central figure in “Sleep Well Beast,” so much so that it’s pictured on the album cover.
“It’s the combination of tranquil and beautiful and really sort of scary,” Berninger said of the space, which backs up against a pond. “Like any watering hole, it’s also where the predators come so we’d be working on stuff late and hear, all of a sudden, this swell of coyotes yelping, which sounded like old ladies screaming to death, and it’s terrifying.”
“It was not only recording it was also, like, hanging out with each other,” Dessner said. “It was the first time in a long time where we were actually just enjoying being friends and not being on tour and not being in some sort of pressurized situation.”
But the cover’s stark nighttime image is misleading. While evoking a band walled off from the world, “Sleep Well Beast” extends the National’s track record of collaboration. Previous albums have included a long roster of guests such as Sharon Van Etten, Sufjan Stevens and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, and this album goes a step further by including the results from a free-flowing residency the Dessners hosted at a former radio center in East Berlin called the Funkhaus.
“Bryce and I had an open studio where we were just working on the National record. We had turned all the vocals off, but anyone could come in and play, even audience members could come in and play and we were recording everything,” he said. Vernon and the German electronic duo Mouse on Mars were among those on hand, and the effort gave the record some fresh, unexpected flourishes.
“If you go back and listen to [“Sleep Well Beast”] you might start to pick out elements which might have come from that time, because they tend to be a little bit wilder or just more like … not necessarily sympathetic to the proceedings,” Dessner said. “More and more I think to have a sort of rewarding musical life you need to be open and collaborative. That’s what sustains you, not building the National up to this giant arena rock thing, or whatever.”
But after seven albums of mining his emotional entanglements for material, does Berninger ever regret sharing too much in a song?
“I really regret around 20 to 30% of everything that’s on every record,” he said with a laugh. “But you got to wear something to prom. And you know, on one level or another, in a few years you’ll look like a fool in those photos, but you gotta go to prom.
“I’m OK with a certain level of humiliation,” he added. “I choke it down.”
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The National with Local Natives and Daughter
Where: Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., L.A.
When: Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Cost: $32.50-$450
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The Substandard Breaks Down The Last Jedi Trailer

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In this latest micro episode, the Substandard searches for meaning in the newest trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The music still soars, says Sonny. Who’s the adorable little furball next to the CGI’d Chewbacca, asks Vic? When will we stop paying…
In this latest micro episode, the Substandard searches for meaning in the newest trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The music still soars, says Sonny. Who’s the adorable little furball next to the CGI’d Chewbacca, asks Vic? When will we stop paying money for this dross, asks JVL?
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Another banner Patch Tuesday, with a Word zero-day and several bugs

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Every version of Windows gets patched, as well as Edge, IE, Skype for Business and Office. Pay special attention to the Word zero-day, the DNS security problem, and the TPM patching madness
It’s going to be a banner patching month. I count 151 separate security patches and 48 Knowledge Base articles, as well as the odd Security Advisory.
The Windows patch Release Notes point to four known bugs:
The Monthly Rollup for Win7 also has an acknowledged bug: an error dialog that indicates that an application exception has occurred when closing some applications.
Martin Brinkmann has his usual exhaustive list on ghacks:
SANS Internet Storm Center has released its list — as has the Zero Day Initiative .
There are some worrisome exposures that we’ll be following closely:
Sounds grisly, but Microsoft says the flaw hasn’t been exploited, and rates it as “Exploitation less likely.” If somebody can hijack your DNS server, you’re in a world of hurt anyway.
WARNING: Do NOT apply the TPM firmware update prior to applying the Windows operating system mitigation update. Doing so will render your system unable to determine if your system is affected. You will need this information to conduct full remedation.
ZDI goes on to explain:
The patch provided by Microsoft is only a temporary measure though, and here’s where it gets truly complicated. The TPM manufacturers need to produce a firmware update to completely resolve this, as the bug itself is present in the TPM firmware — not in Windows itself. This patch is one of several designed to offer a workaround by generating software-based keys whenever possible. Even after a vendor’s firmware update is applied, you’ll need to re-generate new keys to replace the previously generated weak ones.
This is just a stop-gap measure and still requires manual intervention. When the actual firmware updates roll out from TPM vendors, the process will need to happen all over again — except this time, new TPM firmware needs to be installed on every affected device.
Sounds like it’s going to be a woolly month.
Note that Microsoft has, in the past, released truly critical security patches for versions of Windows that are beyond end of life. Which is an interesting philosophical observation.
Today also memorializes the demise of Office 2007. No, you don’t need to run out and buy Office 2016 or rent Office 365. But you do need to be aware that Office 2007 is going to sprout security holes — and you won’t be getting any patches, unless Redmond relents and figures that fixing the elderly branches of the Office ecosystem is worth the time and effort.

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Trump Appears To Get Win In Culture War

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‘We believe that everyone should stand for the national anthem’
President Donald Trump seemed to score a victory Tuesday in his fight against National Football League players who kneel during the national anthem.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell initially came to the defense of players who kneeled after Trump first criticized them during a September rally. Goodell’s tone, however, shifted Tuesday.
“The current dispute over the national anthem is threatening to erode the unifying power of our game, and is now dividing us, and our players, from many fans across the country,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wrote in a statement sent to league chief executives and team presidents. “Like many of our fans, we believe that everyone should stand for the national anthem… We need to move past this controversy, and we want to do that together with our players.”
“Trump won this culture war,” CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski said in response to this statement.
Several NFL players have knelt during the anthem after former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began protesting in 2016.
“I’m going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed,” Kaepernick said at the time. “To me, this is something that has to change.”
The players protesting during the anthem have cited combating police brutality and racism as their cause. Trump and allies, however, believe the protests are disrespectful to American troops.
“Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, he’s fired. He’s fired!” Trump said NFL owners should tell protesting players during a late September rally.
Just seven NFL players knelt in protest the week before Trump made comments at an Alabama rally. Trump’s remarks caused an uproar that led to more than 200 NFL players protesting during the national anthem.
The president maintained, however, over Twitter and in his rally speech that the protests will stop through fan boycotts.
“If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast,” Trump tweeted.
NFL ratings have been dropping throughout the season, but the league denied in an internal memo that this is due to anthem protests.
Recent polling found that nearly two-thirds of Americans think players should stand during the anthem.

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North Korea Suspected of Hacking U. S.-South Korea War Plans

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Documents concerning assassination of top North Korean leaders also compromised Documents concerning assassination of top North Korean leaders also compromised
North Korean hackers are suspected of stealing top-secret military documents detailing U. S.-South Korean plans for a potential conflict with Pyongyang.
According to South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo, the cache of documents were accessed between August and September of last year after the intranet of South Korea’s Defense Ministry was compromised.
Although South Korean authorities initially claimed no sensitive data was stolen, Defense Ministry data obtained through a freedom-of-information (FOI) request by Minjoo Party lawmaker Rhee Cheol-hee revealed 235 GB of content was pilfered. Rhee says only 53 GB worth, roughly 10,700 documents, were mentioned in the FOI response.
“The Ministry of National Defense has yet to find out about the content of 182 gigabytes of the total (stolen) data,” Rhee said in a statement.
Among the more secret files include those concerning “OPLAN 5015,” the U. S. and South Korea’s military strategy for a full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula.
“These plans are aimed at winning a war at an early stage by minimizing damage to South Korea and carrying out pinpoint decapitation operations against top North Korean leaders,” The Chosun Ilbo’s Pak Soo-chan writes.
Other documents surrounding military instillations, power plants and details on Washington and Seoul’s military drills and personnel, were also seized by the hackers.
North Korea has denied any involvement in the breach, accusing South Korea of “fabricating” the claims.
Pyongyang’s hackers continue to make headlines as increasingly brazen hacks are attributed to the government of North Korea.
Last month U. S.-based cybersecurity firm FireEye accused North Korea of stealing bitcoin from South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges in an attempt to offset U. N. sanctions.
The communist state was also believed to be behind the poorly-executed WannaCry ransomware outbreak that affected computers in dozens of countries across the globe last May.
That same month suspected North Korean hackers also began targeting U. N. experts investigating potential sanctions violations by Pyongyang.
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