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Submission + - Whoop! Guam radio stations conduct unscheduled emergency alert (facebook.com) 1

Submitted by the_webmaestro
the_webmaestro writes: A couple of radio stations in Guam conducted an unscheduled test of the Emergency Alert Broadcast System, sending some residents--already on edge due to the back & forth between the North Korean Regime and the tweets made by the President of the United States--into a panic.

The Offices of Guam Homeland Security and Civil Defense (GHS/OCD), in conjunction with the Mariana Regional Fusion Center (MRFC), our federal and military partners, continue to monitor the recent events surrounding North Korea and their threatening actions.
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Residents and visitors may have noticed at 12:25 a.m., an unscheduled test of the Emergency Alert Broadcast System (EAS) was triggered from KTWG/KSTO AM. The message read:
A BROADCAST STATION OR CABLE SYSTEM HAS ISSUED A CIVIL DANGER WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES/AREAS:

Guam, Guam;
AT 12:25 AM
ON AUG 15, 2017
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 12:40 AM.
MESSAGE FROM KTWGKSTO.

The unauthorized test was NOT connected to any emergency, threat or warning. GHS/OCD has worked with KSTO to ensure the human error will not occur again. There is no scheduled test of the EAS or All Hazards Alert Warning System sirens today.

In addition, the Guam Power Authority (GPA) reported there were two scheduled outages, for emergency interruption of power, at 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., August 14...

Unrelated to the EAS unauthorized test, the Guam Power Authority (GPA) reported there were two scheduled outages, for emergency interruption of power, at 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., August 14 for customers located in Talofofo located along along Rte.17, Chalan J. Kindo, Vicente Borja Dr., Felix Dydasco St., Henry Simpson area to bus shelter by Bishop Street and other customers in these locations.

Comment How about all of the above? (Score 1) 229

FreeNAS which uses RAID (ZFS) and Snapshots, which then rsyncs to a local backup drive at the other end of the house. Then, at least one cloud backup contain the important stuff off-site.

Business docs use cloud apps, which keeps the data from residing locally.

Comment Re:Privacy (Score 3, Informative) 65

by HTMLSpinnr (#48929745) Attached to: Amazon Takes On Microsoft, Google With WorkMail For Businesses
Amazon's Press Release (well, blog post rather) suggests that data is encrypted at-rest. Excerpt from https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Fblogs%2Fa...

WorkMail Security Controls Let’s talk about security for a bit. WorkMail includes a number of security features and controls that will allow it to meet the needs of many types of organizations. Here’s an overview of some of the most important features and controls:

Location Control – The WorkMail administrator can choose to create mailboxes in any supported AWS region. All mail and other data will be stored within the region and will not be transferred to any other region. During the Preview, WorkMail will be supported in the US East (Northern Virginia) and Europe (Ireland) regions, with more to follow over time.

S/MIME – Data in transit to and from Outlook clients and certain iPhone and iPad apps is encrypted using S/MIME. Data in transit to other clients is encrypted using SSL.

Stored Data Encryption – Data at rest (messages, contacts, attachments, and metadata) is encrypted using keys supplied and managed by KMS ( https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Fkms%2F ).

Message Scanning – Incoming and outgoing email messages and attachments are scanned for malware, viruses, and spam.

Mobile Device Policies & Actions – The WorkMail administrator can selectively require encryption, password protection, and automatic screen locking for mobile devices. The administrator can also remotely wipe a lost or mislaid mobile device if necessary.

Sounds like it has the makings of a usable service.

Comment Re:Amusing.. (Score 2) 138

by HTMLSpinnr (#44172079) Attached to: Ubisoft Hacked, Account Data Compromised

gMail flagged Ubisoft's email as spam and potentially bogus. I wonder how many people will think it's just another phishing attempt and ignore it now.

I actually read the source of the email to confirm the embedded links were legitimate before marking it as "Not Phishing".

Really sucks for Ubisoft that their notification system will go unheard by many GMail users!

Comment What about Mac OS X and ATI/AMD? (Score 1) 457

by HTMLSpinnr (#44094193) Attached to: PlayStation 4 Will Be Running Modified FreeBSD

"BSDs in general currently lack manufacturer supported full-feature AMD graphics driver, which leads to the conclusion that Sony and AMD have likely co-developed a discrete driver for the PS4."

Really? What about the BSD-like Mac OS X and the ATI nee AMD Graphics chipsets used in the Mac Pro and Macbook Pro? Or is that relationship so far removed that AMD couldn't use that intellectual property in partnership with Sony?

Comment One time password on time limited access (Score 1) 284

by HTMLSpinnr (#43946923) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Best To Disconnect Remote Network Access?
Configure your VPN headend to authenticate against a RADIUS host that is configured for a one-time-password. You must provide that one-time-password to the vendor each time they wish to connect. The second time the same password is used, it should be denied. This should NOT be a token-derived password they posses, but rather something they must get from you over the phone after authenticating themselves in some other way.

Ensure that the connection has a timeout of some reasonable time that won't kick them out of a legitimate activity.

Comment What migration path? (Score 1) 413

by HTMLSpinnr (#43564129) Attached to: My most frequent OS migration path?
I use all three daily! Dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu on my desktop at home. MacBook Pro at work (no boot-camp), along-side a RHEL 5 desktop, Ubuntu laptop, and a Windows 7 desktop. Where I work, folks regularly use two OSes between their laptops (Win/Mac/Ubuntu) and development desktops.

Thus, there really was no migration path, unless you count giving up Windows 7 for a Mac 4 years ago as my primary work machine.

Comment TrueCrypt? (Score 1) 171

by HTMLSpinnr (#43220805) Attached to: Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives
Despite export controls, one has to wonder if they'd be better off protecting themselves w/ encryption on these drives, in case of undesired interception. It's unfortunate that encryption bans can't distinguish between malicious government intent and citizens avoiding the restrictions applied by the same oppressive government.

Comment Monitoring Fail (Score 3, Insightful) 176

I find it hard to believe anyone who maintains such a large fleet of services wouldn't have setup some sort of trivial monitoring (I know they own a product or two) that would include SSL Certificate expiration warning. 30+ days out, a ticket (or some sort of actionable tracking mechanism) should have been generated, alerting those responsible to start taking action. Said ticket should have become progressively higher severity as the expiration date loomed (meaning nothing had been updated), which in any sane company, would have implied higher and higher visibility.

That way, if an extensive test plan for such a simple operation was required, they had plenty of time to execute upon it and still not miss the boat.

Working with MS in other ways, and combined with both the lack of foresight and inability to act quickly, just shows that this sort of customer-forward thinking just doesn't exist inside the MS mind.

Comment Re:Still no microSD? (Score 3, Interesting) 297

by HTMLSpinnr (#41807301) Attached to: Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets
I'm not the OP, but in my case, At least 7GB of the ~13GB available on /sdcard (partition, not actual removable media) in my Nexus S is music which I listen to on occasion - mostly in my car or on a flight. The balance (when closer to full) is pictures before transferring to local network or cloud storage or Apps installed to USB (no longer required for Nexus 4's monolothic partition), etc. Amazon MP3 with CloudDrive storage solves the balance of my music problem (you don't have to marry yourself to Google Play for everything). For most, it's simply silly to carry around your entire collection. It's unlikely you'll want all of it available, thus learning to place effective selection criteria when picking what goes to your device helps manage the size constraint.

Personally, I'd feel constrained by 8GB, but not by 16GB once you realize that even 8GB of "music" is more than anyone needs unless they're spending a TON of time away from the balance of their library. What will put the squeeze on things are 8MP photos and full HD video. Provided I can offload my photos to cloud storage (via Wifi thanks) or home storage, I can live with this level of storage. Thus, I'll be buying the 16GB version to replace my Nexus S.

Now if they had 32GB at $429, this would be a compelling compromise/price point, and would shut down many of the "it's too small" comments.

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