Dilma exchanges gifts with WEF founder, Klaus Schwab
Brasilia – Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said the country offers plenty opportunities for business and that Brazil’s success in the coming years is closely tied to partnerships with foreign and domestic investors. She spoke this Friday (24) at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Dilma emphasized that Brazil has always welcomed foreign investments. “Aspects of the recent conjuncture should not obscure reality. Brazil more than needs and more than welcomes partnerships with the domestic and foreign private sector,” she said.
She added that investments in infrastructure must face the challenge generated by decades of underinvestment, worsened by the increase in population demand in recent years.
The Brazilian president spoke about concessions. “The aim is to add resources, increase efficiency and perfect the management of services associated to these works. Private consortiums that are participating in the concessions are related to great national and international companies,” she declared, referring to the recent bids for roads, airports and the new regulatory framework of the Brazilian port system.
Dilma emphasized the importance of improving railways to help exports of mineral ores and grains. She noted that in 2014 there will be the first railway bid for the Midwestern region of Brazil.
In relation to urban mobility, the president mentioned investments worth US$ 62 billion in subways, monorails and light rail. “One of the greatest challenges is to create a modern network that is compatible with the continental size of the country,” she said.
About oil, Dilma said that the bid for the Libra Field, in the southeast coast of Brazil, in 2013, led to a turnover expectation of US$ 8 billion, a sum which will affect the entire oil and natural gas productive chain.
The issue of using oil royalties for education was also raised during her speech. “We will transform finite richness into perennial heritage for the population: education,” she declared.
Emerging countries
When speaking about trade, the president said that it was time to overcome defensive disputes and acknowledge the sector’s role in economic recovery. “A new global economic growth cycle is beginning. As the crisis begins to fade away, a new outlook on emerging countries will take shape. With a long-term strategy focused on investments, education and productivity, we hope for an even better recovery of this international crisis.”
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Tombini: there is space for growth in Brazil
Dilma emphasized that the emerging economies, such as Brazil, are fundamental for global economic recovery. She believes it is premature to assert that these countries will lose strength with the end of the international crisis.
“We are speaking of countries with the greatest opportunities for investments and consumption increase. Countries that need diversified logistics infrastructure, social and urban infrastructure, energy, oil, gas, mineral ores, industrial and agricultural investments. We are societies going through a strong process of social changes, where new, dynamic markets are formed, internal markets formed by hundred millions and, in some cases, billion consumers,” she stated.
Before her, the president of the Brazilian Central Bank, Alexandre Tombini, said in Davos that the Brazilian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth by about 2% in 2013 is insufficient, but noted that there is space for growth, particularly by supplying manufactured products.
“It was not good enough. We have to do more, move forward. The government has a wide range of areas to work on. We have a broad infrastructure agenda – airports, great games coming up (2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games) -, emphasizing on education, on a pro-growth agenda. We are very well organized in this sense,” declared Tombini.
According to information from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the GDP of Brazil increased by 2.2% in the third quarter of 2013.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that beginning May 19, New York State will adopt the CDC’s “Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People” for most business and public settings. Consistent with the CDC guidance, Pre-K to 12 schools, public transit, homeless shelters, correctional facilities, nursing homes, and healthcare settings will continue to follow State’s existing COVID-19 health guidelines until more New Yorkers are fully vaccinated.
“New Yorkers have worked hard over the last year to prevent the spread of COVID and keep each other safe,” Governor Cuomo said. “That work has paid off and we are ecstatic to take this next step in the reopening of our beautiful state. The people of New York and visitors alike should take solace in the lifting of mask requirements, but be respectful of those who may still feel safest wearing their mask in public and business owners who may still ask patrons to don their mask. We are ever closer to our better, safer New York. We are New York tough and we have proven it.”
To implement the CDC’s guidance, New York State will be revising the following reopening guidelines to take effect on May 19:
Business Mask Rules
Given that the CDC has advised that fully vaccinated individuals do not need to wear masks and over 52 percent of New Yorkers over the age of 18 are fully vaccinated, the State will authorize businesses to continue to require masks for all in their establishments, consistent with the CDC guidance. In most settings, vaccinated individuals will not be required to wear a mask. Unvaccinated individuals, under both CDC and state guidance must wear masks in all public settings.
The Department of Health strongly recommends masks in indoor settings where vaccination status of individuals is unknown. Mask requirements by businesses must adhere to all applicable federal and state laws and regulations.
This recommendation will apply across commercial settings, including retail, food services, offices, gyms and fitness centers, amusement and family entertainment, hair salons, barber shops and other personal care services, among other settings.
Business Capacity Rules
As previously announced, most business capacities — which are currently based upon percentage of maximum occupancy — will be removed on May 19. Businesses will only be limited by the space available for patrons or parties of patrons to maintain the required social distance of 6 feet.
However, given that the CDC has advised that fully vaccinated individuals do not need to maintain social distance, businesses may eliminate the 6 feet of required social distancing, and therefore increase capacity, only if all patrons within the establishment — or a separate designated part of the establishment — present proof of full vaccination status. Proof of full vaccination status can be provided by patrons through paper form, digital application, or the State’s Excelsior Pass.
For areas where vaccination status of individuals is unknown and for patrons who do not present proof of full vaccination status, the required social distance of 6 feet still applies until more New Yorkers are fully vaccinated. This change will apply across all commercial settings, except the exempt settings outlined by the CDC.
Small- and Large-Scale Event Rules
Small-scale events will be able to apply the revised business mask and capacity rules. Specifically, for events below the State’s social gathering limit of 250 indoors or 500 outdoors, event venues will be able to require masks for all patrons — and DOH strongly recommends masks in indoor settings where vaccination status is unknown — and social distancing of 6 feet will be required between parties of attendees, unless all attendees present proof of full vaccination status. Unvaccinated people should still wear masks.
For large-scale events that exceed the State’s social gathering limits, event venues will only be limited by the space available for patrons or parties of patrons to maintain the required distance, as follows:
Unvaccinated attendees and attendees who have an unknown vaccination status must be spaced 6 feet apart in assigned sections. Masks will be required in indoor event settings, except while seated and eating or drinking.
Fully vaccinated attendees may be spaced directly next to one another at 100 percent capacity instead of 6 feet apart in assigned sections that are designated solely for fully vaccinated individuals. Masks are optional. Venues must verify vaccination status to take advantage of reduced social distancing requirements.
Children under the age of 12 who are not yet vaccine eligible, and under the age of 16 who have not yet been able to be vaccinated, may accompany and be seated with a vaccinated adult in a fully vaccinated section.
Proof of full vaccination status can be provided by attendees through paper form, digital application, or the State’s Excelsior Pass.
For large-scale events, proof of recent negative COVID-19 test result for attendees who are over the age of four remains required for unvaccinated attendees in indoor event settings above the State’s social gathering limit but will become optional in outdoor event settings.
Today’s announcement builds on Governor Cuomo’s recent measures to further reopen the economy given significant progress in vaccinations and sustained reduction in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. As of yesterday, 62 percent of New York’s adults had received at least one vaccine dose and 52 percent had completed their vaccine series.
Additional details on the State’s New York Forward reopening guidance updates will be available here.
Kuwait City – The Second International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria takes place this Wednesday (15), in Kuwait City, but on Tuesday (14), humanitarian help entities and governments had already announced donations they will be making this year for the population affected by the civil conflict in Syria. In an event prior to the start of the conference, held in the Kuwaiti capital city, Arab charity institutions have committed to donating US$ 400 million for the assistance of the Syrian population.
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Syrian children are threatened by polio
According to information of the government run Kuwait News Agency (Kuna), the resources shall be used for helping refugees abroad and people dislocated within Syria itself due to the war. The meeting was promoted by the International Islamic Charitable Organization, which is based in Kuwait.
According to Kuna, entities in Kuwait shall donate US$ 142 million, the British Islamic Charity Organization has announced a donation of over US$ 80 million, the Red Crescent of the United Arab Emirates shall be donating more than US$ 35 million and the Thani Foundation, of Qatar, offered US$ 15 million.
Also according to Kuna, the European Commission, executive body of the European Union, released this Tuesday that it plans on donating more than 160 million euro to meet basic needs, ensure education for the children and support neighboring countries who receive Syrian refugees.
The EU commissioner for International Cooperation, Kristalina Gerogieva, said she is “encouraging additional donations from the international community.” According to her, so far the EU has donated 2 billion euro for humanitarian aid for the Syrian population. The EU commissioner in charge of European Neighborhood Policy, Stefan Fuel, added that the bloc managed to encourage the donation of 400 million euro last summer alone. The conflict in Syria has been going on for almost three years.
Further donations were announced by other countries. Bahrain, for example, has declared it shall contribute with US$ 20 million, Finland with 7 million euro and Indonesia with US$ 500,000. The information is from news websites from these countries.
Last year, Brazil sent US$ 500,000 for Syrian aid, and a new sum is to be donated in 2014. “Brazil believes it is important to offer humanitarian assistance, but the war must end,” observed the head of Business at the Brazilian embassy in Kuwait, João Tabajara Júnior.
On January 22 there shall be a second Syria Peace Conference, in Switzerland, in the city of Montreux, where representatives of the president Bashar Al Assad regime and the opposition are expected to face each other.
Polio
The United Nations (UN), which is organizing the conference this Wednesday together with the Kuwaiti government, has announced that they must raise US$ 6.5 billion this year to keep up the humanitarian help for Syrians affected by the conflict.
Many UN agencies involved in this work are announcing their needs this year. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is pledging US$ 150 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) another US$ 178 million, and the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) another US$ 835 million.
The harsh Syrian winter and diseases are some of the greatest concerns. According to Unicef representatives in Kuwait, since October last year there have been 17 cases of poliomyelitis in Syria, which had not registered cases of the disease since the 1990s. A vaccination campaign was started last week in an attempt to offer immunization for all children under the age of five.
In all, there are fifteen UN agencies working in Syria, with the support of 18 international partner NGOs. These are the entities that need resources. One of them is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which accepts donations on their websites www.unhcr.org (in English) and www.acnur.org (in Portuguese).
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China needs to do more than just buy more U.S. goods before the two countries strike a permanent trade deal, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday.
“If we can complete this effort — and again, I say’ if’ — and can reach a satisfactory solution to the all-important and outstanding issue of enforceability, as well as some other concerns, we might be able to have agreement that does turn the corner in our economic relationship,” Lighthizer said.
“We can compete with anyone in the world, but we must have rule, enforced rules, that make sure market outcomes and not state capitalism and technology theft determine winners.”
Lighthizer’s testimony comes after President Donald Trump pushed back a key early March deadline for the U.S. and China to strike a trade deal. Trump cited “significant progress” for pushing back the deadline. The Chinese also agreed to buy up to $1.2 trillion in U.S. goods, CNBC learned through a source.
“Let me be clear,” Lighthizer testified. “Much still needs to be done both before an agreement is reached and, more importantly, after it is reached, if one is reached.”
“It has to be specific, measurable; it has to be enforceable at all levels of government.”
Wall Street has worried about increasing trade tensions between China and the U.S. for most of last year as investors gauged the potential impact of tariffs on the global economy.
This is breaking news. Please check back for updates.
It was a landslide victory for Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday when a large majority of Californians voted against his recall. Had that not been the case, conservative talk-show host Larry Elder would have been elected the first Black governor in the state’s history, as he easily beat the more than three dozen others on the ballot seeking to replace Newsom.
In a 32-minute post-election interview, Newsweek got Elder’s thoughts on what went wrong, what went right and what comes next, and the media-savvy former candidate didn’t pull any punches.
Newsweek: Are you still a Libertarian or are you now a Republican?
Larry Elder: I was always both. I was always a small “L” libertarian and registered Republican, just like Milton Friedman.
Newsweek: Has the Republican party made you an offer to head the RNC in California or nationally?
Elder: Has anybody called me and said, ‘Hey, do you want a job?’ No. But have I gotten support from Republicans up and down the state and nationally? Yes. I haven’t gotten an offer to head the RNC, nor would I expect one.
Newsweek: So you’ll be getting your own TV show?
Elder: I have no idea. I was not running to get a TV show. I’ve been on television many, many times. By the way, I started out in television, even though people call me a radio host. When offers come, I’ll consider them. But right now, I’m just chilling, figuring out what to do with my new-found footprint that I didn’t have before.
Newsweek: But you said you’re not going back to your radio show.
Elder: I didn’t say that.
Newsweek: At your election party you referred to yourself as a ‘former radio host.’
Elder: That was tongue in cheek. My goodness. I wasn’t hosting radio during my campaign, but I didn’t mean I’d never go back to radio. Really, Paul, look into my baby brown libertarian eyeballs — I honestly don’t know what I’ll do next.
Newsweek: Why did you lose to Gavin Newsom?
Elder: Because he outspent me five to one and we’re outnumbered two-to-one Democrat compared to Republican. Even independents outnumber Republicans in California, and Newsom was successfully able to scare people into thinking I’d do everything but reenact slavery. The only actual issue he discussed was that I am anti-vax, which I’m not. I would have had a very different approach to coronavirus, and that’s accurate. He never defended his record on crime, homelessness, how he shut down the economy or how he shut down schools while his kids were enjoying in-person private education and he was yucking it up at the French Laundry while incurring a $12,000 wine tab. I don’t know what he was drinking, but it sure wasn’t Mad Dog 2020. He didn’t mention wildfires and how he mismanaged forests, or a water shortage, or rolling brownouts, or how people are leaving California for the first time. All he did was say “Republican takeover” over and over and show Larry Elder and Donald Trump side-by-side, and it worked, because 83 percent of Democrats believe Trump is a racist, and 61 percent believe all Republicans are racist slash sexist slash bigoted.
Newsweek: The ad with you and Trump was funded by Netflix founder Reed Hastings, and it claimed it was a matter of life and death that you be defeated. Did that surprise you?
Elder: Nothing surprised me. I’ve been critical of the media for a long time. When I decided to run, I knew that the wrath of God was going to come down on me. The flat-out lies didn’t surprise me, like “Larry Elder is anti-vax.” I’m vaccinated and I encourage people to get vaccinated, but I also encourage freedom.
Newsweek: I spoke to celebrities who supported you and they told me that the ad from Hastings sent a chill through conservative Hollywood, as if to say, ‘if you want a relationship with Netflix, you’d better not support Elder.’ Does that make sense to you?
Elder: Of course it does. Two high-profile Hollywood people who support me, Clint Eastwood and Jon Voight, said that I could say they support me but that they wouldn’t put out a statement. Voight later allowed me to post a picture of me and him. And I’m not mad about them not giving a statement, I’m just telling you that this is how it rolls in this state and in this open-minded, tolerant industry.
Newsweek: So you’re saying the media didn’t cover you fairly?
Elder: I put a tweet out, Paul, saying that only in America could a Black man become president and be called the Black face of white supremacy. And not one reporter has said to me, ‘well, Larry, you got smoked on the recall, but, my God, you smoked all these Republicans. You got 47 percent and the next Republican got nine or 10, and you were only campaigning for seven weeks!’ Paul, it is stunning what I have done. I am actually stunned by the margin of my victory.
Newsweek: So then you have further political aspirations, perhaps nationally?
Elder: Stay tuned.
Gubernatorial recall candidate Larry Elder speaks to supporters at an election night event on September 14, 2021 in Costa Mesa, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images
Newsweek: What’s the biggest problem in California and how should Newsom solve it?
Elder: Crime, the fact that people are leaving because they can’t afford a house, and homelessness. I have no idea what he’ll do about those because if he did, he would have mentioned it in his commercials. He didn’t. He’s clueless. He lives in a $5 million house in a gated community. He got attacked during his campaign by a mentally ill homeless person and his security crew took care of it. The things that working-class people have to deal with don’t affect him at all. I believe it will take California hitting rock bottom, like an alcoholic, before we turn this around, because all he had to say was ‘Trump’ and ‘Republican takeover,’ and people got scared and pulled the lever for him. They hate Republicans more than the rise in crime, rise in cost of living, rise of homelessness, rolling brownouts and wildfires. It’s a remarkable achievement by the left and they did it with the complicity of the media.
Newsweek: Was it a fair election with no irregularities?
Elder: We know that a bunch of people in Republican districts tried to vote and were told they already voted. It was investigated, and they eventually were able to vote, but if that’s not an irregularity, I don’t know what is. When all is said and done, with the margin of victory, whatever shenanigans there may or may not have been won’t matter, but we all should have an interest in making sure the election was handled with integrity. I’ll tell you one thing more, Paul; I was asked repeatedly by reporters if I thought Joe Biden won the 2020 election fair and square. I told several reporters, and none of them did anything with it, that just once I’d like them to ask Newsom if Trump won the 2016 election fair and square, because for four years Hilary Clinton said the election was stolen from her and that Trump was illegitimate, and the result is that 66 percent of Democrats, according to a YouGov poll, believe that Russians changed vote tallies. Never mind a 1,000-page report that said the Russians did not change a single vote tally … a greater percentage of Democrats believe the 2016 election was stolen than Republicans believe the 2020 election was stolen. Even if Newsom said he believed Trump won in 2016, the next question should be whether Hillary Clinton should have her social media platform shut down for pushing the big lie the way Trump has had his shut down. Nobody ever asked him. Nobody. One reporter said, ‘well, that’s what-aboutism.’ I said, ‘no, it’s called consistency and being fair.’
Newsweek: Do you regret your decision to run?
Elder: Not for one moment. Nor am I surprised about anything. I complained about being called ‘the Black face of white supremacy and ‘the Black David Duke,’ but I certainly anticipated it, because I have zero respect for the media. They are the public relations bureau for the Democrats. They long stopped even trying to be objective. I just hope that now people are seeing what I’ve been seeing for decades. I know that even people at the L.A. Times were embarrassed about a columnist calling me ‘the Black face of white supremacy,’ because they told me they were. But not only was she not fired, she was on PBS, so our taxpayer dollars were hosting a woman who said that about me. Scottie, beam me the hell up.
Newsweek: So at your election night party, your handlers told you not to talk to me. Did you like having handlers?
Elder: Every candidate has handlers. It didn’t bother me. But ultimately the candidate decides what to do. I got advice I didn’t follow, and was happy I didn’t. I also got advice I didn’t follow and later regretted it. Most candidates have been at it for years and have relationships, but I had to do it on the fly with people I didn’t know. I went through a few campaign managers before finding the right one.
Newsweek: What’s an example of you not taking advice, or taking it and regretting you did?
Elder: I did an interview with the L.A. Times where I jumped all over them for calling me ‘the Black face of white supremacy,’ and my communications manager was not happy with how combative I was. But she soon learned that that’s why people like me, because I’m authentic and I fight back, so she began to tailor her advice to my personality. Another time, the Today Show asked me if I’d appoint a Republican to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein. I knew it was a question designed to upset Democrats, so I didn’t answer it directly. Afterwards, one of my handlers told me I should have just said, ‘yes,’ and I should have. I regret fumbling around and not being myself.
Newsweek: You did sound a little more stifled on the campaign trail than on radio, no?
Elder: Oh come on. It’s a different thing. On the radio I’m taking calls and giving my opinion on events of that day; on the campaign trail I was discussing issues.
Newsweek: At your party, there was a guy dancing around with a giant cutout of your head. Is that sort of adulation giving you a big head?
Elder: No, but there definitely was adulation. There’s no question. I was treated like a rock star; like a Beatle. Experienced people told me they’ve never seen anything like it. I thought I’d have a connection, but, my goodness, middle-age men, forget about women, came up to me crying because they were thinking of leaving California until I entered the race. I did not expect that.
Newsweek: Well, you’ve painted a grim picture of California. Are people right to be moving out?
Elder: Do you think things are going to get better? I don’t see any evidence of that. Just recently at a restaurant on Melrose that I’ve eaten at, people in masks held up diners at gunpoint and took their purses and watches, and Newsom has released 20,000 convicted felons early, even though studies say the majority of them are likely to re-offend. We have a law that allows people to steal up to $950, not just a day, but at multiple stores in a day, without any fear of going to prison because they’re not a felon, and we have district attorneys who are soft on crime and support cashless bail, and there’s no consequences if they simply don’t show up to court. You tell me if people should leave. It’s bleak in California. I wasn’t kidding when I said it’s got great resources — where else can you go surfing in the ocean and skiing in the mountains in one day? — but it’s being ruined by horrible leadership.
Newsweek: The accusation I have heard that hurt you most were reports saying you wanted former slaveholders to get reparations. Is that the case?
Elder: Oh good grief. No one on the campaign trail ever asked me about that, just members of the media. I was being interviewed by Candace Owens, and I said that reparations is the extraction of money from people who were never slaveholders to people who were never slaves. If you really want to play this game, the Dred Scott decision called slaves property. It was vulgar, but that’s what the Supreme Court said. But people always leave this part out; the slave trade could have never existed without African chieftains selling people to Arab and European slavers. Should we get reparations from them? It was a long conversation that was boiled down to, ‘Elder believes white slave owners should get reparations.’ It’s totally unfair.
El problema comenzó el año pasado, cuando se percató de que ocurrían cosas extrañas: desaparecieron archivos de su computadora, su foto de Facebook cambió y los mensajes de texto que le enviaba su hija nunca le llegaban o tenían un contenido diferente.
“Nadie me creyó”, dice Gary. “Mi mujer y mi hermano pensaron que me había vuelto loco. Me pidieron una cita con el psiquiatra”.
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Los hackers aprovecharon una vulnerabilidad de la red a la que estaba conectada su impresora para acceder a la computadora.
Pero el empresario reunió una serie de pruebas y llamó a una compañía de ciberseguridad.
Lo que averiguaron fue que sus direcciones de correo electrónico se habían visto afectadas, sus llamadas habían sido hackeadas y se había creado toda una red paralela de internet.
“Todas mis comunicaciones pasaban a través de un hombre en un servidor no autorizado”, explica Gary.
Nadie me creyó. Mi mujer y mi hermano pensaron que me había vuelto loco
La firma de seguridad cambió y fortaleció todas las contraseñas de los aparatos conectados en su red doméstica e instaló la versión más reciente del cortafuegos.
Y Gary decidió compartir su historia para que pudiera usarse para ayudar a víctimas de este tipo de delitos (de hecho, ha escrito un libro sobre ello).
Además, se hizo voluntario de Instituto para la Responsabilidad Online y la Comunicación entre Celulares (IROC2), una organización estadounidense sin ánimo de lucro cuyo fin es educar a los niños sobre seguridad en internet.
“Sé que no estoy solo”, asegura Gary.
Riesgo creciente
Efectivamente, el riesgo de ciberataque se ha incrementado a medida que ha crecido el número de dispositivos conectados en el hogar, desde termostatos hasta bombillas y cámaras de seguridad.
Aunque controlar la calefacción e iluminación de tu casa a través de un smartphone es práctico, si no conoces los riesgos de seguridad que conlleva puedes acabar pagando un precio muy alto.
“Los consumidores piensan que si compran un producto o servicio de una marca de alto nivel, está fabricado de manera que sea relativamente seguro”, le dice a la BBC Michael Philpott, del equipo de investigación de la consultoría Ovum.
“Pero, al mismo tiempo, probablemente no comprenden del todo las consecuencias y riesgos potenciales de introducir aparatos más económicos en sus hogares”.
Los peligros de la internet de las cosas
El último informe sobre amenazas en internet de la compañía de seguridad informática Symantec dice que el 40% de la gente no es “suficientemente consciente” de los peligros y que el 79% no leyó ninguna noticia sobre el tema.
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Los documentos de Gary Berman fueron saboteados y eso le afectó a su vida personal y profesional.
Pero la falta de seguridad tiene serias consecuencias, tal y como descubrió Gary Berman, quien dice en su libro que se vio afectado “física, emocional, financiera y psicológicamente” y que experimentó “miedo, ansiedad e incertidumbre”, entre otras cosas.
El Centro Nacional de Ciberseguridad de Reino Unido demostró que hasta una muñeca puede ser hackeada y usada de manera remota para controlar cerraduras electrónicas de la casa.
Brian Geisel, director ejecutivo de la firma de internet de las cosas (IoT, por sus siglas en inglés) Geisel Software, dice que, en lo que respecta a los aparatos domésticos conectados, estamos en una situación parecida a cuando aparecieron las primeras computadoras portátiles.
En ese momento, “los detectores de virus apenas estaban empezando a emerger y los cortafuegos en redes domésticas todavía no eran muy conocidos”.
Los individuos con malas intenciones actúan más rápido que las empresas y los consumidores
“La internet de las cosas está en la misma situación; los individuos con malas intenciones actúan más rápido que las empresas y los consumidores”, explica.
Pero ¿cómo estar más protegidos?
Contraseñas y encriptación
El consejo por excelencia es cambiar los nombres de usuario y contraseñas de todos nuestros dispositivos conectados y asegurarnos de que el sistema está actualizado con la última versión.
Geisel también aconseja usar siempre un cortafuegos.
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usar una buena contraseña es fundamental, pero mejor aún usar contraseñas diferentes para cada cosa, dicen los expertos.
Pero para muchos usuarios es más fácil decirlo que hacerlo.
Solamente recordar las contraseñas puede ser una tarea difícil, por eso es útil tener un gestor de contraseñas comoLastPass, DashlaneoSticky Password.
Sin embargo, Craig Spiezle, director de la Alianza para la Confianza Online (OTA, por sus siglas en inglés), dice que “esperar que los usuarios se conviertan en expertos en seguridad en su casa no es razonable”.
Otra opción es usar aplicaciones y establecer controles para bloquear el acceso a ciertos aparatos o páginas web, pero eso puede resultar costoso.
También puedes cifrar archivos importantes y guardarlos en un disco duro independiente o en una carpeta con contraseña.
De lo que no hay duda, pese a todo, es que aunque tal vez nuestras casas se esté volviendo más “inteligentes”, pero no por ello son más seguras.
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Fernando Leanes, representante de la OMS/OPS en el Perú, explicó que existen procedimientos de seguridad que deben seguirse al momento de colocarse los trajes de protección.
Existe todo un protocolo solo para la colocación de los trajes de protección que debe usar el personal de salud en contacto con pacientes enfermos del virus del ébola. ¿Este equipo es vulnerable al contagio?
El epidemiólogo Fernando Leanes, representante de la OMS/OPS en el Perú, recordó que se debe de respetar a “rajatabla” cada uno de los procedimientos de seguridad al momento de colocarse los trajes de protección.
Precisó que se trata de un ejercicio que debe ser dominado de memoria, y el protocolo incluye que haya dos personas para que se supervisen una a la otra al momento de colocarse los uniformes. “Muy bien que en el Perú ya se está al personal sobre esto”, destacó en RPP Noticias.
Sobre el posible contagio de un segundo caso de ébola en Estados Unidos, en la persona de un trabajador sanitario pese a que habría respetado todas las medidas de seguridad, el especialista consideró que el caso debe ser evaluado y esclarecido por las autoridades de ese país.
“TEMOR EXAGERADO E INFUNDADO”
Fernando Leanes remarcó que “no hay que generar alarma” y afirmó que “hay un temor exagerado e infundado” sobre la transmisión del ébola, pues -explicó- la enfermedad se transmite fundamentalmente por contacto con sangre, heces y vómitos. En tanto que el contagio es mucho menor, dijo, por contacto con la saliva, orina, leche materna o semen a través de las relaciones sexuales.
No obstante, insistió en que en el día a día hay que estar precavidos, por ejemplo, si alguien vomita en el auto o cuando hay vehículos de transporte público sin ventilación, algo que muchos no consideran un riesgo.
“Nadie debe manipular heces de una persona enferma o el vómito sin protección adecuada. Se deben usar guantes,y lavarse las manos con los guantes puestos antes de sacárselos”, indicó.
Refirió que la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) ya ha dado las medidas protocolares de prevención ante el ébola, pero recalcó que cada país por una cuestión política y ante el “estrés social” de la población, puede adoptar medidas de prevención adicionales, como ya lo viene haciendo el Perú en los aeropuertos.
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(CNN)As Covid-19 cases surge across the US, particularly among unvaccinated Americans, hospitals have been pushed to their limits treating the influx of patients — and five states are nearly out of ICU beds.
CNN’s Angela Barajas, Kiely Westhoff, Taylor Romine, Elizabeth Joseph, Mallory Simon, Elizabeth Stuart and Deidre McPhillips contributed to this report.
“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C
Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production
Miami – July 31, 2014 –Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C. The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol. “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.
“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming. “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”
“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel. Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.
Brother Stanley was the pastor in charge of the Zion church in the Mattakalappu area of Sri Lanka when the bombing happened.
Speaking to BBC Tamil, he recalls meeting the suspected bomber outside the church and inviting him inside after he had enquired at what time the Easter service would begin.
The bombings targeted churches that were packed full for the Easter holiday, as well as hotels popular with tourists.
Sri Lankan authorities blamed a local Islamist extremist group, National Tawheed Jamath, for the attacks, although the Islamic State group (IS) has also claimed it played a role.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday that New York is continuing to flatten the curve as the state may be at the apex of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The [total] number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex,” Cuomo said at his daily coronavirus briefing where he displayed that the current number of hospitalizations is at 18,654. New York City has 64 percent of COVID-19 hospitalizations while Long Island has 22 percent. Intubations were negative 26 Friday, a decrease that the governor called a good sign.
The governor had originally called for 140,000 beds and 30,000 ventilators based on projections. New York’s previous hospital capacity was 53,000 beds, which has since increased to 90,000 beds.
He said Friday the temporary hospitals at the Javits Center and the U.S. Navy Ship Comfort – which are staffed with federal personnel – “are an overflow relief capacity valve” that will not have to be used if the hospitalization rates continue to stay low, but hospitals have been told that they have those facilities at their disposals should they need them.
As of Friday night only 332 patients have been moved to these facilities that have a combined capacity of 3,000 hospital beds for COVID-19 patients, according to a report by the New York Post.
Cuomo took a shot at conspiracy theories for why governments closed down in light of projections missing the mark by wide margin, calling those ideas “corrosive.”
“There are no political conspiracies here. All the projection models have basically said the same thing…All the experts have higher projection numbers than we actually experienced and they all said caveat government action could flatten the curve but we don’t know what governments will do and we don’t know if people will even listen to what governments will do,” Cuomo said.
Cuomo said he has kept politics out of the coronavirus response, commending President Donald Trump for being “responsive to New York’s needs.” The governor also stated that he is “not running for anything…I am the governor of New York and that’s where I’m going to stay.”
“I have no political agenda, period. I’m not running for president. I’m not running for vice president. I’m not running anywhere. I’m not going to Washington. I’m staying right here,” he said to shut down any qualms or misgivings.
The governor said that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who earlier in the day announced that city schools would be shut down for the remainder of the academic year, could not make that decision “without coordinating that decision with the whole metropolitan region.”
“I understand the mayor’s position…and we may do that, but we’re going to coordinated sense with the other localities. It makes no sense for one locality to take an action that’s not coordinated with the others,” Cuomo said of de Blasio’s decision.
New York currently has 180,458 confirmed cases and 8,627 deaths. There were 783 novel coronavirus deaths in the state Friday, after losing 777 people Thursday.
“These are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and pain, especially this week. All 783 individuals and families are in our thoughts and in our prayers,” Cuomo said.
As for when this pandemic will end, Cuomo quoted Winston Churchill to say that New York is possibly facing “the end of the beginning” with regard with the pandemic, adding: “This was a beginning phase. We are all trying to figure it out, we are all trying to adjust, but it is the end of that beginning.”
The governor urged New Yorkers to continue to abide by social distancing guidelines, as he said the current outlook of the pandemic is a “product of our actions.”
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Department leaders placed unusual restrictions on the National Guard for the day of the Capitol riot and delayed sending help for hours despite an urgent plea from police for reinforcement, according to testimony Wednesday that added to the finger-pointing about the government response.
Maj. Gen. William Walker, commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, told senators that the then-chief of the Capitol Police requested military support in a “voice cracking with emotion” in a 1:49 p.m. call as rioters began pushing toward the Capitol. Walker said he immediately relayed the request to the Army but did not learn until 5:08 p.m. that the Defense Department had approved it. Guard troops who had been waiting on buses were then rushed to the Capitol, arriving in 18 minutes, Walker said.
The hourslong delay cost the National Guard precious minutes in the early hours of the rioting. Walker said he could have sent personnel within 20 minutes of getting approval. It also stood in contrast to the immediate authorization for National Guard support that Walker said was granted in response to the civil unrest that roiled America last spring as an outgrowth of racial justice protests.
Mindful of criticism that the response to those demonstrations was heavy-handed, military officials expressed concern about the optics of a substantial National Guard presence at the Capitol, as well as concerned that such visuals could inflame the rioters, Walker said. Another military official who testified said that then-acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller wanted to make the decisions of how the National Guard was used following criticism last spring.
“The Army senior leadership” expressed to officials on the call “that it would not be their best military advice to have uniformed Guardsmen on the Capitol,” Walker said.
The Senate hearing is the latest about what went wrong on Jan. 6 as national security officials face questions about missed intelligence and botched efforts to quickly gather National Guard troops that day as a mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters laid siege to the Capitol. The hearings have spelled out how police inadequately prepared for the Trump loyalists; that FBI warnings about the threat of violence did not reach top police officials; and that requests for aid were not promptly answered.
“We in the FBI want to bat 1,000, and we want to not have this ever happen again,” said Jill Sanborn, the bureau’s top counterterrorism official and one of the witnesses. “So we’re asking ourselves exactly the questions that you’re asking: Is there a place we could have collected more (intelligence)? Is there something we could have done?”
Meanwhile, the Capitol Police disclosed the existence of intelligence of a “possible plot” by a militia group to breach the Capitol on Thursday. The revelation, coming as the acting police chief was testifying before a House subcommittee, differed from an earlier advisory from the House sergeant-at-arms that said police had no indication that any such violence was planned.
Much of the focus on Wednesday’s Senate hearing centered on communications between the National Guard and the Defense Department. Walker described an “unusual” directive that required Pentagon approval before deploying a specialized 40-member “quick reaction force” and before relocating personnel from one traffic intersection to another.
As chaos escalated on Jan. 6, then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund asked him for National Guard help in a frantic call and then again on a call with Army officials, who said they did not “think that it looked good” to have a military presence.
“The response to the request took too long, so I think there needs to be a study done to make sure that never happens again,” Walker said. “It shouldn’t take three hours to get a yes or no answer.”
That account was consistent with the recollection of Robert Contee, the acting chief of police for the Metropolitan Police Department, who told senators at a separate hearing last week that he was “stunned” over the delayed response. Contee said Sund was pleading with Army officials to deploy National Guard troops as the rioting escalated.
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said during a break in the hearing that senators “certainly will have questions” for Miller and for former Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy.
“Whether that’s going to require testimony or not, I don’t know, but it’s definitely going to require an opportunity to ask them questions about their view, from their perspective, of why this decision-making process went so horribly wrong,” Blunt said.
At last week’s hearing, officials who were in charge of security at the Capitol blamed one another as well as federal law enforcement for their own lack of preparation as hundreds of rioters descended on the building, easily breached the security perimeter and eventually broke into the Capitol. Five people died as a result of the rioting.
So far, lawmakers conducting investigations have focused on failed efforts to gather and share intelligence about the insurrectionists’ planning and on the deliberations among officials about whether and when to call National Guard troops to protect Congress.
Thousands of National Guard troops are still patrolling the fenced-in Capitol, and multiple committees across Congress are launching investigations into mistakes made on Jan. 6. The probes are largely focused on security missteps and the origins of the extremism that led hundreds of Trump supporters to break through the doors and windows of the Capitol, hunt for lawmakers and temporarily stop the counting of electoral votes.
Congress has, for now, abandoned any examination of Trump’s role in the attack after the Senate acquitted him last month at his impeachment trial on a charge of inciting an insurrection.
Lawmakers have grilled law enforcement officials about missed intelligence ahead of the attack, including a report from an FBI field office in Virginia that warned of online posts foreshadowing a “war” in Washington. Capitol Police leaders have said they were unaware of the report at the time, even though the FBI had forwarded it to the department.
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said the report was disseminated though the FBI’s joint terrorism task force, discussed at a command post in Washington and posted on an internet portal available to other law enforcement agencies.
Though the information was raw and unverified and appeared aspirational in nature, Wray said, it was specific and concerning enough that “the smartest thing to do, the most prudent thing to do, was just push it to the people who needed to get it.”
Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman, in testimony last week, conceded there were multiple levels of failures in the riot but denied that law enforcement failed to take seriously warnings of violence before the insurrection.
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Associated Press writers Ben Fox and Michael Balsamo in Washington contributed to this report.
Antonio Osta, fisicoculturista uruguayo que debutó como actor en Clever, la elogiada película de Guillermo Madeiro y Federico Borgia estrenada en 2015, falleció ayer en México a los 43 años.
Según publicó Periódico Centenario a partir de testimonios de familiares, Osta se encontraba en tierras mexicanas, donde como fisicoculturista trabajó muchos años, participando de un seminario sobre entrenamiento deportivo.
Con un problema renal que arrastraba hace años, se sintió mal y solicitó asistencia médica, pero como se encontraba sin seguro de salud no fue atendido.
Osta fue dos veces campeón del mundo como fisicoculturista, trabajo al que se dedicó durante 30 años.
Cuando se estrenó Clever, la perioidista Mariángel Solomita fue hasta Cardona a entrevistar a Osta, y escribió este perfil para Sábado Show.
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