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Thursday, August 8, 2013
Twitter simplifies secure sign-in with in-app approval on iOS and Android
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The move was reminiscent of Apple?s earlier this year when it introduced two-factor authentication for customers? Apple IDs.
?Good stuff from Twitter,? said Andrew Storms, senior director of development and operations at San Francisco-based CloudPassage, in an interview via instant message. ?I like how they took it a step further, despite being slow to implement the initial two-factor compared to other big vendors.?
Storms? ?step further? was a reference to the in-app authentication Twitter introduced on Tuesday. In May, the micro-blogging service rolled out a?standard form of two-factor log-in?that relied on text messages.
Two-factor authentication ? sometimes called two-step verification ? is a more demanding method of locking an account than a password-only process. In enterprises, for instance, two-factor uses hardware tokens that generate passcodes, which are valid for just moments and must be entered along with the usual password.
But web services don?t distribute tokens. Instead, they typically send a passcode to a mobile phone number the account owner has registered earlier. The passcode is usually sent as an SMS (short message service) text.
Starting today, Twitter users with the service?s official Android or iOS apps on their smartphones or tablets will be able to approve the log-in without entering a string of numbers or having access to SMS. The latter is a big boon for people who rely on tablets.
?Not needing SMS means even users with tablets or those without phones can use two-factor, [people with an] iPod touch, for example,? said Storms. ?I have to give Twitter the tip of the hat by taking this beyond SMS.?
Apple?s two-factor authentication, which rolled out in March, also offers non-SMS authentication, pushing the passcode to an iPhone or iPad via the Find My iPhone app?s notification feature.
Unlike Twitter?s improved two-step authentication, however, Apple?s still requires users to enter a passcode.
Twitter also mimicked Apple in the use of a backup code, which is generated when users register for the optional two-factor authentication. The backup code can be used to access an account if the device with the Twitter app is stolen, lost or simply not within reach when logging onto the service?s website from a desktop or notebook browser.
The San Francisco, California company also warned users that some third-party apps may stumble with two-factor authentication engaged. Twitter?s own TweetDeck on Windows and OS X is in the same boat. To log into those apps, users must generate a temporary password.
Twitter joined several other major technology companies, including Apple,?LinkedIn?and?Microsoft, that rolled out two-factor authentication this year. Facebook and Google have offered secure log-ins since 2011.?After?Twitter was hacked in February, it asked a quarter-million of its customers to reset passwords. Calls for Twitter to implement two-factor authentication got louder after that.
Future breaches won?t give hackers anything to work with, at least for those who have opted to switch on two-step authentication, Twitter said today. ?We chose a design that is resilient to a compromise of the server-side data?s confidentiality. Twitter doesn?t persistently store secrets, and the private key material needed for approving login requests never leaves your phone,? said Alex Smolen, a Twitter security engineer, in a post to the company?s?blog.
Twitter has?posted more information?about the new in-app authentication that includes instructions on how to set up the feature.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
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Chocolate may help keep brain healthy
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Drinking two cups of hot chocolate a day may help older people keep their brains healthy and their thinking skills sharp, according to a new study.
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Inside the Cardboard Chapel That Replaced an Earthquake-Ruined Church
The 6.3-magnitude earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand in 2011 killed more than 200 people and damaged thousands of buildings, including the city's oldest church, a grand stone copy of a gothic cathedral in Oxford. This week, two years after it fell, its replacement is open to the public. And it's unlike anything ever built in Christchurch?or the world.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/inside-the-cardboard-church-that-replaced-an-earthquake-1047065519
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How The $1.2 Trillion College Debt Crisis Is Crippling Students, Parents And The Economy
Total Student Loan Debt: $1 Trillion ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??
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Two-thirds, that?s right, two-thirds of students graduating from American colleges and universities are graduating with some level of debt.? How much?? According to The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) Project on Student Debt, the average borrower will graduate $26,600 in the red.? While we?ve all heard the screaming headlines of graduates with crippling debt of $100,000 or more, this is the case for only about 1% of graduates.? That said, one in 10 graduates accumulate more than $40,000.
It?s a negative sum game for both student-borrowers and the economy. According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, student loan debt has reached a new milestone, crossing the $1.2 trillion mark ? $1 trillion of that in federal student loan debt.
This pushes student loan debts to dizzying new heights, as they now account for the second highest form of consumer debt behind mortgages.? With the federal debt at $16.7 trillion, student loan debts measure at 6% of the overall national debt.? This is no small figure, and national debt carries many consequences including slowing economic growth (translating into fewer jobs being created) and rising interest rates. ?Capital will not be as easy to access.
The majority of student loans are backed by the U.S. government through banks like Sallie Mae, or since 2010, by the Department of Education.? Translation: the creditor in this scenario is the U.S. tax payer, who if students default on these loans will be subject to carry the burden of these loans.
Federal Loans are Safer than Private
Lauren Asher, president of TICAS, a nonpartisan policy group, says that government loans are the safest type of loans to take while financing education. ?Federal student loans are the best way to borrow if you have to in order to get through.? She identifies a lack of information as a major problem in the debt game as she identifies growing private loan debt as a major problem. ?Half of those taking out private loans have not maxed out on federal loans.?
Why the preference for federal loans with federal debt being such a hot topic? ?Federal loans are subject to income based payback, fixed interest rates, and take nine months to default on, making them a much safer loan for students to take,? Asher explains.? Conversely, private loans have done away with late fees, and in the fine print have redefined the right to claim default on the loan after missing a single payment.? Default is a one way ticket to bad credit.? ?Any ding in credit rating can affect [a borrower] more now than ever, even employment,? says Asher.
Asher argues, however, that higher education ?is still the best investment in your future.? The college degree is getting more and more weight as political leaders are calling for upwards of 60% national higher education attainment by 2025.? ?The demand for higher education is increasing.? When the economy is down, more people demand higher education to give an edge in the job market, but have less money to finance it,? explains Asher.
Debt and Community Colleges
If you are under the impression that only four-year schools are subject to debt, think again.? Of those students completing an associate?s degree from a community college in 2008, 38% graduated with debt.? In the for-profit sector of two-year degrees, over 90% have debt.? The average debt load at a public two-year institution is $7,000.
One community college, Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Mich., is offering a one-time student debt amnesty program that will allow students who owed a balance prior to or including the winter 2012 semester to afford to return to the college. The program ?offers the opportunity for students to pay 50% of what is owed on their account to settle their debt with the College.?? Will this become a norm within the two-year degree space as more and more debt is accumulated?
The Cost of Debt
Of this $1.2 trillion in student debt, about $1 trillion is in federal student loans.? This figure does not tell the full story, however, as the $1.2 trillion does not include funds students must divert away from retirement savings, parent borrowing, or credit card debt.? Asher explains that federal loans are ?income based repayment with a standard repayment plan of 10 years.? The more you borrow, the more it increases the cost of college and the cost will depend on the type of loan and how you pay it back as well as how much you take.?
President Obama is expected to sign the bipartisan Senate bill to tie federal student loan interest rates to the market this week.? On one side, this will reverse the interest rate hike that went into effect on July 1, lowering the current rates for undergraduate students from 6.8 to 3.8%. As the market climbs, however, these rates will climb until they reach a cap of 8.25%.? By TICAS calculation, this may cost families $715 million more over the next 10 years.
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Japan PM to call for stronger response to Fukushima water crisis: Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to call on Wednesday for a stronger response to try to stop highly radioactive water leaking into the ocean from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the Nikkei newspaper reported.
It also said the government would commit taxpayer money to halt the buildup of radioactive water at the plant.
On Monday, an official from Japan's nuclear watchdog told Reuters the leakage had become an "emergency", adding that the operator of the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), was struggling to contain the problem.
Tepco has been widely castigated for its failure to prepare for the massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated its Fukushima plant and lambasted for its inept response to the meltdown of three reactors at the facility, 200 km (125 miles) northeast of Tokyo.
The utility pumps out some 400 metric tons (440.92 tons) a day of groundwater flowing from the hills above the Fukushima Daiichi plant into the basements of the destroyed buildings, which mixes with highly irradiated water that is used to cool the reactors.
Tepco has said it is taking various measures to prevent the contaminated water from leaking into a bay near the plant. It also wants to stem the flow of groundwater before it reaches the reactors by channeling it around the plant and into the sea through a "bypass".
The Nikkei newspaper said the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry would seek funding in next fiscal year's budget for one proposed solution: freezing the soil to prevent groundwater from leaking into the reactor buildings.
The ministry would start assessing the cost of the effort this month and is expected to have a budget request ready by the end of the year, the Nikkei said.
It was not immediately clear how much of a threat the contaminated groundwater could pose. In the early weeks of the disaster, the Japanese government allowed Tepco to dump tens of thousands of tons of contaminated water into the Pacific in an emergency move.
In a bid to prevent more leaks, plant workers created an underground barrier by injecting chemicals to harden the ground along the shoreline of the No. 1 reactor building. But that barrier is only effective in solidifying the ground at least 1.8 meters below the surface.
(Writing by Dean Yates; Editing by Jim Loney)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/japan-pm-call-stronger-response-fukushima-water-crisis-220831263.html
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Sony NSZ-GU1 FCC filing hints at a post-Chromecast Google TV
We already heard from Google that it will press forward with its Google TV ambitions along with the new Chromecast dongle, and this FCC filing for a Sony device may reveal what the future holds. Dug up by GTVHacker team member cj_000, the NSZ-GU1 internet player has a model number that follows all of Sony's previous Google TV set-top boxes (NSZ-GT1, NSZ-GS7 and most recently the NSZ-GS8), so there's little doubt about which family it belongs to but there are other questions. Unlike Sony's previous Google TV hardware it actually has an FCC filing, dated June 20th and credited to manufacturer Wistron, and it comes with a USB cable. The notes also show a test layout (after the break) suspiciously similar to the one found in Google's FCC documents for the H2G2-42 Chromecast.
Does this mean it's a Sony-branded Chromecast device? While it's possible, there are a few differences that suggest it isn't. The NSZ-GU1 has an IR blaster like other Google TV boxes, and Bluetooth where the Chromecast doesn't include either. The power adapter it's tested with also could be overkill for a simple dongle-like device, but its input rating is very similar to what's listed on the MST3K power adapter that shipped with the Chromecast. We couldn't find any other information to base a final decision on, hit the source link to take a peek at the filing for yourself and see if there are any clues we may have missed.
Source: FCC, CJ Heres (Twitter)
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