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Friday, March 30, 2012

Hot Topic: Keeping Data Secure at the Coffee Shop - News - ABA ...

In an increasingly connected world, lawyers at a coffee shop, a hotel or the airport may jump online to check email, get some work done or send a tweet. But that freedom to access the Internet practically whenever and wherever we want carries risks from thieves, hackers and nosy neighbors?a possible ethical violations of client privacy.

Explaining how to avoid some of those perils was the task of two legal technology experts Thursday at an ABA Techshow presentation called the ?Coffee Shop Office: The Ethics of Mobile Computing.?

Co-presenters Sharon D. Nelson, president of Sensei Enterprises, a computer forensics and technology firm based in Farifax, Va., and Tom Mighell, a lawyer and senior consultant with the Dallas-based firm Contoural, offered security tips for using laptops, smartphones and tablets over a public WiFi network. (Mighell was a last-minute stand-in for ABA Journal legal technology writer Dennis Kennedy, who couldn?t attend due to a health problem.)

Nelson cited a study showing that the number of wireless hotspots would grow more than fourfold to nearly 6 million by 2015.

While all lawyers know they have a duty to protect confidential data, she said, they too often regard the threat to confidentiality as more theoretical than real.

?We don?t like to be disconnected, but the more connected we are, the more we have to be careful about how we use? wireless technology, she said.

She and Mighell said users should make sure they are using a secure HTTPS protocol rather than the HTTP protocol and have a secure, 12-character alphanumeric password to log on to their laptops.

Mighell recommended a specific website called Shields Up, that will scan and determine the security vulnerabilities on your computer. He also said that while both Windows and Mac OSX operating systems have basic built-in firewall programs, they don?t offer enough protection.

Mighell also recommended turning off file-sharing unless there is a particular reason for having it on, and to have only one public folder for files that can be shared only when needed.

He and Nelson also recommended scanning your mobile device for malware after using any public WiFi network. And Mighell suggested investing in a good data loss protection program that will detect, monitor and prevent data from leaving your system.

Source: http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/hot_topic_keeping_data_secure_at_the_coffee_shop/

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Anti-insect wheat trials launched

28 March 2012 Last updated at 12:55 ET

By David Shukman Science editor, BBC News

The first experiments with plants genetically modified to repel aphids are under way in the UK.

Wheat has been engineered with a gene from a peppermint plant so that it emits a particular pheromone.

The smell is the alarm signal given off by aphids to warn of an attack by predators.

The researchers hope that this will act as a "no parking sign" to keep the pests at bay without needing insecticide.

This is the first trial of a plant deliberately modified to use pheromones to ward off pests.

The work is taking place at Rothamsted Research, the plant science centre in Hertfordshire.

Eight plots of land - each six metres by 6m - have been planted with the GM wheat in the past few days.

Aphids are one of the major threats to the cultivation of wheat in the UK and other countries.

Professor Maurice Moloney, director of Rothamsted Research, has described the insects as a "ten billion dollar problem".

'Proven' technique

The idea of creating a variety of wheat that could use smell to repel insects was first mooted in 1985.

According to Professor John Pickett, Rothamsted's scientific leader on chemical ecology, tests have proved the technique in the lab.

"The aim is to use natural processes instead of pesticides and address the public's concerns about pesticide use," he said.

The trials are being conducted behind security fencing to keep out animals and to guard against environmental protestors.

One set of wheat in the experiment is fitted with the peppermint gene only; another set has also been engineered with a synthetic gene.

The goal is to see if the plants give off a highly pure version of the pheromone, known as A-Farnesene.

Experiments have shown that the aphids' sense of smell is highly sensitive; the insects will not react if they suspect the pheromone has been released by a plant.

A further aim is to see if the pheromone attracts the aphids' main predator, the tiny parasitic wasp.

Negative publicity

Lab tests show that the smell has the twin effect of repelling aphids and luring the wasps.

One possible risk, raised during a briefing, is that the pests are driven from the GM wheat on to neighbouring crops.

The researchers say that existing wheat fields are protected by pesticides and wild plants have their own defence mechanisms.

The scientists are hoping that GM plants which cut insecticide use will help gain support for this controversial technology.

The science suffered a setback a decade ago amid negative publicity and public nervousness about GM food.

Britain's major supermarket chains do not stock GM food and approval for GM crops has to be given by the European Union.

Trials like this one, which are purely for research, can be authorised by national governments.

The widespread view among plant scientists is that the challenge of feeding a global population of seven billion requires genetic modification.

But they face a struggle to win over retailers and politicians not just in Britain but in the EU as well.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/science-environment-17542627

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UK hacking scandal claims 3rd senior police figure

FILE - This is a July 19, 2011 file photo of Metropolitan Police Director of Public Affairs and Internal Communication Dick Fedorcio, as he gives evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on the News of the World phone-hacking scandal in this image taken from TV in Portcullis House in central London. Scotland Yard's Dick Fedorcio resigned Thursday March 29, 2012 after the force decided he would face disciplinary proceedings over a contract awarded to a former executive at Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid. (AP Photo/PA, File) UNITED KINGDOM OUT

LONDON (AP) ? Scotland Yard's communications chief resigned Thursday, the third senior police figure to part with his job over the force's failure to come to grips with Britain's phone hacking scandal.

Dick Fedorcio stepped down after the force decided he would face disciplinary proceedings over a contract awarded to a former executive at Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid. The Independent Police Complaints Commission ruled that Fedorcio had to answer questions over the decision to hire Neil Wallis, the former News of the World executive later arrested on suspicion of breaking into voicemails.

The links between senior members of the News of the World and Scotland Yard have come under particularly close scrutiny because both organizations insisted for years that there was no evidence of widespread phone hacking at the tabloid.

Those assurances fell apart after it emerged that journalists at the paper routinely broke into the phones of celebrities and other public figures to score scoops or get leverage. Three parallel police inquiries, a cascade of lawsuits, and a judge-led inquiry have since lifted the lid on a host of illegal practices, from large-scale bribery to computer hacking.

The scandal's fallout has shaken Britain's establishment. The News of the World has been shut, the country's press watchdog has been scrapped, and dozens of journalists, executives, and public officials have either resigned, been suspended or been arrested over their role in the scandal.

Among them are former Scotland Yard chief Paul Stephenson and ex-Assistant Commissioner John Yates, both of whom resigned in July. Fedorcio's decision was announced Thursday, but he'd been on extended leave since August.

Politicians also have been drawn into the scandal. Kit Malthouse, London's deputy mayor for policing and crime, was asked why he had challenged police about the resources they were pouring into the phone hacking investigation.

Malthouse, called before the judge-led inquiry on Thursday, defended his skepticism, saying that the phone hacking investigation is projected to draw in some 200 people by 2013.

"That's the equivalent of eight murder squads," he said.

Associated Press

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Access to pill boosts women's earnings - study

By Linda Carroll, msnbc.com contributor

A new study may add tinder to the debate over whether the federal government ought to require health insurance plans to pay for? contraception. New research shows that access to birth control pills over the past 50 years has translated into higher pay and better careers for women.

After scrutinizing data from a multidecade survey, University of Michigan researchers determined that women who had access to birth control pills when they were in their late teens and early 20s tended to be better educated and better paid 20 years later compared to women who couldn?t get oral contraceptives.?Women who had early access to the pill were making 8 percent more than those who didn?t.

?Arguably the pill had some pretty big benefits for these women,? said the study?s lead author Martha J. Bailey, an assistant professor of economics at the university. ?I certainly would like an 8 percent pay raise.?

The new study,?published as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, used data from two long-term surveys: one that looked at health and another that looked at labor force outcomes. Both tracked women for decades.

The labor force study was started in 1968 and included 4,300 women who were between 14 and 24 at the time of their first interview. The women were reinterviewed every year until 2003.

Bailey and her colleagues were able to disentangle the impact of the pill from other factors, such as the women?s movement and equal opportunity laws, because many states in the 1960s and '70s only allowed women to get the pill on their own after their 21st birthday. Other states allowed women to get the pill when they turned 18.

So the researchers were able to compare the career trajectories and salaries of women who could get the pill at 18 versus those who had to wait until they were 21.

Data from the health study backed up the assumption that women between the ages of 18 and 21 were far more likely to get a prescription for the pill if they came from a state where they could legally get it on their own.

Early access to the pill changed many women?s life plans.

?Instead of deciding between dating and pursuing a career they could do both,? Bailey said.

The women who benefited the most from early access to the pill were those who came from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.

?One thing I think is important to point out is that we didn?t see a change in the number of children these women had, but we did see changes in when they decided to have them,? Bailey said. ?That slight delay in the birth of their first child translated into some pretty big gains in terms of lifetime earnings.?????

Source: http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/29/10905591-access-to-pill-boosts-womens-earnings-study

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