Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked
Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks. The attack can force heavily secured computers to spill documents that likely were presumed to be safe. This discovery shows one way that spies and other richly financed attackers can acquire military and trade secrets, and comes as worries about state-sponsored computer espionage intensify, underscored by recent hacking attacks on Google Inc.
— Associated Press – 201002081231
New federal climate change agency forming
The Obama administration is forming a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, planned to announce Monday that NOAA will set up the new Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA's National Weather Service and National Ocean Service.
— Associated Press – 201002080941
Super Bowl Sunday patrol nets 7
alleged drunken drivers in Oxnard
Police patrolling the streets of Oxnard for drunken drivers on Super Bowl Sunday arrested seven people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol, officials said. The arrests were made during a saturation patrol that lasted from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday, Oxnard police officials said. The effort included 90 traffic stops and 12 investigations of suspected driving under the influence. Two of the seven suspected drunken drivers arrested allegedly had blood alcohol levels nearly twice the legal limit, including one driver who was under 21, police said.
— Ventura County Star – 201002080700
LA-area cleans up from storms, new round coming
Homeowners shoveled mud from living rooms and workers scooped debris from catch basins in a foothill neighborhood slammed by weekend rains as yet another storm takes aim at the region. Evacuated residents were allowed back into the mud-caked La Canada Flintridge area north of Los Angeles Sunday, where a day earlier 43 homes were damaged by rain-spawned mudslides. Nine of them were so badly damaged they've been deemed uninhabitable. More than 500 homes were evacuated as mud and debris - surging down from foothills denuded of undercover by autumn wildfires - overflowed basins and flooded streets. The power of the weekend storm surprised many.
— Associated Press – 201002080549
— La Cañada Flintridge digs out as a new storm nears — LAT – 20100208
California cracks down on discount health plans
State regulators are trying to rein in discount health and
dental plans that officials say frequently overstate benefits.
At a time when nearly 7 million Californians are uninsured, state regulators are trying to rein in discount health and dental plans that officials say frequently overstate benefits, offer little if any savings and promise access to doctors who aren't part of the system. Some of the discounters fraudulently market themselves as insurance, while preying on the poor, the elderly and others who urgently need care, officials say. "They're basically cheating poor people," said Dr. Dev GnanaDev, immediate past president of the California Medical Assn.
— Los Angeles Times – 20100208
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