av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 28, 2016 | Notiser
Fängelse för huvudmän i stort bedrägerimål
Det blev fängelsestraff i 18 till 22 månader för de tre huvudmän som lurat tusentals småföretagare på pengar. Tolv telefonförsäljare döms till villkorliga domar.En 37-åring, hemmahörande i Malmö, döms till fängelse för grov stöld och grovt bedrägeri i ett år och tio månader. En 36-åring med adress i Malmötrakten döms för grovt bedrägeri till fängelse i ett år och sex månader. Ytterligare en 37-årig skåning döms för grovt bedrägeri och skattebrott till fängelse i ett år och åtta månader.De huvudåtalade döms också att betala till skadestånd till lurade företagare och till näringsförbud i fem år. Bara cirka 140 av de drabbade har hörts under rättegången. När det gäller de cirka 1 850 som inte medverkat i rättegången utan bara i polisförhör anser domstolen att bevisningen inte räcker och därför får de inte heller skadestånd.
Källa: Fängelse för huvudmän i stort bedrägerimål | SVT Nyheter
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 28, 2016 | Notiser
Osram Lightify light bulbs ’vulnerable to hack’
Security researchers have discovered nine vulnerabilities in a range of internet-connected light bulbs made by Osram.The flaws in the Lightify products could give attackers access to a home wi-fi network, and potentially operate the lights without permission.Osram said a ”majority” of the problems would be fixed in a software update in August, but four remained unpatched.One security expert said Osram had made an ”elementary” mistake.Osram’s Lightify range features internet-connected light bulbs that can be controlled using a smartphone app.Researcher Deral Heiland from Rapid7 discovered nine vulnerabilities in the Home and Pro range and reported them to the manufacturer.
Källa: Osram Lightify light bulbs ’vulnerable to hack’ – BBC News
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 28, 2016 | Lästips
Osram Lightify light bulbs ’vulnerable to hack’
Security researchers have discovered nine vulnerabilities in a range of internet-connected light bulbs made by Osram.The flaws in the Lightify products could give attackers access to a home wi-fi network, and potentially operate the lights without permission.Osram said a ”majority” of the problems would be fixed in a software update in August, but four remained unpatched.One security expert said Osram had made an ”elementary” mistake.Osram’s Lightify range features internet-connected light bulbs that can be controlled using a smartphone app.Researcher Deral Heiland from Rapid7 discovered nine vulnerabilities in the Home and Pro range and reported them to the manufacturer.
Källa: Osram Lightify light bulbs ’vulnerable to hack’ – BBC News
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 28, 2016 | Notiser
Oracle buys enterprise cloud services company NetSuite for $9.3B
Oracle will acquire NetSuite for about $9.3 billion, or $109 per share in an all-cash deal, the companies announced Thursday. Both Oracle and NetSuites cloud service offerings aimed at enterprise customers will continue to operate and coexist in the marketplace forever, according to a statement by Oracle CEO Mark Hurd.
Hurd called NetSuite and Oracles offerings complementary in the release, adding that Oracle intends to continue to invest in the engineering and distribution aspects of both companys products going forward.
Eighteen-year-old NetSuite claims a dominant position in the cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) space, whoch includes offerings to help businesses track supply and demand, inventory, accounting, customer relationships (CRM) and HR. The ERP industry has been an active space for M&A and general consolidation over the past few years, and Oracle in general has been an aggressive acquirer of smaller companies throughout 2016, with recent pick-ups including Opower and Textura. Oracles acquisition of NetSuite dwarfs its previous 2016 acquisitions in total deal value, though it still ranks below the all-time leader PeopleSoft, whoch Oracle acquired for a heady $10.3 billion way back in 2004, when such stratospheric values were even more uncommon.
Källa: Oracle buys enterprise cloud services company NetSuite for $9.3B | TechCrunch
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 28, 2016 | Nöje
Madam President
As the very first female presidential nominee of a major party, Democrat Hillary Clinton is already in a historic position. Come November, she could achieve another milestone: becoming the first Madam President in United States history. Yet behind the groundbreaking nature of Clintons candidacy lies an absence of women in elected office; in terms of female representation at the national level, the U.S. lags behind much of the rest of the world.
Created in collaboration between FiveThirtyEight and Rutgers Universitys Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), the video here is an exploration of this disparity and the real difference that gender, regardless of party, can make.
Of course, what you see would not have been possible without the talents of FiveThirtyEight’s Art Director, Kate LaRue, the art and animation skills of Tom McCarten, music + sound design from Redhorse Studio, and data viz guidance from Ella Koeze. Additional thanks goes out to Debbie Walsh at CAWP and Barbara Burrell, both of whom were extremely generous with their time and research.
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CREDITS:
Writer, Producer and Narrator
CHRISTINE LASKOWSKI
Designer and Animator
TOM McCARTEN
Music and Sound Designer
REDHORSE STUDIO
Art Director
KATE LARUE
Data Journalists
ELLA KOEZE
KSHITIJ ARANKE
Production Assistants
LUCINA MELESIO
JORGE ESTRADA
Director of Video Development
ADAM NEUHAUS
Director of Video Production
RYAN NANTELL
Senior Politics Editor
MICAH COHEN
Special thanks to:
DEBBIE WALSH and BARBARA BURRELL
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SOURCES:
Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics
Rutgers University
U.S. Census Bureau, 1991-2016
Inter-Parliamentary Union
Pew Research Center
Gallup
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in collaboration
with the
Center for American Women and Politics
FiveThirtyEight fivethirtyeight.com
