noticias-actualidad – Sac State Sigmas

Vulnerability detected in Android, the mobile operating system of Google, has made that organization of consumers FACUA has requested the Spanish Agency of data protection your intervention investigate if violated the principle of security of the data by the American multinational. Vulnerability is that the system allows third party access to the data contained in the mobile through wifi open networks to which the user access to connect to the Internet. With this security hole data contained in the device such as phones, photographs, general information, addresses, passwords, etc. would be within the reach of any other user on the same wifi network. According to a study conducted by the University of Ulm in Germany, this bug affects 99.7% of Android users which has led to the claim by FACUA. The Association advised until the incidence is not resolved not to use applications using open wifi networks.

Google has detected the fault and has communicated you are trying to solve it as soon as possible, having turned out the problem in two of the three applications affected by the same. The ultimate solution will be operational in the coming days and will be distributed worldwide through an update of the operating system. This is not the first investigation requested by FACUA, in recent months has submitted requests for investigation with the Spanish data protection agency by the problems that have occurred in the Sony PlayStation and by different security problems detected in the social network Facebook.

Mirentxu Marino 20 m do not get sufficient humanitarian aid to the critical area of Somalia, South: lack of money, personnel, there is no central Government and an armed conflict exists. Staple foods are important, but also contribute to the sustainability of the country helping farmers and ranchers in the area. There are thousands of displaced persons, mostly to Kenya and Ethiopia, where there are refugee camps; several NGOs, the UN and other organizations working in the field. Read the digital encounter with Alfonso Verdu, of doctors without borders. Many of the Somali people that we see these days crossing the desert or in the refugee camps of Kenya and Ethiopia will not already in your photographs.

Probably, because they will have died. Nations United, several NGOs and, above all, cooperators and informants in the Horn of Africa has been months warning about a situation that, rather than criticism, is unsustainable. The most serious drought in 60 years in the area already affects ten million people. And, according to those who know about the crisis, could have been avoided. The aim is now to help; and fast.

Organizations trying to get water, food, health care and agricultural and monetary resources to the most affected area: southern Somalia. But it is not easy, because the rebel militias of Al – Shabaab, linked to Al – Qaeda, had vetoed until two weeks ago the entry of humanitarian aid. In fact, in the last hours there has been tension and denials about whether or not this lock is existing. That is why there are many displaced – nearly one quarter of the population – of those million and a half making it within the country. The key to solve this, according to Intermon Oxfam (IO), is the money. 1 Billion euros are needed and an immediate reaction of the international community, if not, the next three months will be very hard, explained the spokesman of IO, Lara Contreras; It says because the rainy season does not begin until October.