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Hiking apps prompt warnings after separate rescues from B.C.'s backcountryThe cyber threat detection solution is showcased in the Middle East for the first time [Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 25 November 2024] Group-IB, a leading creator of cybersecurity technologies to investigate, prevent, and fight digital crime, announced today that it will demonstrate its Proprietary Network Graph Analysis cyber threat detection solution for the first time in the Middle East during its participation at the Black Hat Middle East and Africa 2024 in Riyadh. Group-IB’s participation at the three-day world’s fastest growing and most attended cybersecurity event will also include its executive leadership delivering keynotes and taking part in a series of panel discussions. The event, in its third edition, will take place from November 26 to 28 at the Riyadh Exhibition & Convention Centre in Malham, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Group-IB’s presence at the Black Hat MEA will help deepen and strengthen their links with the wider Middle East region. The company launched its regional HQ in Dubai in 2023, which is also home to its MEA Threat Intelligence & Research Center. Group-IB said that the Proprietary Network Graph Analysis solution designed from scratch, has been incorporated into all of Group-IB’s solutions and has helped improve the threat detection process. It provides users with a visual heatmap of network infrastructures beyond an organization’s perimeter. The solution makes it easier to understand how threats are connected and where they originate, which in turn allows cybersecurity practitioners to more efficiently detect threats and effectively deal with them. The executive leaders of Group-IB at the Black Hat MEA speaking on November 27th include; Dmitriy Volkov, Chief Executive Officer, on the topic – `Differently: Centralized Collective Defense.’ Laith Samara, Presales Manager on `XDR in Action: Dissecting Real-World Attack Scenarios.’ Abdulmohsen Al Muqati, Head of Digital Forensics and Incident Response, Ivan Pisarev, Head of Threat Intelligence, MEA on ` A Unified Approach to Dissect Complex Attacks.’ On November 28 th , Craig Jones, Independent Strategic Advisor, Group-IB, will be speaking on the topic: Saudi Arabia & Global Cyber Governance: Shaping Policy for the Digital Age.’ ABOUT GROUP-IB Established in 2003, Group-IB is a leading creator of cybersecurity technologies to investigate, prevent, and fight digital crime globally. Headquartered in Singapore, and with Digital Crime Resistance Centers in the Middle East and Africa, Europe, Central Asia, and the Asia-Pacific, Group-IB analyses and neutralizes regional and country-specific cyber threats via its Unified Risk Platform , offering unparalleled defence through its industry-leading Threat Intelligence , Fraud Protection , Digital Risk Protection , Managed Extended Detection and Response (XDR) , Business Email Protection , and External Attack Surface Management solutions, catering to government, retail, healthcare, gaming, financial sectors, and beyond. Group-IB collaborates with international law enforcement agencies like INTERPOL, EUROPOL, and AFRIPOL to fortify cybersecurity worldwide, and has been awarded by advisory agencies including Aite-Novarica, Gartner, Forrester, Frost & Sullivan, and KuppingerCole. For more information, visit us at www.group-ib.com or connect with us on LinkedIn , X , Facebook , and Instagram . FOR MEDIA INQUIRIES Related
The Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team has gotten off to a fast start this season in more ways than one. The No. 16 Bearcats have raced to a 5-0 record while outscoring their opponents by more than 31 points per game, with just one team (Northern Kentucky) coming within 16 points. Cincinnati is averaging a robust 87 points per game with one of the more efficient offenses in college basketball. Cincinnati will look to continue that hot streak when it plays host to Alabama State in nonconference action Wednesday evening. Cincinnati has punished opposing defenses in a variety of ways this season. Despite being the No. 14 offense in the nation in Ken Pomeroy's efficiency ratings, the Bearcats aren't among the nation's leaders in pace. Still, they take advantage of those opportunities when they are there. "Us playing fast is something we want to do," Cincinnati forward Dillon Mitchell said. "When I was being recruited here, that was something Coach (Wes) Miller wanted to do. "There could be games where we're not making shots or something is off, but one thing is we're gonna push the ball, play hard and play fast. That's something he preaches. We'll be in shape and get rebounds." Mitchell is fresh off a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds in Cincinnati's 81-58 road win at Georgia Tech Saturday. He is one of four Bearcats to average double figures in scoring this season. That balance was on display once again against the Yellow Jackets, with Connor Hickman and Jizzle James also scoring 14 points each and Simas Lukosius contributing 12 points. In that game, Cincinnati sank 51.6 percent of its shots while regularly getting out into transition with 16 fastbreak points, while winning the rebounding battle 36-29. "Any time you get a road win over a quality, Power 4 team, you're gonna feel good about it," Miller said. "I was pleased with our effort." Lukosius is scoring 16.6 points per game, while James is at 14.0 points, followed by Mitchell at 12.4, while he also grabs a team-best 8.6 rebounds. Alabama State (3-3) has a tough task ahead, especially when considering its 97-78 loss at Akron Sunday, which ended a three-game winning streak. The Hornets allowed the Zips to shoot 46.4 percent from the field and were 53-32 in the rebounding battle. Alabama State gave up a season high in points, after playing the likes of LSU and UNLV earlier this season. Akron standout Nate Johnson lit up Alabama State for 25 points, as the game got away from the Hornets in the second half to keep them winless in true road games. Alabama leading scorers CJ Hines and TJ Madlock still got theirs against Akron, scoring 19 and 17 points, respectively. They were joined in double figures by reserve Tyler Mack (18 points), but recent history says they'll need more help to keep up with the Bearcats. Hines leads the Hornets with 15.7 points per game, while Madlock contributes 14.5 points. In previous Akron Basketball Classic wins last week against Omaha and Lamar, Alabama State featured at least four double-digit scorers in each game. --Field Level MediaALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Google, already facing a possible breakup of the company over its ubiquitous search engine , is fighting to beat back another attack by the U.S. Department of Justice alleging monopolistic conduct, this time over technology that puts online advertising in front of consumers. The Justice Department and Google made closing arguments Monday in a trial alleging Google's advertising technology constitutes an illegal monopoly. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, will decide the case and is expected to issue a written ruling by the end of the year. If Brinkema finds Google has engaged in illegal, monopolistic conduct, she will then hold further hearings to explore what remedies should be imposed. The Justice Department, along with a coalition of states, has already said it believes Google should be forced to sell off parts of its ad tech business, which generates tens of billions of dollars annually for the Mountain View, California-based company. After roughly a month of trial testimony earlier this year, the arguments in the case remain the same. During three hours of arguments Monday, Brinkema, who sometimes tips her hand during legal arguments, did little to indicate how she might rule. She did, though, question the applicability of a key antitrust case Google cites in its defense. The Justice Department contends Google built and maintained a monopoly in “open-web display advertising,” essentially the rectangular ads that appear on the top and right-hand side of the page when one browses websites. Google dominates all facets of the market. A technology called DoubleClick is used pervasively by news sites and other online publishers, while Google Ads maintains a cache of advertisers large and small looking to place their ads on the right webpage in front of the right consumer. In between is another Google product, AdExchange, that conducts nearly instantaneous auctions matching advertisers to publishers. In court papers, Justice Department lawyers say Google “is more concerned with acquiring and preserving its trifecta of monopolies than serving its own publisher and advertiser customers or winning on the merits.” As a result, content providers and news organizations have never been able to generate the online revenue they should due to Google’s excessive fees for brokering transactions between advertisers and publishers, the government says. Google argues the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow niche of online advertising. If one looks more broadly at online advertising to include social media, streaming TV services, and app-based advertising, Google says it controls as little as 10% of the market, a share that is dwindling as it faces increased and evolving competition. Google alleges in court papers that the government’s lawsuit “boil(s) down to the persistent complaints of a handful of Google’s rivals and several mammoth publishers.” Google also says it has invested billions in technology that facilitates the efficient match of advertisers to interested consumers and it should not be forced to share its technology and success with competitors. “Requiring a company to do further engineering work to make its technology and customers accessible by all of its competitors on their preferred terms has never been compelled by U.S. antitrust law,” the company wrote. Brinkema, during Monday's arguments, also sought clarity on Google’s market share, a number the two sides dispute, depending on how broadly the market is defined. Historically, courts have been unwilling to declare an illegal monopoly in markets in which a company holds less than a 70% market share. Google says that when online display advertising is viewed as a whole, it holds only a 10% market share, and dwindling. The Justice Department contends, though, that when focusing on open-web display advertising, Google controls 91% of the market for publisher ad servers and 87% of the market for advertiser ad networks. Google says that the “open web display advertising” market is gerrymandered by the Justice Department to make Google look bad, and that nobody in the industry looks at that category of ads without considering the ability of advertisers to switch to other forms of advertising, like in mobile apps. The Justice Department also contends that the public is harmed by the excessive rates Google charges to facilitate ad purchases, saying the company takes 36 cents on the dollar when it facilitates the transaction end to end. Google says its “take rate” has dropped to 31% and continues to decrease, and it says that rate is lower than that of its competitors. “When you have an integrated system, one of the benefits is lower prices," Google lawyer Karen Dunn said Monday. The Virginia case is separate from an ongoing lawsuit brought against Google in the District of Columbia over its namesake search engine. In that case, the judge determined it constitutes an illegal monopoly but has not decided what remedy to impose. The Justice Department said last week it will seek to force Google to sell its Chrome web browser , among a host of other penalties. Google has said the department's request is overkill and unhinged from legitimate regulation. In Monday's arguments, Justice Department lawyer Aaron Teitelbaum cited the search engine case when he highlighted an email from a Google executive, David Rosenblatt, who said in a 2009 email that Google’s goal was to “do to display what Google did to search," which Teitelbaum said showed the company's intent to achieve market dominance. “Google did not achieve its trifecta of monopolies by accident,” Teitelbaum said. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Get the latest local business news delivered FREE to your inbox weekly.41 Gifts They'll Think Cost You A Fortune But Are Under $50
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BY MELISSA GOLDIN Social media users are misrepresenting a Vermont Supreme Court ruling , claiming that it gives schools permission to vaccinate children even if their parents do not consent. The ruling addressed a lawsuit filed by Dario and Shujen Politella against Windham Southeast School District and state officials over the mistaken vaccination of their child against COVID-19 in 2021, when he was 6 years old. A lower court had dismissed the original complaint, as well as an amended version. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was filed on Nov. 19. But the ruling by Vermont’s high court is not as far-reaching as some online have claimed. In reality, it concluded that anyone protected under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, or PREP, Act is immune to state lawsuits. Here’s a closer look at the facts. CLAIM: The Vermont Supreme Court ruled that schools can vaccinate children against their parents’ wishes. THE FACTS: The claim stems from a July 26 ruling by the Vermont Supreme Court, which found that anyone protected by the PREP Act is immune to state lawsuits, including the officials named in the Politella’s suit. The ruling does not authorize schools to vaccinate children at their discretion. According to the lawsuit, the Politella’s son — referred to as L.P. — was given one dose of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic held at Academy School in Brattleboro even though his father, Dario, told the school’s assistant principal a few days before that his son was not to receive a vaccination. In what officials described as a mistake, L.P. was removed from class and had a “handwritten label” put on his shirt with the name and date of birth of another student, L.K., who had already been vaccinated that day. L.P. was then vaccinated. Ultimately, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that officials involved in the case could not be sued. “We conclude that the PREP Act immunizes every defendant in this case and this fact alone is enough to dismiss the case,” the Vermont Supreme Court’s ruling reads. “We conclude that when the federal PREP Act immunizes a defendant, the PREP Act bars all state-law claims against that defendant as a matter of law.” The PREP Act , enacted by Congress in 2005, authorizes the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a declaration in the event of a public health emergency providing immunity from liability for activities related to medical countermeasures, such as the administration of a vaccine, except in cases of “willful misconduct” that result in “death or serious physical injury.” A declaration against COVID-19 was issued on March 17, 2020. It is set to expire on Dec. 31. Federals suits claiming willful misconduct are filed in Washington. Social media users described the Vermont Supreme Court’s ruling as having consequences beyond what it actually says. “The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that schools can force-vaccinate children for Covid against the wishes of their parents,” reads one X post that had been liked and shared approximately 16,600 times as of Tuesday. “The high court ruled on a case involving a 6-year-old boy who was forced to take a Covid mRNA injection by his school. However, his family had explicitly stated that they didn’t want their child to receive the ‘vaccines.’” Other users alleged that the ruling gives schools permission to give students any vaccine without parental consent, not just ones for COVID-19. Rod Smolla, president of the Vermont Law and Graduate School and an expert on constitutional law, told The Associated Press that the ruling “merely holds that the federal statute at issue, the PREP Act, preempts state lawsuits in cases in which officials mistakenly administer a vaccination without consent.” “Nothing in the Vermont Supreme Court opinion states that school officials can vaccinate a child against the instructions of the parent,” he wrote in an email. Related Articles National News | Judge weighs whether to order Fani Willis to comply with lawmakers’ subpoenas over Trump case National News | Are you a former SmileDirectClub customer? You might be eligible for a refund National News | Justice Department announces sweeping reforms to curb suicides in federal prisons and jails National News | Defense makes closing argument in murder trial of Cash App founder Bob Lee National News | Homeownership is getting unaffordable for the middle class Asked whether the claims spreading online have any merit, Ronald Ferrara, an attorney representing the Politellas, told the AP that although the ruling doesn’t say schools can vaccinate students regardless of parental consent, officials could interpret it to mean that they could get away with doing so under the PREP Act, at least when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines. He explained that the U.S. Supreme Court appeal seeks to clarify whether the Vermont Supreme Court interpreted the PREP Act beyond what Congress intended. “The Politella’s fundamental liberty interest to decide whether their son should receive elective medical treatment was denied by agents of the State and School,” he wrote in an email to the AP. “The Vermont Court misconstrues the scope of PREP Act immunity (which is conditioned upon informed consent for medical treatments unapproved by FDA), to cover this denial of rights and its underlying battery.” Ferrara added that he was not aware of the claims spreading online, but that he “can understand how lay people may conflate the court’s mistaken grant of immunity for misconduct as tantamount to blessing such misconduct.”The Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team has gotten off to a fast start this season in more ways than one. The No. 16 Bearcats have raced to a 5-0 record while outscoring their opponents by more than 31 points per game, with just one team (Northern Kentucky) coming within 16 points. Cincinnati is averaging a robust 87 points per game with one of the more efficient offenses in college basketball. Cincinnati will look to continue that hot streak when it plays host to Alabama State in nonconference action Wednesday evening. Cincinnati has punished opposing defenses in a variety of ways this season. Despite being the No. 14 offense in the nation in Ken Pomeroy's efficiency ratings, the Bearcats aren't among the nation's leaders in pace. Still, they take advantage of those opportunities when they are there. "Us playing fast is something we want to do," Cincinnati forward Dillon Mitchell said. "When I was being recruited here, that was something Coach (Wes) Miller wanted to do. "There could be games where we're not making shots or something is off, but one thing is we're gonna push the ball, play hard and play fast. That's something he preaches. We'll be in shape and get rebounds." Mitchell is fresh off a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds in Cincinnati's 81-58 road win at Georgia Tech Saturday. He is one of four Bearcats to average double figures in scoring this season. That balance was on display once again against the Yellow Jackets, with Connor Hickman and Jizzle James also scoring 14 points each and Simas Lukosius contributing 12 points. In that game, Cincinnati sank 51.6 percent of its shots while regularly getting out into transition with 16 fastbreak points, while winning the rebounding battle 36-29. "Any time you get a road win over a quality, Power 4 team, you're gonna feel good about it," Miller said. "I was pleased with our effort." Lukosius is scoring 16.6 points per game, while James is at 14.0 points, followed by Mitchell at 12.4, while he also grabs a team-best 8.6 rebounds. Alabama State (3-3) has a tough task ahead, especially when considering its 97-78 loss at Akron Sunday, which ended a three-game winning streak. The Hornets allowed the Zips to shoot 46.4 percent from the field and were 53-32 in the rebounding battle. Alabama State gave up a season high in points, after playing the likes of LSU and UNLV earlier this season. Akron standout Nate Johnson lit up Alabama State for 25 points, as the game got away from the Hornets in the second half to keep them winless in true road games. Alabama leading scorers CJ Hines and TJ Madlock still got theirs against Akron, scoring 19 and 17 points, respectively. They were joined in double figures by reserve Tyler Mack (18 points), but recent history says they'll need more help to keep up with the Bearcats. Hines leads the Hornets with 15.7 points per game, while Madlock contributes 14.5 points. In previous Akron Basketball Classic wins last week against Omaha and Lamar, Alabama State featured at least four double-digit scorers in each game. --Field Level Media
US prosecutors seek to dismiss federal Trump casesDid you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. A striker and a left-sided centre-back remain on Hearts’ wishlist for the forthcoming January transfer window. However, injury to Stephen Kingsley adds greater importance to the latter of the two, according to head coach Neil Critchley. Kingsley requires surgery on a hamstring tear and will be sidelined for several months. Hearts want a forward with pace and mobility to add to their squad next month. They had also earmarked a left-footed central defender given clubs are showing interest in the Australian internationalist Kye Rowles. Losing Kingsley merely increases the need to strengthen in that department. “Potentially, yes,” explained Critchley. “It was still an area of the pitch that we were looking at anyway. With Stephen being out, that is something that we'll have to consider.” Advertisement Advertisement A striker has been a priority for some time, even before Critchley arrived in Gorgie in mid-October. “It goes without saying, you always want strikers to be able to score goals,” he said. “I also think they've got to complement the players that are already here. “I sometimes feel slightly uncomfortable talking about January when we're at the start of December because lots can change, i.e. a Stephen Kingsley situation or injuries. It's hard for me to talk in great confidence in saying this and this because things can change. Is that an area of the pitch we'd like to strengthen? Yes, of course it is.” Lawrence Shankland’s goal drought hasn’t helped as the club captain runs down his Hearts contract. That is not a major issue influencing the striker search, though. “No, I just think we need competition,” said Critchley. “If you ever bring in a player to the club, particularly on a permanent deal, then you've always got the short term but the long term - what it's going to look like in the future. READ MORE: Hearts injury update on Baningime, Kent and Kingsley Advertisement Advertisement “That then fits into your strategy of a football club and the identity you want your team to have in the future. Do those players fit your way of playing, how you want to play the game? Anyone we want to bring in has got to fit into what we're hoping is going to be the heart, weight, our identity for the long term.” Hearts’ busy schedule this season places extra strain on players and leads to injuries, such as Kingsley’s. He was stretchered off against Aberdeen last weekend before fellow defender Frankie Kent was also substituted with a quad muscle injury. Beni Baningime did not train on Friday due to a knee issue and Critchley admitted the demands of domestic and European football combined have had an impact. “Yes, it has. Touch wood. Until that [recent] period, we haven't had injuries in my time here at the club. I'd like to think that through my previous experiences and how to manage your week, how to manage your training load, you try to minimise them as much as you can. Sometimes, unfortunately, injuries are part and parcel of football. “I'd like to think how we periodise our week and month, days off, recovery, training, appropriate training, how hard we train them, slight rotations of players and freshness, you try to minimise that as much as possible. Sometimes you're trying to avoid the muscle injuries as much as you can but it's been well-documented and well-publicised in the last 12 months about the amount of games and the amount of injuries. They're on the increase significantly. Games come non-stop - midweek, weekend. Advertisement Advertisement “I wouldn't say I've changed anything because to play the way we want to play, you have to train a certain way. It's just using your staff around you, good communication, preparing, talking about every player, putting a lot of time and effort into what's right for every single player, every game, every day. That's the conversations we have and you try to put all that information that we get, all the data, and put that all into helping you make the best informed decision on how to take the appropriate care for every single individual.” Adding pace to Hearts’ forward line can be done before January with the return of Japanese winger Yutaro Oda. Critchley has liked what he has seen of Oda in training but injuries and illness have prevented him deploying the winger in matches to date. He is available to face Dundee on Saturday. “Yutaro would have been involved last week. He was actually due to be on the bench against [Cercle] Brugge but he was sick prior to the game,” said the head coach. “He was actually there, he was on the teamsheet. We had to change the team sheet prior to the game. “Yutaro is fit, he missed the Aberdeen game still through illness but he's trained this week. so he'll be in contention. Calem [Nieuwenhof] has been progressing, doing more training, more team training. He's been on a little bit of steady progression of non-contact, partial training and then he'll join in full team training. He's getting towards that point but then he'll probably still need a few weeks to be ready or to be considered for a matchday squad. READ MORE: Hearts expected XI v Dundee Advertisement Advertisement “When Calem does return, then he's like every single other player: As soon as you cross the white line you're there to do your best and play to your ability. You get judged like everyone else. Internally that might be different, we can understand where he's at and what he needs and Calem will need a bit of time but I'm confident with the work that he's been doing and how he's been working. He's so conscientious about how he works that when he returns he'll be good to go.” Hearts sit bottom of the Premiership and consequently need points against Dundee. They recorded five defeats and a draw in their last seven games in all competitions. Critchley is content with performance levels and insisted there is no issue with morale at Riccarton. He is convinced his team can move clear of the relegation zone over the coming weeks. “Our form has been good, we've played well in the games,” he said. “We've actually drawn confidence and been buoyed by how we've played. We’ve just missed the last little bit, that is it. We should have beaten Aberdeen last weekend, we were the better team. We should have won the game. That's against a team who's flying high and won game after game in this league. “If you look at our performances against Aberdeen, we've more than matched them home anyway. Celtic, Rangers, the European games - there's been no dip in morale at all. In fact, I think it's been the opposite. I think we've drawn confidence and belief in what we've been doing. What we've got to do now is turn that into results because that's the business, that's what we're in. Advertisement Advertisement “If you look at a lot of the games we've played recently, it's been isolated moments. It's not like we've been camped in our own half and there's been shot after shot, it's three or four goals and you're thinking: ‘We've got a real problem.’ We've got to make sure in those isolated moments where we're harder to score against, we're better concentrated, more competitive and we make slightly better decisions in our own penalty area. “That prevents those moments from happening. That's the work that hopefully we can try to do as much as we can on the training pitch with the limited time that we get. It's quite a simple format and I keep coming back to it. We just need to do better at both ends of the pitch.” Despite a potentially-pivotal UEFA Conference League tie away to FC Copenhagen lying just days away, Critchley wants Hearts simply to focus on Dundee. “Without a doubt. We prepare the same for every single game, regardless of who we're playing against: Celtic, Rangers, Dundee, Copenhagen next week, Cercle Brugge the other week - we prepare exactly the same way. “We give full focus to the opposition and then we try and concentrate on how we're going to play in that game to give us the best chance of winning the game. So, all our conversation this week and all our focus is on Dundee, Tynecastle, Saturday, 3pm, and how do we win that game?”
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