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Maik:

--- Quote ---Greek Holiday Home Market Making Comeback

The Greek market for holiday homes is picking up pace with going prices for properties on main island destinations increasing in the first half of year and breaking a decade-long standstill.

Experts add that the positive trend could have been even stronger but a considerable number of unsold villas – estimated at 30,000-40,000 – has hindered upward price trends.
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https://news.gtp.gr/2018/08/09/greek-holiday-home-market-making-comeback

Maik:

--- Quote ---Facebook 'must stop migrants being lured to their deaths'
EXCLUSIVE: 800 Facebook pages linked to immigration crime, says National Crime Agency

Facebook was today accused of allowing migrants to be lured to their death in the Mediterranean as Britain’s top law enforcement body hit out over the tech giant’s failure to stop people smugglers advertising on its network.

The National Crime Agency said it had found more than 800 Facebook pages that were linked to organised crime gangs involved in ferrying migrants into and across Europe for money.

It said the pages included adverts for “vessels, documents and transport services” and instructions on where to meet to board boats used to send them across the sea.
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/facebook-must-stop-migrants-being-lured-to-their-deaths-a3907461.html

Maik:

--- Quote ---Hackable implanted medical devices could cause deaths, researchers say

A range of implanted medical devices with nine newly discovered security vulnerabilities won’t be fixed by the manufacturer, despite the possibility that, if abused, the weaknesses could lead to injury or death.

In new research presented at the Black Hat information security conference, a pair of security researchers remotely disabled an implantable insulin pump, preventing it from delivering the lifesaving medication, and then took total control of a pacemaker system, allowing them to deliver malware directly to the computers implanted in a patient’s body.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/09/implanted-medical-devices-hacking-risks-medtronic



--- Quote ---Hacked satellite systems could launch microwave-like attacks, expert warns

The satellite communications that ships, planes and the military use to connect to the internet are vulnerable to hackers that, in the worst-case scenario, could carry out “cyber-physical attacks”, turning satellite antennas into weapons that operate, essentially, like microwave ovens.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/news-blog/2018/aug/09/satellite-system-hacking-attacks-ships-planes-military

Maik:
Firefox 61.0.2 recently released, more info.

Maik:

--- Quote ---Wildfires on Zakynthos under control

Two forest fires that were raging in Zakynthos on Thursday in the areas of Macherado and Koiliomenos, on Friday were set under control.
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http://int.ert.gr/wildfires-on-zakynthos-under-control/

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