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Billions in available EC fundingThe development minister said on Thursday there are European Commission funds of 12 billion euros that are immediately available to support growth in Greece by subsidizing projects across the country.
Smart meters widely used in Spain can be hacked to under-report energy use, security researchers have found.Poorly protected credentials inside the devices could let attackers take control over the gadgets, warn the researchers."We took them apart to see how they work," said independent researcher Javier Vidal who, with Alberto Illera, found the flaws in the smart meters. Attackers could use what Mr Vidal and Mr Illera found to under-report energy use or to get someone else to pay their bill by using their ID in messages sent back to the nodes that log usage. With more work it might be possible to find a way to seek out meters and cut off the power they are supplying, they said.Security investigator Greg Jones who carried out similar work on smart meters being rolled out in the UK, said he was "not surprised" about the Spanish researchers' findings.Mr Jones's work uncovered shared IDs, poor protection against tampering and data formats that would be easy to fake.
Godfather shock as horse killed and dumped in family’s gardenIN A scene reminiscent of The Godfather, a horse was killed and then dumped in a garden in a pretty North Yorkshire village last night.Police and the RSPCA were called to a house in Raskelf near Easingwold after a woman reported that her horse had been shot and killed.Reports locally suggested the animal had been killed earlier in revenge for a small unpaid debt of £30, driven to the property in the hopper of a JCB, then dumped in the garden.Two men have been arrested.
RSPCA inspector Karen Colman attended on Wednesday night and yesterday said Kit may have been killed with a single shot from a pistol.She said the horse had been shot in the head, in what looked a humane killing, and said there was no other damage to the horse."It's considered to be a humane way to euthanise a horse if it's broken a leg, but there were no physical injuries to the horse whatsoever and to my knowledge no-one has said there was anything wrong with the horse," she said. "It was more of a dispute."
Spider burrowed through tourist's stomach and up into his chest
New Immunity Provisions Cast Doubt on Greece’s Efforts to Fight CorruptionATHENS — The omnibus bill, more than 100 pages long and titled “Measures of Support and Growth for the Greek Economy,” won passage here in the middle of the night in March, as Parliament raced to meet a deadline set by Greece’s creditors.Only afterward did a legislator from the governing New Democracy party notice an unsettling provision. Buried on page 78 was language that essentially gave retroactive immunity to thousands of workers in state-funded organizations that could shield them from future corruption prosecutions.That change is among a flurry of new immunity provisions, often slipped into complex or unrelated bills this year, that have triggered outrage among law enforcement officials and critics of the government, who fear that long-awaited efforts to clamp down on corruption are being stymied.
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QuoteNew Immunity Provisions Cast Doubt on Greece’s Efforts to Fight CorruptionATHENS — The omnibus bill, more than 100 pages long and titled “Measures of Support and Growth for the Greek Economy,” won passage here in the middle of the night in March, as Parliament raced to meet a deadline set by Greece’s creditors.Only afterward did a legislator from the governing New Democracy party notice an unsettling provision. Buried on page 78 was language that essentially gave retroactive immunity to thousands of workers in state-funded organizations that could shield them from future corruption prosecutions.That change is among a flurry of new immunity provisions, often slipped into complex or unrelated bills this year, that have triggered outrage among law enforcement officials and critics of the government, who fear that long-awaited efforts to clamp down on corruption are being stymied.http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/world/europe/immunity-provisions-cast-doubt-on-greeces-efforts-to-fight-graft.html
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