A mysterious hacker in Australia has hijacked a local police radio broadcasts and has kept playing NWA "F**K Tha Police" for repeatedly for several days.
The song which was sang by 1990's Los Angeles rap group NWA features criticizing police conducts.
According to the Otago coastal acting area commander, Inspector Kelvin Lloyd, said the expletive rap music which has been transmitting on police radio for days now has been interfering with armed offenders squad (AOS) call-out, thereby putting people in danger.
The transmission interfered a call-out to the AOS about a man pointing a gun at a motorist in Omaru.
"It was putting people in danger.
"There's no question that if it carries on and if they do what they're doing it will delay a response."
Police radios have also picked up several versions of the "F**k Tha Police" song by American rock grup band Rage Against the machine.
Inspector Lloyd explained that no police radios were missing which means the transmission was been made from another source. The Inspector said the transmission wasn't made from a police radio as those from the police required specific chargers which be difficult to source for.
"Any interference with a police radio constitute a risk to public safety, and anyone caught doing this can face a penalty of criminal nuisance and up to one year imprisonment."
Last year August, there were reports of someone broadcasting pig grunts and abuse over police radios in the lower North Island.
Another incident happened in which a hacker hijacked a police broadcast and then called off the police from an armed robbery chase.
A mysterious hacker in Australia has hijacked a local police radio broadcasts and has kept playing NWA "F**K Tha Police" for repeatedly for several days.
The song which was sang by 1990's Los Angeles rap group NWA features criticizing police conducts.
According to the Otago coastal acting area commander, Inspector Kelvin Lloyd, said the expletive rap music which has been transmitting on police radio for days now has been interfering with armed offenders squad (AOS) call-out, thereby putting people in danger.
The transmission interfered a call-out to the AOS about a man pointing a gun at a motorist in Omaru.
"It was putting people in danger.
"There's no question that if it carries on and if they do what they're doing it will delay a response."
Police radios have also picked up several versions of the "F**k Tha Police" song by American rock grup band Rage Against the machine.
Inspector Lloyd explained that no police radios were missing which means the transmission was been made from another source. The Inspector said the transmission wasn't made from a police radio as those from the police required specific chargers which be difficult to source for.
"Any interference with a police radio constitute a risk to public safety, and anyone caught doing this can face a penalty of criminal nuisance and up to one year imprisonment."
Last year August, there were reports of someone broadcasting pig grunts and abuse over police radios in the lower North Island.
Another incident happened in which a hacker hijacked a police broadcast and then called off the police from an armed robbery chase.
A mysterious hacker in Australia has hijacked a local police radio broadcasts and has kept playing NWA "F**K Tha Police" for repeatedly for several days.
The song which was sang by 1990's Los Angeles rap group NWA features criticizing police conducts.
According to the Otago coastal acting area commander, Inspector Kelvin Lloyd, said the expletive rap music which has been transmitting on police radio for days now has been interfering with armed offenders squad (AOS) call-out, thereby putting people in danger.
The transmission interfered a call-out to the AOS about a man pointing a gun at a motorist in Omaru.
"It was putting people in danger.
"There's no question that if it carries on and if they do what they're doing it will delay a response."
Police radios have also picked up several versions of the "F**k Tha Police" song by American rock grup band Rage Against the machine.
Inspector Lloyd explained that no police radios were missing which means the transmission was been made from another source. The Inspector said the transmission wasn't made from a police radio as those from the police required specific chargers which be difficult to source for.
"Any interference with a police radio constitute a risk to public safety, and anyone caught doing this can face a penalty of criminal nuisance and up to one year imprisonment."
Last year August, there were reports of someone broadcasting pig grunts and abuse over police radios in the lower North Island.
Another incident happened in which a hacker hijacked a police broadcast and then called off the police from an armed robbery chase.
An unknown hacker last week hijacked the Victoria Police emergency radio network to disrupt the chase of two robbery suspects in hot pursuit by the police.
According to Australia local reports, the Victoria police were chasing an armed man and a woman who had attempted to rob a store. The two stole a vehicle and fled but the police raced after them. During the car chase, the unknown hacker came over the radio multiple times while pretending to be a real cop until the police in pursuit stopped chasing the suspects.
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The police minister, Lisa Neville described the act as "appalling" but assured that improvements to the network were already planned. The minister made aware that the Australian telecommunication company Telstra had been contracted with $12 million to upgrade the radio system to a more secure digital radio system which is used by the regional police, Lifesaving Victoria and Fire authority.
However, the police chased the suspects to a nearby town of Traralgon where the two were apprehended.
The Australian police are still in hunt for the hacker behind the voice transmission and are calling for anyone with information that could lead to the arrest of the impersonator.
Isreali DNA and genealogy website, MyHeritage, has suffered a massive data breach in which logins and passwords of 92 million customers who signed up for the service up to October 26,2017 were stolen during the attack.
According to reports, the breach was discovered by a private security researcher who reported the incident to the company who then made it public after an in-dept analysis.
Also Read: Hacker Hijacks Police Radio Broadcast, Plays F**K Tha Police For Days "We believe the intrusion is limited to the user email address," Chief Information Security Officer of My Heritage Omer Deutsch said in a blog post. "Other types of sensitive data such as family trees and DNA data are stored by MyHeritage on segregated systems, separate from those that store email addresses, and they include added layers of security."
According to the statement, data such as family trees and DNA data are stored on a separate computer and there hasn't been any sign that those computers were compromised.
It is unclear those who were behind the attack nor has there been any indication that the compromised data was ever used for malicious purposes. However, MyHeritage has hired a Cybersecurity firm to investigate further the cause of the breach.
To strengthen users login, MyHeritage plans to introduce two-factor authentication feature to avoid future occurrence of such incident. The company is also urging its users to change their passwords and avoid using the same password paraphrase for multiple online services or websites.
Adding to it's list of products that repels mosquito, LG Electronics Inc recently announced a smartphone called the LG K7i which comes with a technology known as "Mosquito Away" that drives away mosquitoes. The South Korean company which already has the "Mosquito Away" technology in some of its Air Conditioning models as well as TV's and Washing Machines said that the LG K7i was made for the Indian market.
According to LG, the Mosquito Away technology which is odorless, silent and easy to use, uses an ultrasonic waves that are safe for humans.
So whats the LG K7i specs anyway? The LG K7i which has a big bulge at the back for repelling mosquitoes comes with a 5" HD display (1280 x 720 pixels), a Quad core processor clocked at 1.5 GHz with 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB ROM which is expandable to 256 GB with an SD card.
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The device which runs on Android Marshmallow 6.0, comes with a 5 Mega Pixel selfie camera and an 8 mega pixel back facing camera with an led flash light. It has 4G LTE capability, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and a removable battery of 2500mAH.
The device is sold for 7,990 rupees in India, should be around $122 when converted in US Dollar.
