Extremely Dangerous' Hurricane Matthew Could Deliver Devastating Blow

Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful Atlantic tropical storm since 2007, continued on a path to land a heavy punch to Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba, forecasters said early Monday.

"This is shaping up to be a devastating blow, especially to places like Haiti and Cuba," said Domenica Davis, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel.

At 8 a.m. ET on Monday, Matthew was a category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds near 130 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. It was 220 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, which was already being swamped with torrents of rain, and it was moving north at about 6 mph.

The National Hurricane Center called Matthew "extremely dangerous," and conditions look favorable for it to maintain its strength, said Michael Lowry, a hurricane specialist for The Weather Channel.

"It's kind of a resilient hurricane — it hasn't really wavered much in terms of its strength," Lowry said Sunday night. "It's a little bit unusual to go 48 hours with a category 4 or 5 hurricane and not to see some sort of fluctuation."

Project Shield Has Krebs on Security's Back

The website of prominent security blogger Brian Krebs is back online this week after sustaining one of the largest distributed denial of service attacks in Internet history.

DDoS attacks typically disrupt service at a website by flooding it with junk traffic. In this case, garbage traffic assaulted Krebs' site at 620 gigabits per second. By comparison, consumer bandwidth is in the 10-15 megabit per second range; businesses, 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps.

The attack may have been even larger than reported so far, maintained Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare.

"There was evidence that a lot of the upstream providers were getting congested and dropping packets upstream," he told TechNewsWorld.

When that's taken into account, "this attack could have been close to a terabit attack," Prince said.

Akamai's Exit

The attack was so large that Akamai, the company that had been protecting Krebs' site from DDoS attacks for years, had to withdraw its support from the blogger.

"Let me be clear: I do not fault Akamai for their decision," Krebs wrote in a Sunday post.

Surviving the Internet's Troll Apocalypse

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Surviving the Internet's Troll Social media has sharpened humans' age-old appetite for public shaming, providing a stage and unlimited seating for a seemingly unending stream of immorality plays. Those who share even the simplest identifying details about themselves are vulnerable to being pushed into the glare of the spotlight.

The anonymity the Internet provides frees many individuals of the consequences they might face offline for being abusive to other people. Perhaps appearing to their friends, family and connections as ordinary people in the real world, these Jekyll-and-Hyde netizens transform into trolls to carry out their online assaults.
Anonymity has been a hot button issue for just about the entire life of the Internet, and although there is no 100 percent solution in sight, the situation is not entirely hopeless, according to Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.
"So long as public sites enable user anonymity, pathological behavior will continue, because it thrives in the shadows," he told TechNewsWorld. "Forcing abusers into the sunlight may be difficult or impossible -- but changes in rules, laws and enforcement practices could make their lives more complicated and less comfortable."

Black money worth Rs 65,250 crore disclosed under Income Declaration Scheme: Arun Jaitley

NEW DELHI: As much as Rs 65,250 crore of black money was declared during the four-month compliance window of theIncome Declaration Schemethat ended on September 30, finance minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday.

Jaitley said 64,275 declarations were made in the four-month window and this figure could go up once all the declarations filed online and manually are compiled.
http://m.timesofindia.com/business/india-business/Rs-65250-crore-declared-under-Income-Tax-amnesty-scheme-Arun-Jaitley/articleshow/54626672.cms

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Global competitiveness: Pakistan stands last in South Asia, India jumps 16 spots

ANI | Updated: Sep 28, 2016, 04.50PM IST

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KARACHI: Pakistan has been ranked at 122, last amongst its South Asian neighbours, in the (GCI) by the

The forum has ranked followed by Sri Lanka 71, Bhutan 97, Nepal 98 and Bangladesh at 106 at the GCI, reports the Business Reporter, a financial daily of Pakistan.

The Global Competitiveness Report 2016-17competitiveness ranking is based on the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI), which was introduced by the WEF in 2005.

Rosetta's last image before suicide mission

The Rosetta spacecraft ended its historic £1.2bn mission by smashing into the comet it has been chasing for 12 years.

Scientists at the European Space Agency cheered and hugged one another at the point of impact with the duck-shaped Comet 67P at 12.19pm.

"Thank you Rosetta," ESA director general Jan Woerner said on Twitter.

Rosetta's British project scientist, Dr Matt Taylor, described it as a "bittersweet" moment.

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A rescue worker has been pictured breaking down in tears as he held a baby girl who was freed from the rubble of a bombed building.

In the footage, the man is seen cradling the child in his arms in an ambulance as she was taken to hospital following a reported airstrike in Idlib, northern Syria.

The tearful worker said the infant, who had blood on her head and was covered in dust, was aged about one month, although she appeared to look older.

Rescue workers were earlier pictured searching desperately through the remains of a building to find the youngster in the debris. A woman was also pulled alive.

Image Caption:The rescue worker breaks down in the ambulance

The worker said: "We have been working for two or three hours, God willing.

"One month, she is one month old. Oh God, two hours of work, this is it. It's 30 days old."

At least six people were killed as air raids targeted Idlib and the town of Jarjanaz on Thursday, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The footage emerged a day after a young Syrian girl was pulled alive from underneath rubble after an airstrike in Aleppo's al Shaar district - an attack that reportedly claimed 24 lives.