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| Kenya charges 9 foreigners including two Indians over 377-kg heroin haul | | | Nine foreign nationals were charged in a Kenyan court on Thursday with trafficking the biggest ever single seizure of drugs at the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa. There has been a surge in the volume of heroin trafficked through east Africa in recent years, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime says, with east Africa's biggest port of Mombasa cited as a transit point for narcotics and other contraband. The suspects, who included six Pakistanis, two Indians and an Iranian, denied trafficking the heroin and were detained until November when their trial will begin. Police also found 33,200 litres of liquid heroin whose value is yet to be established. |
| Smartphone management flaws puts users at risk, researchers say | |  By Eric Auchard VIENNA (Reuters) - Security researchers have revealed two separate threats this week they say could put up to 90 percent of the world's 2 billion plus smartphones at risk of password theft, stolen data and in some cases let hackers take full control of devices. One vulnerability involves flaws in the way scores of manufacturers of Apple, Google Android and Blackberry devices, among others, have implemented an obscure industry standard that controls how everything from network connections to user identities are managed. The threat could enable attackers to remotely wipe devices, install malicious software, access data and run applications on smartphones, Mathew Solnik, a mobile researcher with Denver-based cyber security firm Accuvant, said in a phone interview. A separate threat specifically affecting up to three-quarters of devices running older Android software has been unearthed by researchers at Bluebox Security of San Francisco.
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| West Ham's Morrison remanded over assault charges | | | West Ham United midfielder Ravel Morrison has been charged with assaulting two women outside a bar in Manchester, police said on Thursday. Morrison, 21, whose future at the Premier League club is currently in doubt, is accused of common assault on the women, aged 19 and 39, during an incident on Saturday night. He appeared at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court and was remanded in custody until Aug. 7, the BBC reported. The incident comes as West Ham manager Sam Allardyce is at loggerheads with the east London club's co-owner David Sullivan over the future of the former Manchester United trainee. |
| Hackers can tap USB devices in new attacks, researcher warns | |  By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - USB devices such as keyboards, thumb-drives and mice can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks that evade all known security protections, a top computer researcher revealed on Thursday. Karsten Nohl, chief scientist with Berlin's SR Labs, noted that hackers could load malicious software onto tiny, low-cost computer chips that control functions of USB devices but which have no built-in shields against tampering with their code. It is almost like a magic trick," said Nohl, whose research firm is known for uncovering major flaws in mobile phone technology. Nohl said his firm has performed attacks by writing malicious code onto USB control chips used in thumb drives and smartphones.
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| Ukraine blocks premier's resignation, backs laws | |  By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament rejected Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk's resignation on Thursday and finally passed legislation he said was needed to finance an army offensive against a separatist rebellion raging in the east and avert a national default on its debts. The assembly's about-turn on laws it refused to back a week earlier offers relief to Kiev's Western political and financial backers, who had feared Ukraine was sliding deeper into political chaos and might renege on the terms of an international bailout as it heads into a potentially bitter election campaign. Having recaptured the rebel stronghold of Slaviansk in early July, government forces are now moving on Donetsk and Luhansk. In sharp contrast to the stormy parliamentary session last week at which the prime minister bellowed at legislators and accused them of betraying Ukraine's army and people by blocking reforms, deputies stood and applauded him after backing the amendments.
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