Cyber attack fears for Britain’s $5bn newest warship using Windows XL! – video

Cyber attack fears against Britain’s newest warship as it’s revealed the £3.1bn HMS Queen Elizabeth uses vulnerable Windows XP.
Fears were raised last night that Britain’s new aircraft carrier could be vulnerable to a cyber-attack after it emerged the ship was still using the outdated computer software used by the NHS.

Navy chiefs boasted the defence system on the UK’s biggest ever warship, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, will be NASA standard – rather than like the NHS system that was hacked into several months ago.

But computers in the flying control room on the £3.1billion state-of-the-art carrier showed the system was still running on Windows XP.

The vast majority of NHS computers hit by a global cyber-attack in May this year were running Windows XP, which can have serious security flaws.

The operating system was released in 2001, and Microsoft cut support for it in 2014. Microsoft no longer distributes security updates for XP, leaving it vulnerable to viruses and cyber-criminals.

Experts have warned those still running the software after 2014 – and not receiving extended security support after the cut-off date – are at risk of getting hacked.

Amid heightened concerns that states could launch cyber-attacks against the UK in a new type of warfare, cyber warfare experts will be deployed with the carrier when it becomes operational in 2020.

A Destroyer and other escorts will also ward off any attempt by enemy forces to hack into the systems by using jamming equipment.

Speaking from the flying control room – Flyco – on the carrier, Cdr Mark Deller, commander air, downplayed any security risk to the carrier, saying it would have the necessary security measures when it deploys on missions.

He said: ‘The ship is well designed and there has been a very very stringent procurement train that has ensured we are less susceptible to cyber than most.

‘I would say compared to the NHS buying computers off the shelf, I would think we are probably better than that. If you think more NASA and less NHS you are probably in the right place.’

He suggested any outdated systems would be upgraded, adding: ‘When you buy a ship, you don’t buy it today, you bought it 20 years ago…

Three people die in horror crash on Bruce Highway near Innisfail QLD

THREE people have been killed in a horror crash on the Bruce Highway early this morning.

It is understood that around 2.30am a semi-trailer travelling south at El Arish, near Innisfail, collided head on with a mini bus travelling in the opposite direction.

The driver and two passengers of the minibus were declared deceased at the scene.

Two other passengers of the bus were taken to Innisfail Hospital.

The truck driver was not injured.

The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating the cause of the crash.

Source: Three people die in horror crash on Bruce Highway near Innisfail. | The Courier-Mail

American Gods sex scene: viewers speechless: Goddess swallows man whole during intercourse

Spoilers ahead…. 

If fans of the Neil Gaiman book were worried about what would be left on the editing floor of the small screen adaptation…they need not fret.

American Gods gave viewers an eyeful on Sunday night as they included a graphic sex scene from the first chapter of the fantastical book, which perfectly captures the brilliant weirdness of the novel.

A somewhat innocuous hookup off of a dating site turns both supernatural and murderous in the first episode of the Starz show titled The Bone Orchard.

A man meets a woman off a dating website and ends up in bed with her.

The scene, which is taken from the first chapter of the 2001 book, takes an unexpected turn when the woman swallows the man whole with her vagina.

The woman is no mortal as she is Bilquis, who in Gaiman’s universe is a goddess based on the biblical character more commonly known as the Queen of Sheba.

Meanwhile, a storm is brewing in Starz’s gritty new series American Gods, as deities old and new gear up for a battle that reverberates with topical issues in the real world.

Immigration, race, religion and sexuality are all examined in ‘merican Gods through the saga of Shadow Moon, a convict who is released to the news of his wife’s death. He is hired to be the bodyguard of an old grifter named Mr. Wednesday, the disguise of the Norse god Odin.

The series is based on British author Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel of the same name, a surreal story of how the old gods of folklore struggle to be revered and remembered in an age of new gods like technology and media.

Source: American Gods sex scene leaves viewers speechless | Daily Mail Online