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Kaspersky Lab Experts Discover the Risks of Smart Home Devices
Taking a random selection of the latest Internet-of-Things (IoT) products, Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered serious threats to the connected home. These include a coffeemaker that exposes the homeowner’s Wi-Fi password, a baby video monitor that can be controlled by a malicious third-party, and a smartphone-controlled home security system that can be fooled with a magnet. In 2014, Kaspersky Lab’s security expert David Jacoby looked around his living-room, and decided to investigate how susceptible the devices he owned were to a cyber-attack. He discovered that almost all of them were vulnerable. Following this, in 2015 a team of Kaspersky Lab antimalware experts repeated the experiment with one little difference: while David’s…
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De Tour Kuala Lumpur, The 3rd
Remember me and my cycling friends, and our sons rode in Kuala Lumpur? The last one was in August 2012. That ride started in Kuala Lumpur. I have been thinking about riding from our home to Kuala Lumpur, like the old time how people commune to work and make a living. I almost had the opportunity when I was planning to cycling to my father’s grave 2 years ago with our sons, until Retna and I thought the plan was absolutely not feasible. Mainly the roads are totally not friendly to cyclists at all. Kind of sad. That was why both rides in Kuala Lumpur also started in the city…
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‘As surely as I valued your life today, so may the Lord value my life’
When I was doing my daily devotion yesterday, I could not do it in the SOAP method, because none of the passage spoke to me. I must be honest with God, can’t just a passage and so be it. Today, when I read 1 Samuel 26, David again spared Saul’s life. In 1 Samuel 26:11, the word of God says, But the Lord forbid that I should lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed. Now get the spear and water jug that are near his head, and let’s go.” David has the chance again to kill Saul, but he did not, rather to show a gesture that when he could do it,…
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David, Saul
It is interesting to read the Bible. Well, for Christians, it is the Word of God that shines our path & it is His words that encourages us when we are down, to guide us when we seek help, and of course shaping our life, how we should be. Reading 1 Samuel, besides learning how prophet Samuel is called and used by God, we also got to learn how the first king of Israel was introduced. By the way, many have asked how I got the name ‘Samuel’. It is not from my parents, but from my English teacher. Each of our classmates got a Christian name that time. I…
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David, the Lions & the Bears
34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. 36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37 The LORD who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” Saul…
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Saul also prophesied when God intervened
Saul was told about it, and he sent more men, and they prophesied too. Saul sent men a third time, and they also prophesied. ~ 1 Samuel 19:21. This morning devotion, God is assuring of His presence even though the danger is near for He protects and cares. Saul was jealous on David’s success. Although David has no intention to take over the kingship from Saul, but felt threaten as David was well loved and pleased by the people as they sang Saul took down thousand, David took many more thousands in one of the victory celebrations. The evil spirit came upon Saul to kill David, for reason probably none other than…
