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How do these perpetrators of crime in most cases manage to silence or intimidate victims and their families is a question that remains unanswered; as does the question why police fail protect victims and their family members.

According to the NCRB's "Crime in India" 2019 report, Uttar Pradesh reported the highest number of crimes against women (59,853), accounting for 14.7 percent of such cases across the country. UP also had the highest number of crimes against girl children under the POCSO Act and ranked second in terms of rapes committed.

The Yogi Government however claims that crime has come down in UP in the last four years. Government says that there is almost 66 % decline in cases of loot, 19 % in murders and more than 45 % in the incidents of rape and molestation.

It says in 1535 police thanas, women help desks have been set up. Besides, 135 criminals have been killed in the last four years in 7791 encounters.

Take your pick on what you want to believe in Yogis Ram Rajya.

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Todays columnist, Mark Kerrison of New Net Technologies, invokes David Bowie to get the point across that the vast majority of security issues are tied to changes. luvhermit CreativeCommons Credit: CC PDM 1.0

Despite his one-time appearance in the film The Prestige as Nikola Tesla, its unlikely David Bowie spent much of his time studying up on the challenges of technology. Still, he seemed to know what he was talking about when the glam rock and fashion icon encouraged us to Turn and Face the Strange, Ch-Ch-Changes. Bowie would fully understand that all data breaches or malware vectors are tied to changes. Facing those changes with a proper change control implementation has become so crucial for that very reason: Any change that slips by the team could introduce a malware disaster.

Gartner reports that 85 percent of all problems faced by IT teams, whether theyre operational or security, are often tracked to some form of change. They likewise predict that 90 percent of security breaches could have been detected with an effective change and configuration management process. Given that the average Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) a data breach runs about 190 days after infiltration, the longer a firm goes without a fully-implemented change control process, the more likely they are to suffer a devastating breach or even a ransomware attack. To properly implement change control, companies must start by understanding it.

This technology lets security teams identify changes in any environment so that any changes that represent a threat or open software up to a vulnerability are correctly identified as such. Unlike change management, which focuses on a given companys process in introducing change, in change control security teams understand what those changes are and their effect on the software environment.

Consider a zero-day attack, which by its nature can bypass whitelists and firewalls. The malware may go undetected, but the underlying changes to existing functions which enable that malware must occur. Change management helps firms avoid unexpected changes, but its in the realm of change control that they can determine those unexpected changes and deal with them.

We can identify these changes in four essential types:

Effective change control analyzes all changes, discerning between those that were harmless and ideally approved and those that were neither approved nor harmless. There are a few critical integrations an effective solution should leverage. Security teams should integrate data from change management into the change control solution. They need to empower that solution with analysis and Threat Intelligence to learn the patterns and behaviors of good changes, so that the team can reduce change noise and they can assess unexpected changes and assigned risk context.

Once detecting those risk-associated changes, an effective technology should offer remediation, using that risk context to help operations teams prioritize in the remediation process. Leveraging intelligent change control products and processes will better protect organizations from a breach, and also help spot potential breaches and contribute to enhanced IT operations.

Mark Kerrison, chief executive officer, New Net Technologies

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We all know the internet is required for full participation in our society and economy. Every business, device or government agency seems to require or highly encourage consumers to engage with them online.

Consumers are in a tough spot. Whether someone has access to the internet is the modern-day version of the haves and have-nots. Consumers must also Click to Accept to rules and policies not typically in their best interests. And if they say No to these rules and policies, these internet users are banished to the have-nots.

Consumers need a public policy to establish and exercise their digital rights. We deserve a digital Bill of Rights making possible a fair, transparent and empowering internet.

Consumers need awareness, trust and control, none of which they have at this time. In fact, all internet consumers operate as a marginalized set of users who lack the rights and privileges in the digital world that would be demanded and protected in our physical world.

Awareness is the first step. Consumers deserve transparency and notification describing the collection and sharing of their personal data, and a return on its value.

In other words, when consumers give up personal data, what do they get in return? Organizations use a consumers personal data, and how they do so is basically unknowable studies show that privacy policies now require a postgraduate degree to decipher, and only 1% of us even make the effort.

In 85% of the more than 600 policies studied by the Center for Identity at The University of Texas, organizations declare their right to change their policies, and your continued use of their products are considered your consent to those changes even if you had no idea of the changes. So, as a real matter, we have no awareness and no control.

Our current binary choice to simply accept the status quo or disengage is not a real or fair one.

We need laws that require organizations to fully disclose their use of and rate of return on a consumers personal data asset. Consumers also need control. Although awareness and trust may help consumers decide which websites to visit, which apps to download and which social media sources to follow, consumers still arent able to exercise control in the digital world.

Imagine a day when consumers could control their personal data asset like they control their money: If the product is you (and the product is definitely the consumer), shouldnt consumers be able to control that which directly affects every aspect of their lives? Shouldnt consumers have the ability to control the collection, use and misuse of their personal data assets?

Laws must establish the requirements for this utility the internet giving consumers awareness, trust and control as their most foundational rights. We need federal and state laws that construe personal data as the asset it is (analogous to currency), to define the value proposition for all parties involved in personal data transactions with the appropriate rights and redress. The first step will be laws that clearly address the issue of personal data ownership and halt the exploitation of people and their data.

These policies and protections are long overdue. For too long, consumers have not fully understood what they are sharing or how this information is used, i.e. the value proposition that underpins this transaction. In fact, plenty of diverse interests exist on the internet, and the personal data industry benefits from a lack of transparency and opaque ownership. The reach and intrusiveness of the personal data collector and aggregator have grown significantly, while consumer ownership and control remains undefined.

Consumers deserve better. We all deserve an internet that is fair, transparent and empowering.

Suzanne Barber is the director of the Center for Identity and the AT&T Foundation Endowed Professor in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

Susan Combs is a former comptroller for the State of Texas; former assistant secretary for policy, management and budget at the Department of the Interior; and a fellow in the Center for Identity at The University of Texas at Austin.

A version of this op-ed appeared in The Hill.

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Michigan State played a strong first half in Thursday night's First Four game against UCLA, but the main story at the break concerned a heated exchange between Tom Izzo and junior forward Gabe Brown as the two were walking off the floor.

After UCLA scored a bucket at the buzzer to cut Michigan State's lead to 11, Izzo chided Brown beneath the basket for missing a defensive switch. When Brown yelled back in disagreement and then turned away, Izzo grabbed him by the arm, then by the back of the jersey as Brown continued walking up the tunnel to the locker room.

It was reminiscent of Izzo's clash with Aaron Henry in the NCAA Tournament in 2019. The difference, in this case, is that there was physical contact between player and coach.

Izzo was asked about his confrontation with Brown shortly after Michigan State's season-ending OT loss in which it blew an 11-point second-half lead.

"You guys are beautiful," he said with a laugh. "He missed a play and I told him and he walked away and I told him to come back. We went through this a couple years ago. After a game like that, thats the question youre going to ask? I guess I'll answer it because the media has the right to ask whatever question, but well get him in here and you can ask him. It was a normal nothing. Its just that in this day and age, everythings something. It was over a missed switch that we had talked about."

On the TBS postgame show, Kenny Smith said the question deserved to be asked "because it's not normal to see a coach-and-player relationship like that."

"Coaches are there to not create the chaos, but to control it. That chaos was not controlled in that moment, and it was visible. It wasnt on the bench, it wasnt in the locker room, it was visible to everybody watching and it wasnt normal," said Smith. "To me, both were in the wrong. I dont think anyone was right in that situation. I dont think that should be normal behavior for any coach or player."

Fellow analyst Charles Barkley, meanwhile, defended Izzo's actions -- much like former Spartan Draymond Green on Twitter.

"This thing is getting out of hand," Barkley said. "A coach can yell at his players. If I yell at my kid and he walks away, Im gonna grab his arm, 'Im not done talking to you.' That's the exact same situation. When your parents or your coach is talking to you, you dont walk away. Im not gonna be one of these idiots on TV where every time a coach yells at a player, they say the coach is wrong. If your coach is trying to talk to you, you dont walk away."

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Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries and Minister for Rural CommunitiesThe Honourable Mark Furner

Cash grants worth $1.4 million for getting rid of feral pests are now available under Round 6 of the Queensland Feral Pest Initiative (QFPI).

Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries and Minister for Rural Communities Mark Furner said the funding was critical to supporting the agriculturfe sector throughout regional Queensland.

We have backed regional Queensland to succeed, and the success of our agricultural sector is a critical part of Queenslands plan for economic recovery, Mr Furner said.

This funding will increase the capacity of local governments to manage the feral pests that are a problem for farmers in their communities.

Mr Furner said through the QFPI, the Queensland Government had now committed $24.74 million over five years to support the construction of cluster fencing and the control of invasive plants and animals.

This investment has been complemented by a $14 million investment from the Federal Government, he said.

This latest round aims to support local authorities and organisations in taking on more of their biosecurity responsibility by building their capacity to manage pest plants and animals.

There is also fundng specifically for local governments to continue coordinated 1080 baiting programs. This is open to local governments that were previously supplied from the DAF-managed 1080 stockpile.

To apply for QFPI Round 6 grants, visit http://www.daf.qld.gov.au or call the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries on 13 25 23. Applications close 28 April 2021.

Mr Furner said as with previous rounds, these grants would reduce the impact of feral pests while creating jobs in the regions and underpinning the Queensland Governments Unite and Recover Queensland Economic Recovery Package.

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Media contact: Ron Goodman 0427 781 920

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