Victoria's court system hit by a cyber attack, At least five dead after powerful earthquake shakes central Japan, Liverpool stun Newcastle in a 4-2 win
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- Victoria's court system hit by a cyber attack
- At least five dead after powerful earthquake shakes central Japan...
- Liverpool stun Newcastle in a 4-2 win
Victoria's court system has been hit by a cyber attack, with hackers accessing weeks of recorded court and tribunal hearings.
Court Services Victoria was first made aware of the attack on December 21 but it's believed the audio visual technology network was first compromised on November 1.
A CSV spokeswoman confirmed today that video and audio recordings of some court and tribunal hearings may have been
accessed over the seven-week period.
The affected network has been isolated and disabled to ensure operations could continue across the courts.
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A powerful earthquake that hit central Japan on New Year's Day has killed at least five people, as police and local authorities report cases of bodies being pulled from the rubble of collapsed buildings.
The quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck in the middle of the afternoon yesterday [[1st Jan]], destroying buildings, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and prompting residents in some coastal areas to flee to higher ground.
It also triggered waves about one metre high along Japan's long western seaboard as well as in neighbouring South Korea.
Daniel Smith, an American resident of Japan, could feel the quake in the town of Toyama.
“The first tremor started very slowly and everybody kind of left it off, you know, they thought this is kind of humorous, you know, on New Year’s Day. And then it was just a violent shake, I mean violent shaking.”
Army personnel were dispatched to help with rescue operations, while one local airport was shut down after the quake tore open cracks in the runway."
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A vital shipment of vaccines has arrived in the Gaza Strip with aid workers now frantically working to protect the estimated 60,000 newborns across the wartorn region at risk of diseases such as polio and measles.
The World Health Organisation has also renewed calls for the international community to take urgent steps to alleviate disease risks faced by the 2.3 million Gazans who are experiencing a humanitarian disaster as the Israeli bombardment continues.
From 7 October to 17 December, 135 United Nations relief workers had been killed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip, making it the deadliest conflict for U-N workers in world history.
Gemma Connell from the United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs told Al Jazeera that, despite these risks, humanitarian organisations are attempting to reach dangerous territories in order to provide the vaccines.
"We have in the last days received several thousands of doses of these critically required vaccines which as you highlighted are so important to the survival of the babies that are being born every single day in Gaza. We have the babies being born here and Rafah. But we also have babies being born in Jabalia in an area that is essentially besieged and cut off from the outside world. So the health workers, our experts from the United Nations, the health ministry here and everyone else are now working on the planning to get these vaccines to all of the babies who need them."
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Researchers are a step closer to a cure for type one diabetes, with a Melbourne institute finding a way to rewire insulin production in sufferers.
For people with type one diabetes, their immune system destroys pancreatic cells so they need to depend on daily insulin injections.
But the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute has found two drugs that can regenerate insulin production in pancreatic cells damaged by the condition.
The medications, already approved in the United States for treatment of rare cancers, can return insulin production in as little as 48 hours.
Lead researcher Sam El-Osta told Channel Nine's Today program that it's a breakthrough treatment but there are still years of further research and testing to be done before patients can access it.
"So the therapy is aimed at reducing and perhaps eliminating round the clock insulin injections by regenerating and harnessing patient's own pancreatic cells. So we're now moving into animal studies over the next two to three years. So we're hoping between the next five and 10 years, we should see a rapid expansion in our research pipeline."
Current pharmaceutical options for diabetes treatment control blood glucose levels but they don't prevent, stop or reverse the destruction of insulin-producing cells."
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In football,
Mohamed Salah will head off to the Africa Cup of Nations on the back of a starring role for Liverpool in a 4-2 win over Newcastle.
The win has now given Liverpool a three-point lead at the top of the Premier League ladder.
An individual performance from Salah that started with his latest failure from the penalty spot ended with the Egyptian player scoring Liverpool's first and last goals in a chaotic game in wet and wild conditions.
The league now pauses for the FA Cup followed by a winter break lasting much of the rest of January, with Liverpool looking the team most likely to stop Manchester City winning an unprecedented fourth straight premier league title.
City are third, five points behind Liverpool - and two behind Aston Villa - with a game in hand.
Liverpool boss Jürgen Klopp reflected on the match, as seen on Optus Sport.
"In general, it was a sensational game for my team to be honest. We started extremely lively into the game and I loved so many aspects of the game besides the goals we conceded. But, besides that, an unbelievable game, an unbelievable atmosphere."
