Australian triathlete injured after drone crash

 

 Triathlete Raija Ogden was treated for a head injury

Australia's air safety body is looking into reports that a triathlete has been injured by a falling drone.

Raija Ogden reportedly sustained minor head injuries after the drone's operator lost control of the device.
The videographer operating the drone claimed the craft had crashed because an attacker managed to wrest control away from him.
The drone was being used to film competitors in the Geraldton Endure Batavia triathlon in western Australia.
Ms Ogden was treated at the scene of the accident before being taken to hospital where stitches were required to close a head wound.
Hack attack The drone was being piloted by local photographer Warren Abrams who set it hovering about 10m above the race route to capture images of competitors completing the 10km run section of the triathlon.
Geraldton Triathlon club has apologised to Ms Ogden who was only metres away from the finishing line when she sustained her injuries.
Conflicting reports about the incident have emerged in local media. Some witnesses said the drone fell directly on to Ms Ogden but others said she tripped and fell after being startled by the plummeting device.
Mr Abrams told ABC news that video footage shot by the drone clearly showed it missed Ms Ogden and fell just behind her. In later reports Ms Ogden disputed this version of events saying she only sat down as she thought she was going to faint after the craft hit her.
The incident is now being investigated by Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority whose rules dictate that unmanned aircraft must fly a minimum of 30m away from people. Operators of drones are required to be certified by the agency to fly the unmanned craft.
The Agency is now looking into the incident as news reports raised questions about whether Mr Abrams was certified to operate the drone.
Mr Abrams said his initial investigation suggested that he lost control after someone else briefly took over flying the drone. Determining who in the crowd of competitors had stolen control would be tricky, he said, because smartphones could easily be used to carry out such an attack.

Microsoft security to automatically block adware on 1 July

MICROSOFT HAS SAID it will change the way it classifies adware and will begin blocking unwanted adverts by default in three months.
Taking effect on 1 July, the new objective criteria will mean that the Redmond firm will automatically stop any adware detected and notify the user, who can then restore the program if they wish.
At present when a Microsoft security product detects a program as adware, it alerts the user and offers a recommended action. If they don't respond, the security product will let the program run until the user makes a decision. The updated criteria essentially means that come 1 July, when one of Microsoft's products detects adware, it will immediately stop the program and the user will be notified.
The new objective criteria are as follows: "Programs that promote a product or service outside of their own program can interfere with your computing experience. You should have clear choice and control when installing programs that open advertisements.
"The advertisements that are opened by these programs must: Include an obvious way to close the ad; include the name of the program that created the ad.
"The program that creates these advertisements must: Provide a standard uninstall method for the program using the same name as shown in the ads it produces."
Microsoft added that programs that do not follow these rules will be detected as adware and immediately removed from the user's machine.
"We want to give our customers choice and control regarding what happens with their computers. To that end we have recently undergone some changes to both the criteria we use to classify a program as adware and how we remediate it when we find it," Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) security expert Michael Johnson said in a blog post.
Microsoft has chosen a 1 July, 2014 deadline because it wants to give developers three months to comply with its new rules.
The firm will only consider classifying a program as adware if it runs on the user's machine and produces notifications promoting goods or services in programs other than itself.
"If the program shows advertisements within its own borders it will not be assessed any further," Johnson added, explaining that using advertising as a form of payment is also an acceptable practice. "We are more concerned with the advertising that interferes with our customer's Windows experience without giving them choice and control over it," he explained