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ఆదివారం ఇంగ్లాండ్ ప్రేక్షకులకు పండగ చేసుకోనున్నారు. ఒకే రోజు ఏకంగా మూడు ఫైనల్స్ అక్కడ జరగనున్నాయి. ప్రపంచకప్ ఫైనల్తో పాటు వింబుల్డన్ పరుషుల ఫైనల్, బ్రిటిష్ గ్రాండ్ ప్రీ ఫైనల్స్ అభిమానులకు కనువిందు చేయనున్నాయి.

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Published : Jul 13, 2019, 9:45 PM IST

27 ఏళ్ల తర్వాత ఇంగ్లాండ్ ప్రపంచకప్ ఫైనల్లో అడుగుపెట్టింది. ఆదివారం న్యూజిలాండ్తో ఫైనల్ మ్యాచ్ ఆడనుంది. అదీ సొంతగడ్డపై జరుగుతున్న కారణంగా అభిమానులకు పండగే. అయితే ఇదే రోజు మరో రెండు ఫైనల్ మ్యాచ్లు జరగనున్నాయి. క్రికెట్ ప్రపంచకప్ ఫైనల్తో పాటు వింబుల్డన్ పురుషుల సింగిల్స్ ఫైనల్, బ్రిటిష్ గ్రాండ్ ప్రీ ఫార్ములా రేసింగ్ ఉన్నాయి. ఈ మూడు మ్యాచ్లు ఒకేరోజు ఉన్నందు వల్ల ప్రేక్షకులు ఏది చూడాలో అని తలలు పట్టుకుంటున్నారు.

ఇంగ్లాండ్ x న్యూజిలాండ్

ఆదివారం లార్డ్స్ వేదికగా జరిగే ప్రపంచకప్ ఫైనల్ మ్యాచ్లో ఇంగ్లాండ్, న్యూజిలాండ్ తలపడనున్నాయి. ఈ రెండు జట్లు ఇప్పటివరకు వరల్డ్కప్ టైటిల్ గెలవలేదు. ఈసారి ఎలాగైనా కప్పు గెలవాలన్న కసితో ఉన్నాయి. అయితే సొంత గడ్డపై జరుగుతుండటం ఇంగ్లాండ్కు కలిసొచ్చే అంశం. ఫామ్ దృష్ట్యా మోర్గాన్ సేన టైటిల్ ఎగరేసుకుపోతుందని క్రికెట్ పండితులు అంచనాలు వేస్తున్నారు. టీమిండియా లాంటి పటిష్ఠమైన జట్టును ఓడించి తుదిపోరుకు అర్హత సాధించిన కివీస్ను తక్కువ అంచనా వేయడానికి వీల్లేదు. అందువల్ల మ్యాచ్ రసవత్తరంగా జరుగుతుందని అభిమానులు భావిస్తున్నారు.

జకోవిచ్‌ x ఫెదరర్‌

టెన్నిస్ పోరులో ఫెదరర్, జకోవిచ్, నాదల్ మధ్య పోటీ ఎప్పుడూ రసవత్తరంగా ఉంటుంది. అదీ వింబుల్డన్ అంటే మరింత ఆకట్టుకుంటుంది. వీరిలో ఏ ఇద్దరు తలపడినా అభిమానులకు పండగే. ఆదివారం జరగబోయే వింబుల్డన్ ఫైనల్ మ్యాచ్లో ఫెదరర్, జకోవిచ్ తలపడనున్నారు. ఈ మ్యాచ్ కోసం ప్రపంచవ్యాప్తంగా ప్రేక్షకులు ఆసక్తిగా ఎదురుచూస్తున్నారు.

బ్రిటిష్ గ్రాండ్ ప్రీ ఫైనల్

ఆదివారం బ్రిటిష్‌ గ్రాండ్‌ ప్రీ ఫైనల్ జరగనుంది. సిల్వర్‌స్టోన్‌ సర్క్యూట్‌ వేదికగా సాగే ఈ పోటీలో బ్రిటిష్ డ్రైవర్‌ లూయిస్‌ హామిల్టన్‌ బరిలో ఉన్నాడు. ఇప్పటికే ఐదుసార్లు ఛాంపియన్‌గా నిలిచిన హామిల్టన్‌.. మెర్సిడెస్‌ డ్రైవర్‌ బొట్టాస్‌తో కలిసి అగ్రస్థానంలో కొనసాగుతున్నాడు. ఆదివారం జరిగే ఫైనల్స్‌లో హామిల్టన్‌ గెలిచి జిమ్ క్లార్క్‌, అలైన్ ప్రోస్ట్‌ పేరిట ఉన్న గత రికార్డును అధిగమించాలని భావిస్తున్నాడు.

ఇంగ్లాండ్ x న్యూజిలాండ్

జకోవిచ్‌ x ఫెదరర్‌

బ్రిటిష్ గ్రాండ్ ప్రీ ఫైనల్

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY
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New York - 12 July 2019
++SOUNDBITES SEPARATED BY A FRAME OF BLACK++
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Greenhalgh, Vice President of policy and program, National Election Defense Coalition:
"What's really troubling is that we discovered that a lot of the equipment that's being sold on the market now to replace old outdated systems is built on operating systems that are also very soon to be outdated. So there's a lot of counties and states that are spending a lot of money for new systems and in a very short few months those new systems are gonna be on software that's end of life and no longer going to be receiving security updates against known threats."
Against known threats."
++BLACK++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Greenhalgh, Vice President of policy and program, National Election Defense Coalition:
"Older software can have known exploits where there's certain types of ways to hack into the system that can be published on the internet. Anybody with a minimal amount of cyber security expertise can find them and exploit those systems and then newer software is patched and secure against what ways that we know to get in. So we want to make sure that what our voting systems are being built on is the most secure software that is patched and secure against known ways to break it."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Greenhalgh, Vice President of policy and program, National Election Defense Coalition:
"But the best way to secure our elections is to have paper ballots for all voters and to do post-election audits of those elections. And most of the country does have paper ballots. There are some states and counties that still need to move to paper ballots and they can do that before 2020 and we can try and get meaningful post-election audits across the country before 2020."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Greenhalgh, Vice President of policy and program, National Election Defense Coalition:
"We need stronger oversight from the federal government, more engagement with computer security experts at the Election Assistance Commission to give better advice and guidance to counties and states as they're preparing their systems help raise the overall level of knowledge and give more funding to the state and counties so that they can hire people who have a greater awareness of cyber security issues."
++BLACK++
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Greenhalgh, Vice President of policy and program, National Election Defense Coalition:
"The federal government appropriated 380 million dollars to the states to buy new equipment in the last legislative session. But it's really not enough to deal with the scope of this problem which is and nothing less than a national security crisis. So we need to have more funding for the states. It was really just a down payment. But as we spend that money we want to spend it wisely on secure systems."
++BLACK++
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Greenhalgh, Vice President of policy and program, National Election Defense Coalition:
"We have time to address a lot of these problems and there's a lot being done. So voters should definitely make sure that they get out and vote and and petition to get their elections checked with a hand marked paper ballot and post election audit."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Greenhalgh, Vice President of policy and program, National Election Defense Coalition:
"I think there's blame to go around in a couple of different places. The vendors have been selling equipment without a lot of scrutiny there's been very little oversight so they could be selling equipment that they're saying is based on new secure software that really isn't built on the newest and most secure software. We also have state and local jurisdictions that are under resourced they don't have enough money they don't have cyber security experts computer security experts on staff to know that this is something that they should be looking for. They're relying on assistance from the federal government and the federal government really should have been scrutinizing this much closer."
STORYLINE:
According to an analysis by The Associated Press, states are buying 'new' election systems that will soon be running outdated and unsupported software that makes it more vulnerable to hacking.
AP found that the vast majority of the nation's 10,000 election jurisdictions, including those that have recently acquired new systems, will be managing their elections _ that is, creating ballots and programming voting machines, tallying votes and reporting counts _ on Windows 7 or an even older operating system.
That's significant because Windows 7 reaches its "end of life" date on Jan. 14, meaning Microsoft will no longer provide technical support and produce "patches" to fix known software vulnerabilities found in computer code that hackers can exploit to get into someone's computer system. Meanwhile, a simple update for election systems requires vendors to go through a lengthy and costly process.
AP surveyed all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the territories, and found multiple key battleground states like Pennsylvania are also impacted by the upcoming end date for Windows 7 support, including Wisconsin, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Arizona and North Carolina. Also impacted is Michigan, which recently acquired a new system, and Georgia, which is set to announce its selection of a new system any day now.
The world of voting technology vendors is tiny and dominated by three titans: Omaha, Nebraska-based Election Systems and Software, LLC; Denver, Colorado-based Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., and Austin, Texas-based Hart InterCivic Inc.
Together they make up about 92 percent of the election systems used nationwide, and all three have increasingly focused their commercial efforts on winning over states newly flush with federal funds who want to update their systems given concerns about election hacking after U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump win.
Only Dominion's newest systems are running on a supported operating system, though it has other problems: Many of its legacy systems acquired from companies that no longer exist, run on Windows XP or possibly even older operating systems.
Hart's newest system being sold to states is run on a version of Windows that will no longer be supported on Oct. 13, weeks before the presidential election.
"What's really troubling is that we discovered that a lot of the equipment that's being sold on the market now to replace old outdated systems is built on operating systems that are also very soon to be outdated. So there's a lot of counties and states that are spending a lot of money for new systems and in a very short few months those new systems are gonna be on software that's end of life and no longer going to be receiving security updates against known threats," said Susan Greenhalgh, the policy director for the National Election Defense Coalition.
Microsoft usually pushes out such patches for their operating systems on a weekly basis, so hackers have learned to especially target older unsupported Microsoft operating systems.
The company has historically had more users worldwide on its operating systems, and their system has been ground zero for some of the world's most crippling cyberattacks including the WannaCry ransomware attack which froze systems in 200,000 computers across 150 countries in 2017.
For the average Microsoft user, the end of Microsoft support might mean you have to update to a newer operating system like Windows 10.
However, for election systems the process is far more onerous. The route to certify is long and costly, often taking at least a year from start to finish and costing six figures.
Certification, which is voluntary at the federal level but may be required by various state laws, ensures that the voting vendor's particular software will properly interact with the system it's operating on hopefully without unforeseen problems on election day; but, it is not a cyber hygiene or security check per se.
The guidelines, which are in and of themselves outdated and in the process of being revamped, are developed by the independent U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
The commission has no oversight power but despite this has frequently found itself at the center of political fights over election administration.
U.S. officials have warned that multiple nation-state adversaries, including China and Russia, are trying to impact the 2020 elections.
"We have time to address a lot of these problems and there's a lot being done. So voters should definitely make sure that they get out and vote and and petition to get their elections checked with a hand marked paper ballot and post election audit," Greenhalgh said.
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