Official: Underwater signal relocated

Official: Underwater signal relocated

PERTH, Australia

An Australian official says equipment on a ship searching for the missing Malaysian jet has relocated an underwater signal that is consistent with a plane’s black boxes.

Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the search in the southern Indian Ocean, said today that the Australian navy’s Ocean Shield has picked up two more underwater signals that could be from Flight 370.

The Ocean Shield first detected the sounds late Saturday and early Sunday before losing them, and Houston said the ship relocated the signals twice on Tuesday.

The ship is equipped with a U.S. Navy towed pinger locator that is designed to pick up signals from a plane’s black boxes.

Marine guard shot to death by colleague

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.

Authorities say the victim in a North Carolina base shooting died of a single wound to the chest after efforts to revive him.

Camp Lejeune base spokesman Nat Fahy said the shooting occurred about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday when one Marine on guard duty shot a colleague in a guard shack at the main base.

The Marine who fired the shot is in custody.

A base news release says the shooting isn’t considered an act of terrorism and that there is no active gunman.

GM workers in Ky. vote to allow strike

FRANKFORT, Ky.

Workers at the General Motors plant in Kentucky that assembles Corvettes voted Tuesday to authorize a strike over lingering safety concerns, but a local union leader said he hopes the differences can be resolved without a walkout.

Union members voted overwhelmingly to give union leaders the green light to call a strike if necessary. About 800 union workers were eligible to vote, and more than 90 percent of those casting ballots backed the strike authorization, said Eldon Renaud, president of United Auto Workers Local 2164.

Renaud said issues involved were safety and quality control.

Talks in Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela

Venezuela’s opposition has agreed to sit down with President Nicolas Maduro’s government for talks aimed at defusing the nation’s political crisis, now entering its third month.

The announcement followed a closed-door meeting Tuesday between Maduro and representatives of the opposition. The two sides agreed that talks aimed at reconciliation would take place in public and would begin shortly under the supervision of the foreign ministers from Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador, as well the Vatican’s diplomatic envoy in Venezuela.

Security flaw found

NEW YORK

Passwords and other sensitive data are at risk after security researchers discovered a problem with an encryption technology used to securely transmit email, e-commerce transactions, social-networking posts and other Web traffic.

Security researchers say the threat, known as Heartbleed, is serious, partly because it remained undiscovered for more than two years. Attackers can exploit the vulnerability without leaving any trace, so anything sent during that time potentially has been compromised. It’s not known, though, whether anyone actually had exploited this flaw.

A fix is available, but websites and service providers must install the update. Meanwhile, researchers say people should change all of their passwords.

Associated Press