IT has been almost two years since roadworks along Ipswich Road and Harwich Road in Colchester began.

The scheme has been described as one of the biggest civil engineering projects in the towns history.

For the first 12 months most of the work concerned utility diversions, with BT cables, gas mains and water mains diverted.

It means pipes and cables are now under pavements and verges instead of the road itself, so any future alterations can be done without road closures and the huge expense which goes with it.

The Waitrose wall has been demolished, moved and re-built, and road widening along the route has taken place.

From water leaks to cable replacement problems the project has seen more than its fair share of setbacks.

Then came coronavirus stopping work on site for a month and the discovery of urgent repairs needed to the railway bridge in Cowdray Avenue.

Now the project is nearing completion with resurfacing and line painting getting underway in a matter of weeks.

The phrase Rome wasnt built in a day is perhaps an apt one for this project.

Essex County Councils infrastructure boss Kevin Bentley said: We dont do roadworks for fun, they are done because they are needed.

This was all about widening a road for more houses which will be built in Colchester.

In lots of cases the buildings of homes happen before infrastructure is in place. Here the infrastructure is going in first.

The road used to be the main route in and out of Colchester.

As a trunk road it had the water pipes for Colchester and phone lines for Harwich underneath it.

One wrong move and thousands would have been without phone lines and there could have been serious flooding in a matter of minutes.

Mr Bentley added: The project was always expected to take 18 months to two years. The first year was all the utility engineers.

And Mr Bentley hit back at residents who claimed they could not see work happening on site.

During the first year of work most of the engineers on site were working underground on the cable and pipe works.

Unfortunately some took their frustration out on the site workers. Signs had to be put up urging people not to abuse workers, who now wear body cams.

Mr Bentley said the workers on site did not deserve to suffer abuse while doing their jobs.

We had bottles of urine thrown at workers and verbal abuse, he said. I insisted they wore body cameras and we would prosecute.

Over the course of the past two years Ipswich Road south has faced numerous closures.

Businesses such as Rollerworld and the Old Siege House have said they suffered as a result.

Mr Bentley said he sympathised with the firms affected. We helped them where possible and showed people ways to get into that part of Colchester.

However, we had to do the work. When all these homes are built in five to ten years time no-one would have been able to get off their driveways let alone drive anywhere.

Whenever we did this work we would have the same problem.

Some had questioned why the project has taken so long when the 31.4 miles long Channel Tunnel was built in six years.

Mr Bentley said: When they built the Channel Tunnel they didnt have moving traffic or to have to keep roads open.

If we had that we could have done it in half the time.

As the project came to its final weeks and months it faced a series of unforeseen problems.

When coronavirus hit, Eurovia, the contractors, made a decision to take their staff off all their building sites across the UK.

Workers had Covid-19 related training and were able to be back on site four weeks later.

Then weeks later workers discovered urgent repairs were needed on the railway bridge at Cowdray Avenue.

Work on the Ipswich Road roundabout was paused until it could be fixed.

Despite the setbacks Mr Bentley is confident the whole project can be completed by September.

The Harwich Road roundabout will have resurfacing and line painting from July 13.

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Mr Bentley said: This is the biggest civil engineering project we have undertaken in recent years.

And Mr Bentley said once complete, it will be a job well done.

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I am an owner of mobile home parks, including the one shown in the photo accompanying your article on new legislation regulating such properties. The recent laws passed by the Colorado Legislature targeting mobile home parks seem based on the assumption that owners of mobile home parks are generally bad-acting, irrational persons, who often harass good tenants.Common sense should tell anyone that is not the case.Landlords tend to be rational actors who seek to avoid unnecessary problems with their customers.

The legislation creates more obstacles for landlords, in dealing with bad-acting tenants, who make life difficult for the other residents. Landlordsenforce rules as a way of maintaining nice, safe communities for all the residents, not for any nefarious reason.I dont know of any business, in which there is any long-term benefit in treating good customers unfairly, and this includes mobile home parks. It is no fun dealing with bad-acting tenants, and the process to evict them has always been an expensive, lengthy and burdensome undertaking. There is no public benefit in laws which make it more difficultfor landlords to properly operate properties by enforcing rules.

Other provisions of the law involve improper government interference in the ability of private citizens to buy and sell property; it is wrong for the government to interject itself in transactions involving private-property owners.

The ultimate results of legislation such as this will be to increase housing costs, while driving investors out of the business of providing this type of housing and to make existing properties less safe and appealing for the residents.

The free market, left alone, provides landlords plenty of incentive to properly manage propertiesfor the benefit of all interested parties.

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RANDOLPH, NJ- Table of Hope and Morris Habitat for Humanity will host a free mobile food distribution at the Morris Habitat Restore on Wednesday, July 8 to assist families in need during this time of crisis. All residents are welcome and there are no eligibility requirements.

The contactless, drive-through food pick up will take place at the Morris Habitat ReStore parking lot located at 274 South Salem Street in Randolph from 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon. The food distribution consists of a variety of free groceries, including fresh produce, dairy and canned goods. Face masks are required for everyone attending the event.

People who have never needed help before are finding themselves in a different position during this pandemic, said Blair Schleicher Wilson, CEO of Morris Habitat for Humanity. Many need a helping hand, and were mobilizing our volunteers and local officials to help Table of Hope further its goal of feeding those in need.

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Table of Hope was founded by Rev. Dr. Sidney Williams, pastor of Bethel Church in Morristown and Board member of Morris Habitat. Following the outbreak of COVID-19, Dr. Williams converted a bus used to pick up food into a mobile food pantry to deliver groceries directly to local neighborhoods. Since that time, Table of Hope has served more than 9,000 families and delivered more than 220 tons of food. Table of Hope receives food from the Community Food Bank of New Jersey, local farms and food service companies.

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Morris Habitat for Humanity is part of a global, nonprofit housing organization committed to building homes, communities and hope. Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Morris Habitat builds new homes and provides home repair services to income eligible families. Morris Habitat collaborates with other Habitat affiliates and related housing organizations to improve the affordable housing stock in the region, and over the last four years has more than doubled the number of homes built. Morris Habitat welcomes volunteers and supporters from all backgrounds and serves people in need of decent housing regardless of race or religion. Since 1985, Morris Habitat has served more than 400 households through home ownership opportunities, home preservation, and international home building programs. Proceeds from the ReStore, opened in 2007, have helped to fund construction while diverting almost 5,800 tons of useable material from local landfills. The ReStore store is located at 274 South Salem Street, Randolph. For more information, visit http://www.morrishabitat.org or call 973-891-1934.

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Security vulnerabilities in your home router have been the story for years, with the responsibility being placed at the feet of users to keep their router firmware updated. But a damning report by Fraunhofer says that router manufacturers themselves have taken years to issue patches, with potentially dozens of critical vulnerabilities lurking within older routers.

The June report by Fraunhofer-Institut fur Kommunikation (FKIE) extracted firmware images from routers made by Asus, AVM, D-Link, Linksys, Netgear, TP-Link, and Zyxel127 in all. The report (as noted by ZDNet) compared the firmware images to known vulnerabilities and exploit mitigation techniques, so that even if a vulnerability was exposed, the design of the router could mitigate it.

No matter how you slice it, Fraunhofers study pointed out basic lapses in security across several aspects. At the most basic level, 46 routers didnt receive any updatesat all in the last year. Many used outdated Linux kernels with their own, known vulnerabilities. Fifty routers used hard-coded credentials, where a known username and password was encoded into the router as a default credential that asked the user to change itbut would still be there, accessible, if they did not.

FKIE could not find a single router without flaws. Nor could the institute name a single router vendor that avoided the security issues.

AVM does [a] better job than the other vendors regarding most aspects, the report concluded. Asus and Netgear do a better job in some aspects than D-Link, Linksys, TP-Link, and Zyxel. We contactedBelkin (Linksys) and D-Link, two vendors named in the report, for comment, but didnt hear back by press time.

In conclusion the update policy of router vendors is far behind the standards as we know it from desktop or server operating systems, FKIE said elsewhere in the report. However, routers are exposed to the internet 24 hours a day leading to an even higher risk of malware infection.

Fraunhofer broke down how router vendors have fallen short into several categories.

Days since the last firmware release:Although 81 routers were updated in the last 365 days before the FKIE gathered its results (March 27, 2019 to Match 27, 2020) the average number of days to the prior update, across all devices, was 378. FKIE said 27 of the devices had not been updated within two years, with the absolute worst stretching to 1,969 daysmore then five years.

Asus, AVM, and Netgear issued updates for all of their devices within a year and a half, at least. By comparison, most antivirus programs issue updates at least daily.

Age of the OS: Most routers run Linux, an open-source software model that offers researchers the ability to examine the basic Linux kernel code and apply patches. When the kernel itself is outdated, however, fundamental known vulnerabilities in the OS are ripe for exploitation. FKIE used the open-source Firmware Analysis and Comparison Tool (FACT) to extract the router firmware, finding that a third of the routers ran on top of the 2.6.36 Linux kernel, an older version. Thelast security update for kernel version 2.6.36 was provided nine years ago, the study found.

Critical vulnerabilities in the tested routers abounded. Theaverage number of critical vulnerabilities found for each router was 53, with even the best routers subject to 21 critical vulnerabilities (there were a whopping 348 high-rated vulnerabilities, too).

Exploit mitigation: Routers can be built to protect their kernel using a variety of exploit mitigation techniques, including the non-executable bit (NX) to mark a region of memory as non-executable. This was a common way of protecting the router, but FKIE found that the usage of exploit mitigation techniques was rare.

Private keys: We want to make it absolutely clear that there is no good reason to publish a private key, because a published private key does not provide any security at all! FKIE wrote. Publishing the private cryptographic key in the firmware allows an attacker to impersonate the device itself and do man in the middle attacks, an exploit that tries to fool the users PC and the server into believing that the attacker is the trusted router.

FKIE found that at least five private keys are published per firmware image. The Netgear R6800 provides a total number of 13 private keys in a single device. AVM was the only vendor FKIE found that did not publish private keys.

Hard-coded login credentials: You may already be familiar with hard-coded credentials: a router that uses admin and password as its default credentials. While that makes it easy to recover a lost password, it also makes it extremely easy for an attacker to take over your router. Furthermore, if the user cannot change a password, you might get a feeling that the password is related to a backdoor, FKIE wrote, implying that hard-coding credentials could have been added to allow monitoring of your device.

The good news is that more than 60% of the router firmware images do not have hard-coded login credentials, FKIE wrote. The bad news is that 50 routers do provide hard-coded credentials. Sixteen routers have well known or easy crackable credentials.

FKIEs report doesnt suggest choosing an open-source firmware replacement for your router, although that option is certainly available. Unfortunately, some of the firmware options are no longer maintained, or only work on a subset of (older) routers. Its disappointing that the easiest route for criminals to penetrate your home network appears to benot your PC, or your operating systembut the router youre using to connect to the rest of the world.

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Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Communication (FKIE) has carried out a study involving 127 home routers from seven brands to check for the presence of known security vulnerabilities in the latest firmware. The results are appalling.

The FKIE study found that 46 routers hadn't got a single security update within the past year and that many routers are affected by hundreds of known vulnerabilities.

It also found that vendors are shipping firmware updates without fixing known vulnerabilities, meaning that even if a consumer installs the latest firmware from a vendor, the router would still be vulnerable.

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FKIE assessed that ASUS and Netgear do a better job on some aspects of securing routers than D-Link, Linksys, TP-Link and Zyxel, but it argues the industry needs to do more to secure home routers.

FKIE found that AVM, a German router manufacturer, was the only vendor that didn't publish private cryptographic keys in its router firmware. The Netgear R6800 router contained 13 private keys.

In the worst cases of devices FKIE assessed, the routers hadn't been updated for more than five years.

About 90% of the routers in the study used a Linux operating system. However, manufacturers weren't updating the OS with fixes made available from Linux kernel maintainers.

"Linux works continuously to close security vulnerabilities in its operating system and to develop new functionalities. Really, all the manufacturers would have to do is install the latest software, but they do not integrate it to the extent that they could and should," said Johannes vom Dorp, a scientist at FKIE's Cyber Analysis & Defense department.

"Numerous routers have passwords that are either well known or simple to crack or else they have hard-coded credentials that users cannot change," he added.

The study targeted five key signals in firmware images to assess each manufacturer's approach to cybersecurity. These included the days since the last firmware update was released; how old are the OS versions running these routers; the use of exploit mitigation techniques; whether private cryptographic key material isn't private; and the presence of hard-coded login credentials.

FKIE concludes that router makers are significantly lagging in the delivery of security updates compared with operating system makers.

"The update policy of router vendors is far behind the standards as we know it from desktop or server operating systems," FKIE notes in the report.

"Most of the devices are powered by Linux and security patches for Linux kernel and other open-source software are released several times a year. This means the vendors could distribute security patches to their devices far more often, but they do not."

The results mirror findings from a 2018 US study by American Consumer Institute (ACI), which analyzed 186 small office/home office Wi-Fi routers from 14 different vendors. It found 155, 83%, of the firmware sampled had vulnerabilities to potential cyberattacks, and that each router had an average of 172 vulnerabilities.

ACI criticized router makers for not providing an auto-update mechanism to keep routers updated. Often updates are only made after high-profile attacks on routers, such as Mirai IoT malware, and the state-sponsored VPNFilter malware.

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As for exploit mitigation, a researcher who recently found 79 Netgear router models had a remotely exploitable flaw also found that its web-based administration panel never applies the exploit mitigation technique ASLR (address space layout randomization), lowering the bar for remote attackers to take over an affected router.

The German study found that more than a third of the devices use a kernel version 2.6.36 or older, with the latest security update for 2.6.36 provided in February 2011. It also found a Linksys WRT54GL router running on Linux kernel version 2.4.20, which was released in 2002.

"The worst case regarding high-severity CVEs is the Linksys WRT54GL powered by the oldest kernel found in our study," the report notes. "There are 579 high-severity CVEs affecting this product."

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Amazon Prime Day 2020 has been postponed, and while we wait for a new date, we can only speculate on what to expect from this post-pandemic sales event. When will it be? What will be on sale? How long will it be? We reveal all our speculations below.

While some may already be aware, Amazon are having a Summer Sale right now, which is live for a long six days to give customers a discount on everything from tech to furniture and appliances. This sale, though it's not a replacement of Amazon Prime Day 2020, is offering competitively-priced deals and is very close to the usual Amazon Prime Day date of mid-July. So, if you are after a bargain right now, you know exactly where to shop.

Amazon Prime Day 2020, we expect, will fall in September this year, though there's lots of speculation that it will be as late as 5th October we think that October is too close to Black Friday in November. In terms of what will be on sale, we reckon that Amazon Prime day will be more or less the same than it has been in previous years, just with fewer deals in order keep up with the lack of factory workers and delivery drivers currently working due to COVID-19. That, and the fact they're having a mega sale right now and are getting rid of some excess stock. While we still expect Amazon Prime Day to last for 48 hours as per usual, we do expect that the deals won't be as frequent as previous year as normally, deals drop every hour or so throughout the two-day fiasco.

The best-case scenario? A joint Amazon Prime Day with Black Friday would be incredible. Imagine: deals that are incredibly cheap, lots of them flowing in every few minutes or so and essentially, this event would be killing two birds with one stone. Reckon we could pitch it to them?

Head over to our dedicated deals page for more info on what's on offer right now from Amazon and several other retailers. Keep scrolling for current incredible Amazon deals and what we reckon will be on sale during

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We've taken care to review all the doorbells in our best video doorbells list at Real Homes, but the lockdown has made us realise just how important they can be in making daily life easier and more efficient.

Aside from enhancing home security which was previously our main motivation for buying video doorbells have proven vital for those who have been shielding during this period, making it super straightforward to navigate home deliveries without coming into any contact with delivery drivers.

So, when we spotted the eufy Security Wireless Video Doorbell, on offer as part of the Amazon Summer Sale, we just had to let you know. Life may be beginning to return to 'normal' but it's still important for many to limit contact with other people.

Shop the eufy Video Doorbell below. Then, check out more of our top picks from the Amazon Summer Sale.

eufy Security Wireless Video Doorbell | Was 199.99, now 154.99This smart doorbell has a huge 40 off today. You can talk through it, see through it and it's wired in so no need to charge all of the time.View Deal

So, what exactly does this video doorbell have to offer? Here are some of our favourite features:

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