Aug 3, 2011 4 Comments ›› Angelia
CNN: Seventy-two people have been charged in an online global child pornography ring that originated in Louisiana, in what is described as the largest prosecution of its kind, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday. Dubbed Operation Delego, the federal law enforcement action began in December 2009, targeting more than 500 people around the world allegedly participating in ...
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Y Tech: Ängelholm, a small town along the coast of Sweden, isn't the first place you'd think to look in the search for a nuclear reactor. But that's just what police in the seaside city were tasked with hunting down when one of its citizens took it upon himself to construct his own radioactive power plant ...
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The Telegraph: Internet Explorer users 'have below-average IQ: Users of the most popular web browser, Internet Explorer, tend to have lower-than-average IQ, according to a survey of online habits. PC World reports that a "psychometric consulting" firm called AptiQuant gave free online IQ tests to 100,000 people, and then plotted the scores against the browser on which ...
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NY Daily News: President Obama brought his debt battle to Twitter and he lost – more than 40,000 Twitter followers. Obama asked Americans Friday to call, email, and tweet Congressional leaders to “keep the pressure on” lawmakers in hopes of reaching a bipartisan deal to raise the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt limit ahead of an Aug. 2 ...
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LONDON – (AP) NATO is looking into claims that hackers have breached its security and accessed scads of material so confidential the hacker group itself deemed it "irresponsible" to publish them all, despite a series of international raids Tuesday designed to corral the hacking activity. "NATO is aware that hacker group released what it claims ...
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AP: KABUL, Afghanistan- The battle against the Taliban turned high-tech in Afghanistan on Wednesday with insurgents claiming their cell phones and website were hacked to spread false reports about the death of their leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. Taliban spokesmen quickly denied that their one-eyed, reclusive leader had died. Later, the Taliban's cultural affairs commission issued a lengthy ...
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PRNewswire TheTeaParty.net announced that the Presidential Twitter Debate scheduled for 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. ET on July 20 will be followed by a reception for activists traveling from all over New England to the Grappone Conference Center in Concord NH. TheTeaParty.net has received a deluge of requests for use of their groundbreaking Twitter debate platform for ...
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Fox News: More than a dozen suspected members of "Anonymous" were arrested this morning in states including Florida, New Jersey and California, in what appears to be a nationwide takedown of the notorious hacking group, FoxNews.com has exclusively learned. The arrests are part of an ongoing investigation into Anonymous, which has claimed responsibility for numerous cyberattacks against ...
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Daily Caller: Unlike the last go-round, we may have a genuine Capitol Hill Twitter hacker on our hands. An unauthorized user breached the official Twitter account of Ohio Republican Rep. Bill Johnson, according to a statement issued by his office. “Late Wednesday night, we learned that Congressman Johnson’s official Twitter account had been compromised by an unauthorized ...
Continue ReadingJul 16, 2011 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Bugatti Veyron is a modern automotive legend. The sleek speedster from Volkswagen boasts a top speed of over 260mph, making it the fastest road-legal car in the world, and it has a stunningly large $1.5 million price tag to match. Because of this astronomical cost of entry, only a few hundred of the vehicles ...
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FoxNews: U.S. law-enforcement agencies are increasingly obtaining warrants to search Facebook, often gaining detailed access to users' accounts without their knowledge. A Reuters review of the Westlaw legal database shows that since 2008, federal judges have authorized at least two dozen warrants to search individuals' Facebook accounts. Many of the warrants requested a laundry list of personal ...
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PC World: The Anonymous hacking group said Monday it had broken into military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton's network and posted 90,000 military e-mail addresses and passwords online. Booz Allen isn't commenting. "As part of @BoozAllen security policy, we generally do not comment on specific threats or actions taken against our systems," the company said via its Twitter ...
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CBSNews: In the latest White House social media foray, Twitter will enter the East Room. President Obama will respond to "tweets," questions from Twitter followers across the country. The White House hoped the event would focus on jobs and the economy. Officials said Twitter would choose the questions based partly on how often they were "retweeted." The president ...
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KHOU: A new state law says men no longer have to make child support payments if they discover the child is not theirs, but a Houston man says he still has to pay. Ray Thomas contacted KHOU 11 News saying he is frustrated because he owes more than $50,000, even though he is not the ...
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USA Today: President Obama called for the federal government to increase support for manufacturing and robotics technology on Friday in a speech in Pittsburgh. "If we want a robust growing economy, we need a robust manufacturing sector," Obama said, announcing the "Advanced Manufacturing Partnership." The partnership between universities, firms and the federal government, would open engineering labs ...
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FoxNews: The anarchist hackers of the world are uniting. In a statement released over the weekend, rogue hacker group LulzSec -- which in recent weeks has defaced and disabled sites from Sony to the CIA -- has pledged to unite with its sister collective Anonymous in a new cybercampaign against the world’s governments. Codenamed Operation Anti-Security, the ...
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Los Angeles Times: Spanish police on Friday reportedly arrested three alleged members of the hacker and activist group Anonymous on suspicion of taking part in online attacks against Sony's PlayStation network, as well as banks, businesses and government websites. Police told reporters in Spain that the three "hacktivists," whose identities haven't yet been released, were involved in ...
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