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Commerce Bank Database Hacked
Another article said that they thwarted the attack by “shut[ting] it (the database) down”. I wonder how they were able to have such poor security that someone could compromise their …
Bank Of India'S Website Compromised
Courtesy the F-Secure blog they show a case where the Bank of India website was compromised to include malicious iframes, one of which “…contains an obfuscated JavaScript that uses …
Best Science Images Of'07
Too bad they don’t have larger high-res versions. These would make very cool desktop backgrounds. National Geographic News Photo Gallery: Best Science Images of 2007 Honored
Filtering Out Press Release Spam
This may become useful. I’ve actually gotten so annoyed at organizations that insist on sending at least one marketing email per day that I had to unsubscribe from all of their mailings to get …
James Randi Is Taking On The Audiophiles
This is hilarious. I feel sorry for people who either really have such extraordinary hearing that they can’t use ordinary $19.99 cables in their home theater setup, or have deluded themselves …
Appendix Mystery Solved
Well, I had mine taken out two years ago so I hope I’m not at a disadvantage after the next GI bug. Function of the appendix found? A good bacteria safehouse. - Boing Boing “Immunologists …
Internet Discount Shopping Sites
I know people who use fatwallet.com and techbargains.com quite a bit. I wasn’t aware of the others, many of which have coupon codes. I always wondered where people got those codes, aside from …
Marijuana Arrests At All Time Quot High Quot-
“A pot-smoker is arrested every 38 seconds in America”. God damn it’s time to decriminalize this. We have real police work that could be done instead of wasting police, jail, and …
Lucky I'M Not A Kid These Days
…I would likely be arrested, expelled, or something. This is insane that drawings of what even “looked like a gun” are treated as “a threat”. We drew all kinds of war …
Intuit Quicken Backdoor Encryption Key Cracked
Turns out there is a 512-bit master encryption key used in all versions of Quicken since 2003 that allows for Intuit to decrypt your data (or potentially allow the Government to do so, as the …