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  CSO – The recent arrest of Higinio O. Ochoa III, of Galveston, Texas — allegedly a member of the Anonymous-linked CabinCr3w –generated considerable amusement (and some unbearably bad puns) when it was reported that the FBI tracked him down using photos he had posted of his girlfriend’s breasts (covered somewhat by a bikini top). [...]

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A 20-year-old bodyboarder has been killed by a giant shark estimated at up to five metres long that bit off his leg in a Cape Town bay, in South Africa’s second deadly mauling this year. David Lillienfeld’s brother, Gustav, tried to pull him to safety when the shark struck while the siblings were bodyboarding, Eyewitness [...]

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Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the police investigation into alleged attempts to access an anti-terror hotline and record conversations. The youths, aged 17 and 16, were taken into custody on Thursday evening after an investigation by the police central e-crime unit. The pair was arrested at an address in the West Midlands [...]

CORCORAN, Calif. — A prison panel denied parole today to mass murderer Charles Manson in his 12th and probably final bid for freedom. Manson, now a gray-bearded, 77-year-old, did not attend the hearing where the parole board ruled he had shown no efforts to rehabilitate himself and would not be eligible for parole for another [...]

Carlos Robles just reports that nor in Oaxaco or in Mexico City any damage has been reported. Earthquake-Report.com does not expect any damage neither – This is a typical subduction earthquake where the Oceanic plate is subducting the North American plate. – The epicenter is located in a rural area without any important cities. This [...]

(Reuters) – Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam on Tuesday refused to sign a bill that would permit discussion of creationism in classrooms alongside the traditional evolutionary-based explanation of the origins of life, but allowed it to become law anyway. The legislation, dubbed the “Monkey Bill” by critics, had sailed through the conservative-leaning state’s Republican-dominated legislature. Haslam, [...]

Is CISPA the new SOPA? This article decodes the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, the scariest threat to Internet freedom and privacy currently before the U.S. Congress. The bipartisan measure, also known as the Rogers-Rupperberger Cyber Security Bill, has set off something of an online war between the politicians and companies who are pushing for [...]

Gulf Air, Bahrain’s national carrier, has notified its customers and passengers that its official Facebook page was hacked early this morning. ‘Right now, the page is not under our control, so kindly ignore any messages, videos or pictures that may be posted,’ said an email sent by the airline to its customers. It said: ‘We are [...]

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We’ve all heard of Twitter accounts getting hacked. It’s happened to Ashton Kutcher, Justin Bieber, Steve Wozniak, numerous media outlets. Even we “normal” folks can be compromised, unwittingly. Recently my coworker accidentally clicked a URL-shortened link that resulted in her account spewing Direct Messages with a phishing link. We were reminded again last week when [...]

For those of you following the CubeCart Hack that has left roughly 64,000 ecommerce businesses open to full database leaks, including personal details like credit card data. It was not my intention to publish intimate the details of this case to the world as the truth will very likely create ripples through the shopping cart [...]

Pastebin.com plans to police content posted on the site in order to quickly remove data dumps and other personal information. Pastebin will hire new staffers to actively monitor content being posted and remove sensitive data, Jeroen Vader, a Dutch entrepreneur behind the popular text-sharing site, told the BBC on Apr. 2. At the moment, the [...]

(Reuters) – New York and federal authorities are investigating the meaning and origin of a graphic that surfaced on Monday on the Internet apparently threatening an al Qaeda attack on New York City. The graphic is a stylized photograph of the Manhattan skyline superimposed with a Hollywood-style caption that says: “ALQAEDA – coming soon again [...]