Even the pros can fall victim to a routine traffic stop: Tour de France champion Alberto Contador was pulled over by a French cop today for cycling down the Galibier pass in the Alps without lights. The officer told the three-time Tour champion that he needed to be visible on…
Continue reading …Americans require their presidents to be at least 35 years old because surely nobody younger could run the country. It’s time to retire this “undemocratic, and even un-American” rule, writes Daniel Freedman at Forbes . People can decide for themselves whether “they want the ‘wise’ 45-year-old or the ‘inexperienced’ 32-year-old,” he…
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Group announces its latest attack via Twitter with message ‘Tango down – cia.gov – for lulz’ The CIA has become the latest target of self-styled “pirate ninja” hackers LulzSec. The Central Intelligence Agency website was unavailable for a few minutes on Wednesday evening as the group announced the attack via Twitter : “Tango down – cia.gov – for the lulz”. “We are looking into these reports,” a CIA spokeswoman said. The hackers, who describe themselves as “the world’s leaders in high-quality entertainment at your expense”, have gained international notoriety this month with a series of security breaches. Over the weekend LulzSec broke into a public website of the US Senate and released data stolen from the legislative body’s computer servers. Last week they hacked the website of an unnamed NHS organisation – one of England’s primary care trusts. The Department of Health said no patient’s medical records were accessed during the incident, which it described it as “a local issue” and “quite a low-level” lapse in IT security. Earlier this month LulzSec broke into the website of Sony Pictures Entertainment and exposed information from 37,000 users, including names, passwords, birthdates and email addresses. It also hacked into a webserver belonging to Nintendo in the US. The name of the group is derived from “LOL” (laugh out loud) and “security”. Hacking CIA United States Twitter Internet US national security Data and computer security David Batty guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Group announces its latest attack via Twitter with message ‘Tango down – cia.gov – for lulz’ The CIA has become the latest target of self-styled “pirate ninja” hackers LulzSec. The Central Intelligence Agency website was unavailable for a few minutes on Wednesday evening as the group announced the attack via Twitter : “Tango down – cia.gov – for the lulz”. “We are looking into these reports,” a CIA spokeswoman said. The hackers, who describe themselves as “the world’s leaders in high-quality entertainment at your expense”, have gained international notoriety this month with a series of security breaches. Over the weekend LulzSec broke into a public website of the US Senate and released data stolen from the legislative body’s computer servers. Last week they hacked the website of an unnamed NHS organisation – one of England’s primary care trusts. The Department of Health said no patient’s medical records were accessed during the incident, which it described it as “a local issue” and “quite a low-level” lapse in IT security. Earlier this month LulzSec broke into the website of Sony Pictures Entertainment and exposed information from 37,000 users, including names, passwords, birthdates and email addresses. It also hacked into a webserver belonging to Nintendo in the US. The name of the group is derived from “LOL” (laugh out loud) and “security”. Hacking CIA United States Twitter Internet US national security Data and computer security David Batty guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …President Obama’s White House is packed with his top campaign fundraisers, which probably shouldn’t be too surprising—because mega-bundler Donald Gips was in charge of hiring them, according to a new investigation from iWatch News . Gips, the former head of Level 3 Communications, bundled $500,000 for Obama. He’s currently…
Continue reading …A British study suggests that women who sleep on their left side on the last night of pregnancy have less risk of giving birth to a stillborn child, reports the Guardian . The researchers were quick to say their study in the British Medical Journal is only the “starting point for…
Continue reading …Facebook is calling into doubt a new estimate that it has lost 6 million users in the US, but the numbers wouldn’t surprise Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune one bit. She uses Facebook a lot herself and has what she calls a typical love-hate relationship with it. The negatives…
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Last summer, a glum shot of Keanu Reeves sparked a global campaign to put a smile on his face. Did it inspire Ode to Happiness, his first book? When it comes to concern for the wellbeing of the well-known, Keanu Reeves is in a class of his own. Last year, all it took was a picture of the 46-year-old sitting alone on a bench, morosely contemplating a sandwich, to go viral – and suddenly a global Cheer Up Keanu Day had been mobilised (15 June, in case you missed it). Nobody knows quite how this happened, but somehow it could only happen to Reeves. Maybe it’s his serene-to-the-point-of-stoned screen persona; but it’s
Continue reading …If you were offended by the Turn Right USA ad featuring machine-gun-toting gangsters ordering a Democratic candidate for Congress to “Give me your cash, bitch, so we can shoot up the streets,” well, tough . Ladd Ehlinger Jr, the conservative filmmaker who created the ad, tells Salon that critics of the…
Continue reading …The state rested its case against Casey Anthony this morning, with the defense team immediately asking the judge for an acquittal on three major charges, including first-degree premeditated murder. The defense contends that there is no evidence that excludes the possibility Anthony’s daughter Caylee was not murdered. Chief Judge Belvin…
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