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Insiders with ties to the Obama administration tell The Cable that U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has become the heir apparent to National Security Advisor Tom Donilon – a post at the epicenter of foreign-policy decision making and arguably more influential than secretary of state, a job for which she withdrew her candidacy last fall amid severe political pressure. “It’s definitely happening,” a source who recently spoke with Rice told The Cable. “She is sure [...] Security analysts have detected an ongoing attack that uses a huge number of computers from across the Internet to commandeer servers that run the WordPress blogging application. The unknown people behind the highly distributed attack are using more than 90,000 IP addresses to brute-force crack administrative credentials of vulnerable WordPress systems, researchers from at least three Web hosting services reported. At least one company warned that the attackers may be in [...] Security analysts have detected an ongoing attack that uses a huge number of computers from across the Internet to commandeer servers that run the WordPress blogging application. The unknown people behind the highly distributed attack are using more than 90,000 IP addresses to brute-force crack administrative credentials of vulnerable WordPress systems, researchers from at least three Web hosting services reported. At least one company warned that the attackers may be in [...] Summary: Anonymous appears to have published login and private information from over 4000 American bank executive credentials its Operation Last Resort, demanding US computer crime law reform. Following attacks on U.S. government websites last weekend, Anonymous seems to have made a new “Operation Last Resort” .gov website strike Sunday night. Anonymous appears to have published login and private information from over 4,000 American bank executive accounts in the name of its new Operation Last [...] Tensions are high all over the country at the polls today. The Michigan Republican Party is alleging that a poll watcher in Detroit on Tuesday morning was threatened with a gun. According to the Michigan GOP the poll watcher’s 911 call was rejected. Below is a press release from Michigan Republican Party spokesman Matt Frendeway: This morning, a legally credentialed poll watcher was threatened and intimidated while attempting to perform his legally allowed [...] Rachel Weiner Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and running mate Cheri Honkala were arrested outside Long Island’s Hofstra University ahead of tonight’s debate. After being denied entrance to the campus because they lacked credentials, the two candidates sat down in the street in front of the university with an American flag on their laps, the Long Island Report explains. They were led away by police officers after refusing to [...] From Carpe Diem: A few days ago, I reported on how MITx could revolutionize higher education by offering free online classes, along with a new benefit: credentials. Beginning this spring, students will be able to take free online courses from MIT, and if they prove they’ve learned the material through an assessment, they can pay a fee and receive a certificate from MITx. In a related recent development, Felix Salmon and The [...] For many conservatives, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is a unique specimen. A literal scion of one of the most controversial Republican political figures in recent memory, Paul has managed to form a cordial relationship with mainstream conservatives quite a bit less problematic than the active hostility courted by his doggedly contrarian father, and in the process, has become one of the more influential Tea Party figures in Washington. His name [...] From Capitalism is Freedom: Fort Leonard Wood Public Affairs director Tiffany Wood has provided the first official response to the shocking U.S. Army document that outlines the implementation of re-education camps, admitting that the manual was “not intended for public release” and claiming that its provisions only apply outside the United States, a contention completely disproved by the language contained in the document itself. After a reader sent Wood a link to [...] Every four years, as another US presidential election comes around, along comes a new batch of candidates with dodgy foreign policy credentials. Their blunders have inspired endless jokes, but they also discredit America in the eyes of the world. From Palin’s famous: “You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska,” to Michele Bachmann’s public support for waterboarding, some US politicians demonstrate a lack of basic knowledge of geography and international law. RT’s [...] We’ve all been there. We just had our first interview and apparently we impressed our potential employer with our skills, enthusiasm, and credentials. Now, the company is calling you back for a second interview, and it looks like there’s a big chance you’re going to get hired. There’s just one catch. The salary that the company is offering is just a little too low than what you’ve banked on.
What do you do [...] From CNET: A nasty bit of malware making the rounds on Facebook has reportedly made off with the usernames and passwords of more than 45,000 users. Most of those affected by the worm–called Ramnit–are from France and the United Kingdom, according to a bulletin issued by security researchers at Seculert. It is capable of infecting Windows executables, Microsoft Office, and HTML files, according to McAfee. “We suspect that the attackers behind Ramnit are using the stolen [...] Plan B: The plant Gevo is retrofitting in Luverne, Minnesota. BY KEVIN BULLIS Gevo, a prominent advanced-biofuels company that has received millions in U.S. government funding to develop fuels made from cellulosic sources such as grass and wood chips, is finding that it can’t use these materials if it hopes to survive. Instead, it’s going to use corn, a common source for conventional biofuels. What’s more, most of the product from its first [...] BY JOE POMPEO, Capital NewYork It still seems like not all New York Police Department officers got that memo from their boss a few weeks ago warning them not to interfere with members of the media during police actions such as those that have been ongoing as a result of the Occupy Wall Street protests. In this video, police are shown getting physical with and intentionally blocking the shots of a credentialed photojournalist covering [...] Though the Chicago Public Schools do not have money to give teachers’ a raise this school year, the powers-that-be found it necessary to purchase a $50,000 program to screen teacher applicants that many say isn’t working. Besides the teacher’s union being critical of the software approach to assisting the screening of teachers online, principal complain that applicants they wanted to hire are now not [...] Oh well. Here we go . On with the fisticuffs. Worlds weather gone wonky with good graphics. http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMas… Every year extraordinary weather events rock the Earth. Records that have stood centuries are broken. Great floods, droughts, and storms affect millions of people, and truly exceptional weather events unprecedented in human history may occur. But the wild roller-coaster ride of incredible weather events during 2010, [...] Sega has confirmed that the personal data of 1.29 million of its customers was stolen in an attack on its systems. It comes after the computer games firm said on Friday that e-mail addresses and dates of birth stored on the Sega Pass database were accessed by hackers. However, Sega continues to say that payment information, such as credit card numbers, remained safe. Sega spokeswoman Yoko Nagasawa said: “We are [...] China says it’s not to blame for Google’s Gmail spear phishing attacks that targeted the e-mail accounts of top U.S. officials. Google had accused China of being the country of origin for a massive hack campaign aimed at gaining personal Gmail login credentials of hundreds of senior U.S. government officials and officials from other countries, but China says the allegations are “unacceptable.” PC World — [...] “WE’RE excited to be working with them, and we hope they will help young people everywhere realise that you don’t need credentials to launch a company that disrupts the status quo,” declared the Thiel Foundation on May 25th as it announced its first batch of “20 Under 20″ fellows. The lucky winners were all under 20 when they applied. There are actually 24 fellows, rather [...] From Gold Core Gold Breaches Nominal High of $1,500/oz; Inflation Adjusted High of $2,400/oz Remains Long Term Target Gold has breached the $1500 level and reached new record nominal highs at $1,505.65/oz. Since yesterday it has gradually risen in all currencies and is approaching record nominal highs in all major currencies. Gold has risen to EUR1,037/oz, GBP920/oz, AUD1,412/oz, CHF1,344/oz and JPY124,640/oz, and is now not far from [...] According to a new report by Verizon and the U.S. Secret Service, a record number of data breaches were reported in 2010, though the number of compromised records dropped dramatically to 4 million in 2010 from 144 million in 2009. That the “all-time lowest amount of data loss” was recorded alongside the “all-time highest amount of incidents investigated” presents a strange juxtaposition. The report conjectures that the [...] At the Pearly Gates, Saint Peter tells him, “You look like Einstein, but you have NO idea the lengths that some people will go to sneak into Heaven. Can you prove who you really are?” Einstein ponders for a few seconds and asks, “Could I have a blackboard and some chalk?” Saint Peter snaps his fingers and a blackboard and chalk instantly appear. Einstein proceeds to describe with arcane mathematics and symbols [...] |
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