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clm1970 writes:
Criminals intent on stealing millions of dollars from consumer bank accounts plan to unleash a massive cyberattack on major U.S. banks, security firm McAfee warns in a new report.
McAfee’s report confirms a warning from RSA, the security division of EMC Corp., which said in October that a criminal ring had created an advanced cyberattack to steal money from bank accounts at major banks, according to CNNMoney.
Read more: McAfee: Massive Cyberattack on US Banks Planned
Important: Can you afford to Retire?
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clm1970 writes:
A team of scientists working out of Bangor University in Wales has developed a commercially affordable method of using Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OOFDM) over fibre optic lines, which could deliver broadband ISP speeds that are 2,000 times faster than current services.
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clm1970 writes:
Speaking at a conference in Copenhagen, Denmark Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization aid antibiotic resistance could bring about "the end of modern medicine as we know it.". Diseases once easy to treat are becoming more and more resistant to conventional treatments. Even drug resistant strains of salmonella, E. coli, and gonorrhea have been discovered.
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clm1970 writes:
A recent investigation into the supposed "Tin Whiskers" on the Toyota acceleration problem has yielded some results. A symposium at the "International Tin Whisker Symposium" detailed that depending on how the accelerator pedals in Toyota vehicles were actuated could trigger sudden and unintended acceleration. It seems safe to say that "tin whiskers" are a big problem when there's enough interest to have an "international symposium" on the subject.
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clm1970 writes:
An Iranian engineer claims the recent drone that crashed in Iran was actually hijacked by the military exploiting a well known weakness in GPS technology. It was as simple as reprogramming the coordinates to think it was landing in Afghanistan and not Iran.
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clm1970 writes:
"A water-pump failure in Illinois that appeared to be the first foreign cyberattack on a public utility in the United States was in fact caused by a plant contractor traveling in Russia, according to a source familiar with a federal investigation of the incident.
After analyzing the incident it was determined that "no indicators of malicious activity were found". A plant contractor was traveling in Russia on personal business at the time."
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clm1970 writes:
A Canadian hacker allegedly managed to compromise a Florida child's XBOX 360 and after prank calling 9-1-1 caused a SWAT team to descend upon the home.
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clm1970 writes:
In a new treatment for paraplegics with complete spinal cord injuries an Oregon man is able to move freely and even take steps. The treatment had previously only had shown promise in persons with only partial severs of the spinal cord.
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clm1970 writes:
Finding the proverbial needle in the haystack the Black Box from Air France Flight 447 has been recovered almost two years after the crash that killed all 228 passengers on board. Investigators have been able to download the data and can further sift for clues as to what caused the mysterious crash.
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clm1970 writes:
Another case of ham operators providing an ancillary but vital service to the local community using their own equipment and volunteering their time
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clm1970 writes:
NASA and Russian scientists are disagreeing on the possibility of this asteroid hitting Earth in 2036. NASA has discounted the description as being very remote and could still be averted a la the Deep Impact probe in 2005.
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clm1970 writes:
In another conventional use for an arguably unconventional hobby given the technology of 2011 NASA is requesting the help of Amateur Radio or "ham operators" to help listen to a beacon signal of a nano-satellite. Many say the hobby is dying but for every "death knell" it seems another application brings it back to life to prove its usefulness.
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clm1970 writes:
In what was thought to be possibly an isolated incident now had the Feds interested on a national level. Many of the details are missing from the story but the man obviously had some intricate knowledge of how the machines worked in order to be able to manipulate them. Can't help but think what would have happened to the poor fella if this were the early 1970's and the Mafia and not the FBI dispensed their justice.
