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Submission + - Alleged escort arrested in tech exec's fatal heroin overdose on yacht (latimes.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: A 26-year-old woman accused of being a high-priced escort is under arrest after allegedly injecting a 51 year-old former tech executive with heroin on his yacht in Santa Cruz and then watching him fatally overdose as she gathered her things.

Alix Catherine Tichleman of Folsom was arrested by Santa Cruz police Friday and booked on suspicion of murder, prostitution, destruction of evidence and providing narcotics in connection with the death of the 51-year-old man, identified by KSBW-TV as Forrest Timothy Hayes, who had worked for Google, Sun Microsystems and Apple.

Police allege Hayes was a client of Tichleman, who met him one night in November on his yacht in a local harbor. Security video from the yacht purportedly shows Tichleman preparing a dose of heroin and injecting Hayes with it. He is then seen having an adverse reaction to the dose, collapsing and becoming unconscious.

Rather than trying to help or calling 911, police say, Tichleman packed up the drugs and needles and at one point stepped over the body to finish a glass of wine before leaving.

"Finally, she leaves the boat and reaches back in to lower the blind and conceal the victim’s body from outside view," police said in a statement.

Submission + - Police Allege a Hooker Overdosed a Google Exec on a yacht, and walks away (latimes.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A 26-year-old woman accused of being a high-priced escort is under arrest after allegedly injecting a former tech executive with heroin on his yacht in Santa Cruz and then watching him fatally overdose as she gathered her things, closed the blinds to conceal the body, and then walked away.

Comment What platforms are effected? (Score 4, Interesting) 69

According to RSA, the malware is being delivered via email. In Brazil, when banking customers access their online banking site for the first time, they are often asked to install a security plugin. When the customer does so, a protection service is created and starts running on the PC. In addition, some shared libraries are also installed on the system and are loaded by the browser in order to help provide protection for customers during online banking operations, RSA noted.

However, the Boleto malware the company detected searches for specific versions of client side security plug-ins detects their shared libraries and patches them in real-time to dodge security. In one case, RSA analysts noticed that the malware accessed the plugin's memory area and modified a conditional JMP to a regular JMP operation, thereby thwarting the plugin's capabilities.

What platforms does this malware operate on exactly? The TFA doesn't say.

Comment Re:Ahhh ... (Score 1) 47

I can tell you for a fact, a free Class 1 StartSSL certificate can achieve an A+ rating from ssllabs.com when/if the technical server configuration is correct, because I saw it happen just this week on a server somewhere. StartSSL seems to make a profit by allowing newbies a free, documented (but otherwise 'supported' to what extent I didn't test at all...) learning process and having to pay higher than normal revocation fees to get everything functional and correctly setup. I made this mistake once myself, and then realized it was simply cheaper to pay about $15 for a new Class 2 certificate from Dreamhost SSL than to pay StartSSL to revoke my free, erroneous-URL certificate from them. StartSSL looks like a really good operation, but you really need to know what you are doing to really save money.

Here's a really good article to help newbie NGINX admins secure their servers using free StartSSL Class 1 certificates: https://konklone.com/post/swit...

What I've learned lately in my own research in this area is there's further differentiation of certificate values, such as the green Class 3 certificates which I semi-understand require more documentation to be filed (like passport scans?) and higher fees.

Submission + - Satellite reboot is about reconnecting with an old friend (latimes.com)

An anonymous reader writes: His wife calls him an egotist, NASA calls him a genius, and his friends call him a sore loser and insufferable winner.

Bob Farquhar says they're all right.

"I not only want to get things done, I want to be in your face at the end," the 82-year-old spaceflight engineer said. "And yes, I have a big ego, but it's not as big as Buzz Aldrin's."

The former Army paratrooper with a Stanford PhD is legendary for making spacecraft do things once thought impossible, and maybe even unwise. The only rules he followed faithfully during his 23 years at NASA were the laws of physics.

After years of lobbying NASA, he and a group of self-described space cowboys have won permission to be the first privately organized group to take control of a retired government satellite and change its orbit.

And it's not just any satellite: Farquhar helped send the International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 into space 36 years ago — at 12 minutes and 12 seconds after the hour on Aug. 12.

Comment FireFox has a nice session manager extension. (Score 2) 99

Firefox has had a sessions plugin for years already, that I couldn't live without. The closest thing I found to use in Chrome can't hold a candle to it:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

Another extremely useful FF extension is called Scrapbook, which I use to collect and prioritize web pages, sometimes ads I am interested in, saving only the precise HTML part I want to my disk, note-like. It also saves a link to the original source, which may or may not disappear as time passes.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

Not to mention Adblock Plus, FireBug, bla bla bla.

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