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Multiple undercover investigators had their personal data exposed to hackers after a cyber attack struck a key contractor of the Department of Homeland Security in early August.
In fact, the data breach in question has affected the data of at least 25,000 workers, a number that could go up even further in the coming days. Continue reading “Cyber attack on government contractor exposes undercover agents”
The Islamic State spokesperson who threatened the United States by pledging to “raise the flag of Allah” over the White House has been killed.
According to the US State Department, Islamic State rep Abu Mosa was killed in Syria during an attack at the Tabqa Airbase. This battle apparently involved forces under the Syrian government of Bashar Assad, which is in the midst of a deadly civil war that has raged for three years now. Continue reading “ISIS spokesman who pledged to ‘raise flag of Allah’ in US is dead”
An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9R rocket broke up in midair soon after it took off at the company’s development site in Texas. No one was hurt in the crash, which happened during a test flight.
A three-engine version of the Falcon 9 rocket was being tested on Friday, based on SpaceX’s Grasshopper prototype. Continue reading “SpaceX rocket explodes during test flight”
Weapons are easily smuggled through so-called naked body scanners, according to new research released Thursday. The devices are no longer used at airports in the United States but remain in other government facilities worldwide.
The Rapiscan Secure 1000 Single Post “backscatter” scanner – called the “naked scanner” by critics because of the images it produced of those inside – cannot detect a weapon hidden on the side of one’s body, according to the team of researchers from the University of California-San Diego, University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins University. Continue reading “Researchers: Tests show TSA ‘naked’ body scanners can be easily fooled”
Scientists believe they have come up with a way to print drugs, using a 3D printer. They say they can create a capsule, which can be swallowed, and it will also allow doctors to alter a dosage according to the specific requirements.
A team of researchers, from the Louisiana Tech University, believes they have come up with a solution to find a biodegradable material, which could be used to contain everyday drugs, as well as chemotherapeutic compounds for those needing cancer treatments. The 3D printer would be able to create the capsule, meaning that medicine only needs to be inserted before it is sealed, Science Daily reports. Continue reading “3D printing drugs – New technology to revolutionize medical industry”
While the US government touted its “record” settlement reached this week with Bank of America for mortgage fraud that helped fuel the 2008 recession, the details of the agreement indicate yet another slap on the wrist for an offending Wall Street titan.
Bank of America agreed to a $16.65 billion settlement with federal authorities for selling toxic mortgages and misleading investors, the US Justice Department announced Thursday. Continue reading “Banksters win again: BoA settlement with US govt allows Wall St fraudsters to ‘act with impunity,’ critics say”
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza militants Friday gunned down 18 alleged spies for Israel in an apparent attempt to plug security breaches and deter others, a day after Israel killed three top Hamas military commanders in an airstrike likely guided by collaborators.
In one incident, masked gunmen lined up seven men, their heads covered by bags, along a wall outside a Gaza City mosque and shot them to death in front of hundreds of people, witnesses said. A note pinned on the wall said they had leaked information about the location of tunnels, homes of fighters and rockets that were later struck by Israel. Continue reading “Gaza militants kill 18 alleged spies for Israel”
Welcome to “How to get our forces into Syria and look justified.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s top-ranked military officer says the surging Islamic State group has an “apocalyptic, end-of-days strategic vision” in the Middle East and cannot be defeated unless the United States and a coalition of partners confront it head-on in Syria. Continue reading “Dempsey hits Islamic militant ‘end-of-days’ vision”
BAY SHORE – A Bay Shore mother is taking legal action against the town of Islip for her son’s injury on hot asphalt.
The 10-year-old boy, named David, says he got second-degree burns on his leg, hand and arm after falling off his bicycle Wednesday in Bay Shore and landing on the asphalt. Continue reading “Nikita Jordan, of Bay Shore, takes legal action against town of Islip after son is hurt on hot asphalt”
Crisis acting at its finest.
ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The parents of slain journalist James Foley said they regarded an email they received from his captors last week as a hopeful sign they could negotiate with the Islamic militants.
Speaking on NBC’s “Today,” John and Diane Foley from Rochester, New Hampshire, said they had last heard from the captors via several emails in December. John Foley said he was excited to see the latest email, even though the kidnappers threatened to kill his son, because he hoped they would be willing to negotiate. Continue reading “Parents had hoped to negotiate with Foley captors”
The US Navy is looking at how exoskeletons could be used at naval shipyards. Exoskeletons enable workers to operate heavyweight hand tools for longer by transferring the weight of the items from the body directly the ground.
Lockheed Martin’s FORTIS exoskeleton is totally unpowered, yet it distributes heavy weight away from human muscles via its secure and grounded construction.
Lockheed Martin claims the FORTIS exoskeleton’s lightweight ergonomic construction allows its operator to move freely in a natural and flexible way, which greatly increases a worker’s productivity. Continue reading “US Navy tests power-free industrial exoskeletons”
Earlier this summer, American Special Forces attempted to rescue photojournalist James Foley and other hostages held by Islamic State militants in Syria, but the mission failed because the prisoners were not at the suspected location.
According to the Washington Post, the United States acted after six other Western hostages were previously let go by the extremist group and had been debriefed by intelligence officers. White House officials said the operation involved several dozen US commandos engaging militants in battle – one American was wounded – but that Foley and the others could not be saved. Continue reading “US tried and failed to save Foley, other IS hostages in Syria”
America’s second largest lender has reached a $16.65 billion settlement with US federal authorities for selling toxic mortgages misleading investors, the Justice Department said Thursday.
“This historic resolution – the largest such settlement on record – goes far beyond ‘the cost of doing business,’” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement posted on the US Justice Department website on Thursday. Continue reading “Bank of America agrees to record $17bn settlement over mortgage fraud”
BEIRUT (AP) — The extremists of the Islamic State group have turned their social media into a theater of horror, broadcasting a stomach-turning stream of battles, bombings and beheadings to a global audience.
The strategy is aimed at terrorizing opponents at home and winning recruits abroad. But there are increasing signs of pushback — both from companies swiftly censoring objectionable content and users determined not to let it go viral. Continue reading “Social media pushes back at militant propaganda”
SEATTLE (AP) — The location of the three bodies was revealed by the melting snow, but getting to them was another matter. They were high on a glacier at one of the most treacherous spots on Mount Rainier, an area pummeled by falling ice and rocks.
So rangers borrowed a tool from their colleagues at Denali National Park in Alaska — a mechanical claw that’s so highly specialized it hasn’t been used in years. A helicopter equipped with the device plucked the bodies of the three climbers off Mount Rainier on Tuesday, in the same area where a party of six vanished last May. Continue reading “Bodies of 3 climbers retrieved from Mount Rainier”
So in other words, an out of work British actor got a temp job.
LONDON (AP) – The black-clad Islamic militant fighter who appears in a video beheading American journalistJames Foley appears to be British, the U.K. foreign minister said Wednesday – a development that underscores the insurgents’ increasingly sophisticated use of Western fighters to mobilize recruits and terrorize enemies.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the man in the video with Foley “appears to have been a British person.” Continue reading “British fighter appears to have role in Foley beheading”
Russia’s consumer watchdog has shut down four McDonald’s restaurants in central Moscow – including the first-ever outlet in the country – over “administrative violations.” More of the company 430 Russian franchises are under investigation.
“Multiple violations of sanitary norms were detected in the sourcing of food and waste disposal in McDonald’s restaurants during inspections carried out between the 18th and 20th of August,” said an official statement from the watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor. Continue reading “Four Moscow McDonalds shut by Russian consumer watchdog”
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In its latest personal attack on a prominent official from a rival country, North Korea on Wednesday called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry a wolf with a “hideous lantern jaw.”
North Korea has unleashed a slew of crude insults against leaders in Washington and Seoul this year, calling President Barack Obama a monkey and South Korean President Park Geun-hye a prostitute. Wednesday’s slur against Kerry appeared only in a Korean-language dispatch, suggesting it was meant to rally anti-U.S. sentiment and burnish the leadership’s image domestically at a time when Washington and Seoul are conducting annual military drills that Pyongyang calls an invasion rehearsal. Continue reading “North Korea insults John Kerry over his looks”
About 4.5 million patients at any of the 206 Community Health Systems-operated hospitals around the United States have had their records stolen by hackers, the company announced Monday. The stolen data includes very sensitive information.
Anyone who received treatment in a CHS-operated hospital over the last five years is affected by the breach. However, patients who were merely referred to one of the company’s hospitals during that time period are also impacted. The hackers stole names, Social Security numbers, physical address, birthdays and telephone numbers in two attacks this spring. It does not include credit card, medical or clinical information, the Wall Street Journal reported. Continue reading “Hackers steal 4.5 million patient records from multi-state hospital network”
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California slaughterhouse involved in a massive beef recall processed cows with cancer while U.S. livestock inspectors took lunch breaks and later distributed the diseased cattle, according to federal charges announced Monday.
Prosecutors alleged that the owners of Petaluma-based Rancho Feeding Corp. schemed with employees to slaughter about 79 cows with skin cancer of the eye rather than stopping plant operations during inspector lunch breaks. Then, the government alleges, plant workers swapped the heads of diseased cattle with heads of healthy cows to hide them from inspectors. Continue reading “4 at slaughterhouse behind beef recall indicted”
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