…onymous boasted of stealing Stratfor’s confidential client list, which includes entities ranging from Apple Inc. to the U.S. Air Force to the Miami Police Department, and mining it for more than 4,000 credit card numbers, passwords and home addresses. Austin, Texas-based Stratfor provides political, economic and military analysis to help clients reduce risk, according to a description on its…
UEFA has confirmed that yellow cards rules used by the Champions League will not be changed for at least three years. Seven players are suspended for the Chelsea vs. Bayern Munich final after six were cautioned in the semi-finals. The rules are different for Euro 2012 when UEFA will wipe the slate clean for yellow cards after the quarter-finals. A UEFA spokesman said: “Different rules can a…
…e their customers. After Bank of America announced their debit card fee, Navy Federal Credit Union, the nation’s largest credit union, reported their volume of new account openings was more than 20% above normal. Bank of America had planned to start charging customers next year. Banks began crafting the monthly charges to make up revenue lost to a law that slashes the fees they charge retail…
…a lawsuit over their “honor all cards” policies, which tied acceptance of credit to debit cards. The US Department of Justice also brought and settled a civil suit against the two firms in 2010 over policies that prevented stores from offering their customers cheaper forms of payments. However, that settlement left in place credit card company rules that stop stores from charging custo…
ured on the eight of hearts in the county’s deck of cold-case playing cards, among seven other people who vanished under suspicious circumstances. Judith Bello is the first missing person in the 52 cards to be located. Since receiving last week’s call, detectives worked to confirm her story and verify her identity. Through multiple interviews with Judith Bello and her family, detective…
While many use the Black Friday sales as an opportunity to get big-ticket items at a bargain price, the style set knows that it is also the perfect chance to bag new season stock at a serious markdown. And fashion retailers are well aware, with some opening as early as 8:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day so that fans can make the most of the holiday discounts. This year, sartorially-inclined shoppers w…
…over fees charged for card transactions made by people visiting Europe MasterCard, which said it would “fully co-operate” with regulators, could be fined up to $740 million, or 10% of its 2012 revenue, if found guilty. The credit card firm said that it always aimed “to balance the interests of both consumers and retailers”. The investigation will examine payments made by p…
US credit firms Visa, Mastercard and Discover have warned that credit card holders’ personal information could be at risk after a security breach. The companies said there had been “no breach” of its own system, instead blaming a third party. Security blog KrebsOnSecurity, which first reported the story, said industry sources believed more than 10 million cards may have been com…
Your family may not be together when disaster strikes, so plan how you will contact one another. Think about how you will communicate in different situations. Complete a contact card for each adult family member. Have them keep these cards handy in a wallet, purse or briefcase, etc. Additionally, complete contact cards for each child in your family. Put the cards in their backpacks or book bags….
ense attorney Ed Chernoff told the jury that Michael Jackson caused his own death. Dr. Conrad Murray wiped tears from his eyes as Ed Chernoff said that the evidence will show that the singer swallowed 8, 2 mg pills of Lorazepam and injected himself with a dose of propofol. Ed Chernoff said that Michael Jackson, who was frustrated because he could not sleep and frustrated because his doctor refused…
Adam Lanza, a troubled 20-year-old loner with a history of autistic behavior, is the monster behind a horrific shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 people, including 20 children, dead on Friday. Adam Lanza shot his mother Nancy, a kindergarten teacher, at the upscale suburban home they shared together and then took three of her guns and drove the Sandy Hook Elementary School a…
Apple is in the final stages of purchasing a fingerprint security firm – meaning future iPhones are likely to have an extra layer of built-in security. There are even suggestions that iPhone 5- due to be unveiled on Wednesday – will already have a fingerprint scanner built in, stopping anyone from reading your messages and data without your fingerprint authorization. If AuthenTec agre…
…ty, of paying for votes using gift cards for a supermarket chain. Numerous videos have emerged of people claiming they received credit in exchange for voting for the PRI. The party governed Mexico for 71 years until it was defeated in the 2000 presidential poll. …
…iately. The move which allowed no exceptions for victims of Sandy caused massive confusion, as earlier in the day Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno had told county-level officials to accept e-mailed ballots until 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday. However, the security risks inherent in voting remotely was deemed a danger that could compromise the result and the Lt. Gov was forced to issue new advice to beleaguered voters…
aving the euro.” However, Nicos Anastasiades accused other members of the eurozone of making “unprecedented demands that forced Cyprus to become an experiment”. Cyprus needs to raise 5.8 billion euros ($7.4 billion) to qualify for the bailout, and has become the first eurozone member country to bring in capital controls to prevent a torrent of money leaving the island and credit…
Sanford Ziff, a Miami millionaire philanthropist and the founder of Sunglass Hut is hoping to scrape his recently-deceased wife’s name off of the city’s Ballet Opera house in order to make room for the name of his new younger wife. Sanford Ziff, 86, and he and his wife of 15 years, Dolores, were well-known for their charitable giving throughout Miami. Just months after Dolores died th…
Microsoft has unveiled Windows Phone 8, the next version of its smartphone operating system. Windows Phone 8 shares much of its code with the firm’s PC system, making it easier for developers to write programs for different types of devices. The company said it should mean there would be some “amazing games” for handsets running its new release. A tie-up with Nokia has already b…
household was first thrown into turmoil after Robert Kardashian reportedly found Kris in the arms of her boy toy Todd Waterman, according to the documents obtained by Star Magazine. While Kris Jenner, 56, mentioned a younger man who broke apart her marriage in her memoirs, she named him only as Ryan. However the man in question has since stepped forward to reveal his true identity to Star. Accord…
…count and was accommodated and acknowledged that the branch was closed “until the protesters could be removed”. The footage presented by Gawker.com follows another video uploaded to YouTube on October 8, which shows three Occupy Santa Cruz protesters attempting to close their accounts at a local Bank of America branch. The YouTube video shows two women walking into the Bank of America branch and s…
…or smooth gaming,” said Sasa Markinkovic, AMD’s head of desktop and software product marketing. “What we are able to do with Trinity is offer HD, 1080p resolution, gaming and deliver 30 frames per second. “When you look at Ivy Bridge it is a step forward for Intel in terms of graphics performance, but it’s still not good enough for HD gaming – and that makes the…
NASA has identified a 460 ft wide asteroid, 2011 AG5, soaring through space and calculated that it could potentially impact Earth on February 5th 2040. The 2011 AG5 has already attracted the concern of the UN Action Team on near-Earth objects, which has begun discussing ways to divert it. The UN Action Team has put the odds of it hitting us at one in 625, though that could change nearer the time….
id we’d call the police, let a little time go by and then I decided to drive Kris back to wherever she had to go. “I was driving in an open Jeep at the time. As I pulled out of my garage, it was about 5:00 p.m. and a sunny day, he comes charging out with a golf club in his 450 SL convertible. “He took a swing and whacked the back of my car. I said <<holy s***, Kris, can I pull over and confr…
At least 37 people have been killed by an avalanche in Badakhshan province, north-eastern Afghanistan, according to officials. The provincial governor’s office said another six people were injured when the snow hit a village in Shekay district, near the Tajikistan border. The village had been wiped away, said spokesman Abdul Marouf Rasikh. Badakhshan is one of the country’s poorest an…
sands more National Police Agency of Japan figures show almost 300,000 buildings were destroyed and a further one million damaged, either by the quake, tsunami or resulting fires. Almost 4,000 roads, 78 bridges and 29 railways were also affected. Patrick Fuller, of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and who was there in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, te…
…umor-nourishing blood vessels, the research shows. As a result tumors find it easier to “metastasise”, or spread around the body. Tests on mice showed that both Glivec and Sutent depleted pericytes by 70% while metastasis rates tripled. Glivec, the brand name of the drug imatinib, and Sutent (sunitinib) have both been shown in trials to increase patient survival by a significant degree. However, t…
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