Why Retailers Aren't Protecting You From Hackers - "(R)etailers also see more to gain from collecting consumer information than protecting it. That magnetic stripe shares your name, bank and card information with anything it touches. Tell a cashier your zip code, and that arms them with information to send a marketing blitz your way. Harnessing that data promises up to 60% higher returns, according to the McKinsey Global Institute. That lucrative flow of data could dry up if retailers adopt more advanced, chip-based cards."
Muslim Wonder Woman Design Puts Diana in a Headscarf
US Navy Ready to Deploy New Laser Gun - "The solid-state Laser Weapon System is designed to target what the Navy describes as "asymmetrical threats." Those include aerial drones, speed boats and swarm boats, all potential threats to warships in the Persian Gulf, where the Ponce, a floating staging base, is set to be deployed."
Dear Asus router user: You’ve been pwned, thanks to easily exploited flaw " a security researcher publicly disclosed the underlying vulnerability that exposed the hard drives of Jerry and so many other Asus router users. The June 22 report found the "ability to traverse to any external storage plugged in through the USB ports on the back of the router," but researcher Kyle Lovett said he went public only after privately contacting Asus representatives two weeks earlier and getting a response that the reported behavior "was not an issue." In July, Lovett published a second disclosure that offered additional technical details."
Billy Corgan to play eight hour long gig inspired by Hermann Hesse's novel 'Siddhartha' -
"Performance will be centered around an ambient/musical interpretation of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha; built by modular synthesis, on the fly," he said. "Readings of the text to go hand in hand with whatever is created; + the first @Hexistential poster, and event t-shirts too. Hope to see you there."
Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer -
Windows 8 designer: Why Microsoft forced Metro on us all
Iran's infiltration of a Navy computer network was far more extensive than previously thought - "The Wall Street Journal in September first reported the discovery of the
Iranian cyberattack. Officials at the time said the intruders had been
removed. However, officials now acknowledge that the attack was more
invasive, getting into what one called the "bloodstream" of the Navy and
Marine Corps system and managing to stay there until November."
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