You’re hired!
| May 25, 2011
Author: luapo
The $400 test that tells you how long you’ll live
| May 24, 2011
A blood test that can show how fast someone is ageing – and offers the tantalising possibility of estimating how long they have left to live – is to go on sale to the general public later this year.
Luke! This is your mother!
| May 24, 2011
Credit Card Skimmers Found IN Gas Pumps
| May 24, 2011
As if we weren’t getting robbed at the pump by gas prices, now you can really get robbed at the pump. Ugh, I hate scumbag crooks like this.
A pair of high-tech bandits were able to steal more than 3,600 credit card numbers with six electronic devices — known as “skimmers” — planted at five gas stations in Mountain View and Los Altos, according to the county district attorney.
U.S. Government: ‘Hack Us And We’ll Bomb You’
| May 24, 2011
The US revealed its “International Strategy for Cyberspace” (PDF) yesterday. It’s mostly blather about how terrific “cyberspace” is, but it gets more specific on a few key issues like national defense. Could our next war start because of a hack? The government says it’s possible.
“States have an inherent right to self-defense that may be triggered by certain aggressive acts in cyberspace,” says the policy. Indeed, such aggressive acts might compel a country like the US to act even when the hacking is targeted at an allied country.
“Certain hostile acts conducted through cyberspace could compel actions under the commitments we have with our military treaty partners,” says the document. “When warranted, the United States will respond to hostile acts in cyberspace as we would any other threat to our country.”
One Megabite
| May 24, 2011
