Knoxville,Tenn.---He shot and killed them because they were liberals.
Cops revealed yesterday that the out-of-work truckdriver accused of opening fire at a Unitarian church, killing two people, left behind a note suggesting he targeted the house of worship because of it's liberal policies including it's acceptance of gays. A letter found in Jim Adkisson's SUV indicated he picked the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church because, the police chief said, he was upset with "liberals in general as well as gays." Adkisson, a 58-year old truck driver on the verge of losing his food stamps, had 76 rounds with him when he entered the church and pulled a shotgun from a guitar case during a children's performance of the musical " Annie ". The Associated Press ---nydnews 7-29-08
Right-wing pundit fights brain tumor
Boston--- conservative political commentator Robert Novak has been diagnosed with a brain tumor--less than a week after he struck a homeless man with his Corvette and was ticketed because he drove away.
Novak, 77, fell ill on Cape Cod this weekend while visiting his daughter and was rushed to the hospital, where he said he was diagnosed Sunday with the tumor. " I will be suspending my journalistic work for an indefinite but, God willing, not too lengthy period. " he said in a statement. His assistants aid doctors had not yet done a biopsy to determine if the tumor was malignant. ---Associated Press 7-29-08
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
New York governor, NAACP condemn magazine cover
New York governor, NAACP condemn magazine cover
By LISA CORNWELL, Associated Press Writer
Paterson, a Democrat who is New York's first black governor, told delegates at the civil rights organization's national convention that the cover that hit newsstands Monday is "one of the most malignant, vicious covers of a magazine I have ever seen," drawing a loud applause.
"It depicted them as angry, hateful, violent and unpatriotic," Paterson added.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People released a resolution that calls the cover "tasteless, Islam-a-phobic, mean spirited and racially offensive." It calls on other Americans who are offended by the cover to contact the magazine about their concerns.
A message seeking comment from the New Yorker was left at the magazine's offices on Thursday.
The cover depicts Obama in traditional Muslim clothing while his wife, Michelle, has an assault rifle slung over one shoulder and is dressed in camouflage and combat boots with her hair in an Afro. The cover shows them bumping fists as a flag burns in a fireplace behind them and a portrait of Osama bin Laden hangs above the mantel.
The magazine has said satire it uses satire "to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that's the spirit of this cover."
New Yorker editor David Remnick told the Huffington Post Web site that the cover was chosen because it had something to say.
In comments after his speech, Paterson said that no matter what reason the magazine gives for the cover, it was hurtful.
"The reality is that it hurts people, they knew it would hurt people; it was designed to do that and also to feed the prurient interest of bigoted, prejudiced people in this society," Paterson said.
By LISA CORNWELL, Associated Press Writer
Paterson, a Democrat who is New York's first black governor, told delegates at the civil rights organization's national convention that the cover that hit newsstands Monday is "one of the most malignant, vicious covers of a magazine I have ever seen," drawing a loud applause.
"It depicted them as angry, hateful, violent and unpatriotic," Paterson added.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People released a resolution that calls the cover "tasteless, Islam-a-phobic, mean spirited and racially offensive." It calls on other Americans who are offended by the cover to contact the magazine about their concerns.
A message seeking comment from the New Yorker was left at the magazine's offices on Thursday.
The cover depicts Obama in traditional Muslim clothing while his wife, Michelle, has an assault rifle slung over one shoulder and is dressed in camouflage and combat boots with her hair in an Afro. The cover shows them bumping fists as a flag burns in a fireplace behind them and a portrait of Osama bin Laden hangs above the mantel.
The magazine has said satire it uses satire "to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that's the spirit of this cover."
New Yorker editor David Remnick told the Huffington Post Web site that the cover was chosen because it had something to say.
In comments after his speech, Paterson said that no matter what reason the magazine gives for the cover, it was hurtful.
"The reality is that it hurts people, they knew it would hurt people; it was designed to do that and also to feed the prurient interest of bigoted, prejudiced people in this society," Paterson said.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Citibank ATM breach reveals PIN security problems
Citibank ATM breach reveals PIN security problems
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday, July 1st 2008, 1:56 PM
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores this year and stole customers' PIN codes, according to recent court filings that revealed a disturbing security hole in the most sensitive part of a banking record.
The scam netted the alleged identity thieves millions of dollars. But more importantly for consumers, it indicates criminals were able to access PINs — the numeric passwords that theoretically are among the most closely guarded elements of banking transactions — by attacking the back-end computers responsible for approving the cash withdrawals.
The case against three people in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York highlights a significant problem.
Hackers are targeting the ATM system's infrastructure, which is increasingly built on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and allows machines to be remotely diagnosed and repaired over the Internet. And despite industry standards that call for protecting PINs with strong encryption - which means encoding them to cloak them to outsiders - some ATM operators apparently aren't properly doing that. The PINs seem to be leaking while in transit between the automated teller machines and the computers that process the transactions.
"PINs were supposed be sacrosanct - what this shows is that PINs aren't always encrypted like they're supposed to be," said Avivah Litan, a security analyst with the Gartner research firm. "The banks need much better fraud detection systems and much better authentication."
It's unclear how many Citibank customers were affected by the breach, which extended at least from October 2007 to March of this year. The bank has nearly 5,700 Citibank-branded ATMs inside 7-Eleven Inc. stores throughout the U.S., but it doesn't own or operate any of them.
That responsibility falls on two companies: Houston-based Cardtronic., which owns all the machines but only operates some, and Brookfiel.-based Fiserv Inc., which operates the others.
A critical issue in the investigation is how the hackers infiltrated the system, a question that still hasn't been answered publicly.
All that's known is they broke into the ATM network through a server at a third-party processor, which means they probably didn't have to touch the ATMs at all to pull off the heist.
They could have gained administrative access to the machines — which means they had carte blanche to grab information — through a flaw in the network or by figuring out those computers' passwords. Or it's possible they installed a piece of malicious software on a banking server to capture unencrypted PINs as they passed through. --------nydailynews
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday, July 1st 2008, 1:56 PM
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores this year and stole customers' PIN codes, according to recent court filings that revealed a disturbing security hole in the most sensitive part of a banking record.
The scam netted the alleged identity thieves millions of dollars. But more importantly for consumers, it indicates criminals were able to access PINs — the numeric passwords that theoretically are among the most closely guarded elements of banking transactions — by attacking the back-end computers responsible for approving the cash withdrawals.
The case against three people in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York highlights a significant problem.
Hackers are targeting the ATM system's infrastructure, which is increasingly built on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and allows machines to be remotely diagnosed and repaired over the Internet. And despite industry standards that call for protecting PINs with strong encryption - which means encoding them to cloak them to outsiders - some ATM operators apparently aren't properly doing that. The PINs seem to be leaking while in transit between the automated teller machines and the computers that process the transactions.
"PINs were supposed be sacrosanct - what this shows is that PINs aren't always encrypted like they're supposed to be," said Avivah Litan, a security analyst with the Gartner research firm. "The banks need much better fraud detection systems and much better authentication."
It's unclear how many Citibank customers were affected by the breach, which extended at least from October 2007 to March of this year. The bank has nearly 5,700 Citibank-branded ATMs inside 7-Eleven Inc. stores throughout the U.S., but it doesn't own or operate any of them.
That responsibility falls on two companies: Houston-based Cardtronic., which owns all the machines but only operates some, and Brookfiel.-based Fiserv Inc., which operates the others.
A critical issue in the investigation is how the hackers infiltrated the system, a question that still hasn't been answered publicly.
All that's known is they broke into the ATM network through a server at a third-party processor, which means they probably didn't have to touch the ATMs at all to pull off the heist.
They could have gained administrative access to the machines — which means they had carte blanche to grab information — through a flaw in the network or by figuring out those computers' passwords. Or it's possible they installed a piece of malicious software on a banking server to capture unencrypted PINs as they passed through. --------nydailynews
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