Sounds
like the plot of “Wargames” doesn't it?
Hackers
Arrested for Cracking US Army Network
Four
members of an international hacking ring were charged with cracking
the networks of the US Army and developers of blockbuster war video
games to steal software, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Two
of the men entered guilty pleas in the case, which centers on
the"cyber theft" of at
least $100 million worth of software and data, according
to the Justice Department.
The
hackers are accused of breaking into programs used for the Army's
Apache helicopter pilot training, Microsoft's Xbox One consoles, and
yet-to-be released video games "Gears of War 3" and "Call
of Duty: Modern Warfare 3."
Not
the best advertisement for UPS.
Terrence
T. McDonald reports:
More than two months after a compact disc containing personal
data of Jersey City Medical Center-Barnabas Health patients went
missing, hospital officials say the disc was found and no data was
compromised. The CD, which was sent to an outside firm that reviews
medical billing data back in June, was delivered earlier this month
by UPS, JCMC spokesman Mark Rabson told The Jersey Journal.
The package was “still sealed in its original packaging,” Rabson
said.
Read
more on NJ.com
[From
the Article:
A
Barnabas Health spokesman said JCMC has implemented policies intended
"to minimize the chance of other such incidents." [How
could their policies improve UPS delivery? Bob]
Sex?
There's an App for that! No doubt every high school male will have
this App on his phone. I can already see the potential for
phishing...
NY
Daily News reports:
Want to make sure you and your partner are on the same page before
you hook up? There’s an app for that.
Good2Go, which
launched on Wednesday, is designed to get two parties to explicitly
agree to sexual activity and log
their level of intoxication with the hope of combating
sexual assault, particularly on college campuses.
“Good2Go should be treated in the same manner as putting on a
condom,” its website explains. “It may stop the action for a
second, but everyone understands it is in the interest of safety, so
it is worth the momentary pause.”
Read
more on NY
Daily News.
I
wonder why? (This is not what I would have guessed.)
Do
Academically Marginal Students Benefit from College? The Data Says
Yes.
A
study of Florida high-schoolers whose grades were just good enough
for admission to a public university shows that higher education
provided significant financial benefits for these students: 8 to 14
years after high school, their earnings were 22% higher
than those of peers who hadn’t gone to college, with male students
showing the largest gains, says Seth D. Zimmerman of Yale. These
benefits outstrip the costs of college attendance, he says.
For
the next time I teach Statistics.
Xbox
Polling and the Future of Election Prediction
For
my students.
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