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Pizza Lovers Suffer Data Breach From Hell
By admin on July 28, 2010 | No Comments
netbuzz writes “Some 230,000 New Zealanders have been informed that their personal information has apparently fallen into the hands of hackers who compromised the network of a locally famous food chain, Hell Pizza. The company says it suspects ‘a rogue employee,’ but one security expert says Hell’s ordering portal is ‘about 50 steps of fail.’ Several New Zealand celebrities are among the victims and at least one is taking the matter in stride, musing: (more…)
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Spectators & Marshals Flee From Spectacular TouringCar CrashBy admin on July 20, 2010 | No Comments
A horror crash at Sunday’s Seat Leon SuperCup at Britain’s Brands Hatch racecourse has amazingly resulted in no serious injuries.
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NBA Free Agency 2010: A Fiasco From Beginning to EndBy admin on July 16, 2010 | No Comments
As the NBA free-agent process trudges painfully onward, news that the Nuggets gave noted head case Al Harrington a five-year, $34 million deal hardly comes as a surprise.
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Muralitharan to retire from TestsBy admin on July 6, 2010 | No Comments
Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan will retire from Test cricket after the first Test against India in Galle starting on 18 July.
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The Cultural Branding of Snoop Dogg: From Rapper to IconBy admin on July 1, 2010 | No Comments
On April 4, 1992, a small record label named Solar Records released the soundtrack to ‘Deep Cover’, a crime thriller starring Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum. The album was largely forgettable with the exception of the title song, a vicious, unrelenting back-and-forth hip-hop track between Dr. Dre and his protege, an unknown rapper from…
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Nursing Homes House Old People, Fugitives from JusticeBy admin on June 25, 2010 | No Comments
“The impression that most people have is that nursing homes are nice placeswhere old people are taken care of,” observes one law official. “But in the homes we’re worried about, that’s not the case. There are extraordinarily young patients in some of these facilities, and they’re mixed with geriatricpatients, so you have a volatile mix.”
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Asteroid Probe Begins Return From RendezvousBy admin on June 11, 2010 | No Comments
But is Japan’s Hayabusa capsule carrying any precious asteroid dust?
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A Matter of Trust: 10 Places Google Collects User Data FromBy admin on May 25, 2010 | No Comments
Google has been collecting detailed user data since day one. Why? Essentially, as market research, which is then used to enhance their services. While the improvements that come as a result of Google’s data collection may benefit us all, it does come at a cost.
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5 Life Lessons Learned from Video Game PeripheralsBy admin on May 10, 2010 | No Comments
There have been a LOT of bad video game peripherals in the past. Here is a list of 15 Life Lessons that can be learned from some of the strangest video game peripherals from the past and present.
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Police Seize Computers From Gizmodo EditorBy admin on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
secretcurse writes “California police have served a search warrant and seized computers from Jason Chen, the Gizmodo editor who unveiled the 4th-generation iPhone to the world. Gawker Media’s COO has replied claiming that the warrant was served illegally due to Mr. Chen’s status as a journalist. The plot thickens…”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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