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DEVELOPING: MasterCard is reportedly investigating a possible breach of cardholder account data involving a U.S.-based payment processor, the company said Friday. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Purchase, N.Y., credit-card company said law enforcement has been notified of the matter and an "independent data security organization" is conducting an ongoing forensic review. The company is alerting card-issuing banks regarding "certain MasterCard accounts that are potentially at risk." "MasterCard's own systems have not been compromised in any manner," a company spokesman told the newspaper. The spokesman declined to say how many cards may have been compromised or how many banks...

<p>GILBOA, N.Y. (AP) - Residents of Schoharie County downstream of the Blenheim-Gilboa Dam are being advised to move to higher ground because of the potential for flooding along the Schoharie Creek.</p> <p>The New York City Department of Environmental Protection, which owns the dam as part of its upstate water supply, says warning sirens were triggered Sunday afternoon by rising water due to higher-than-predicted rainfall and the loss of electronic monitoring devices at the dam.</p>

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – CBS News has confirmed that authorities are looking into a shocking security breach that took place at John F. Kennedy International Airport last week. WCBS 880′s Pat Farnack With Former NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker Investigators say Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, a Nigerian, boarded Virgin America Flight 415 to Los Angeles without a valid passport or identification, using an expired boarding pass for a flight the day before that belonged to someone else. 1010 WINS’ Carol D’Auria reports: Passengers Say Security Agents Fell Down On The Job Officials say Noibi got through security and was able to board...

Palestinian youths on Friday hurled stones at Israeli security forces near the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem and tried to breach a barrier to gain entry to the area, which has been sealed off amid concerns over violence. Police Commissioner Dudi Cohen on Friday discussed the increased police presence in the area saying, "The deployment of police and extra security forces in Jerusalem at this hour is in line with the situation." Police forces managed to prevent the youths from breaching the Ras el-Amoud checkpoint near East Jerusalem, and one Palestinian was arrested after he assaulted a police officer.

ROMULUS, Mich. – A portion of a terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Airport was evacuated Monday after a man walked through a passenger screening checkpoint and refused to obey security officers, officials said. The passenger failed to stop about 7:45 a.m. at the McNamara Terminal, the Transportation Security Administration said. The man was arrested by airport police and was being questioned, airport spokesman Mike Conway said. "The Transportation Security Administration asked him to stop and he didn't comply," Conway said. TSA workers activated an alarm and called police. Security doors were lowered at the portion of the terminal between the security...

The Department of Homeland Security has initiated unspecified personnel actions against individuals involved in the bungled online posting this spring of a government document that revealed airport screening secrets, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told senators Wednesday morning. A contract employee was responsible for failing to properly redact a 93-page Transportation Security Administration operating manual onto a government procurement Web site, allowing computer users to recover blacked-out information by copying and pasting them into other documents, Napolitano said. TSA supervisors were also involved, Napolitano said. "The security of the traveling public has never been put at risk," Napolitano assured the...

In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) inadvertently posted online its entire airport screening procedures manual, including some of the most closely guarded secrets regarding special rules for diplomats and CIA and law enforcement officers. Photo: Massive TSA Security Breach As Agency Gives Away Its Secrets: On-line Posting Reveals a ?How To? for Terrorists to Get Through Airport Security In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) inadvertently posted online... Expand In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) inadvertently posted online its entire airport screening procedures manual, including some of the most...

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 03, 2009 No Accident If you believe the so-called "experts," the recent, on-line publication of a detailed report on U.S. nuclear facilities was nothing more than an "accident." How can we be so sure? Government policy mandates the creation, editing and publication of classified reports on systems cleared for that type of information. Typically, a "confidential" report would be produced on a SECRET-level system, and published on an intranet cleared for that level of data. In the Department of Defense, the intranet for SECRET information is called SIPRNET. Other government agencies also have access to SIPRNET, or utilize...

WASHINGTON - Detailed plans for the new U.S. Embassy under construction in Baghdad appeared online Thursday in a breach of the tight security surrounding the sensitive project. Computer-generated projections of the soon-to-be completed, heavily fortified compound were posted on the Web site of the Kansas City, Mo.-based architectural firm that was contracted to design the massive facility in the Iraqi capital. The images were removed by Berger Devine Yaeger Inc. shortly after the company was contacted by the State Department. "We work very hard to ensure the safety and security of our employees overseas," said Gonzalo Gallegos, a department spokesman....

"Second Life," the fast-growing online site where hundreds of thousands of people play out fantasy lives online, has suffered a computer security breach that exposed the real-world personal data of its users. Linden Lab, the San Francisco-based company behind the "Second Life" site, said in a letter to its 650,000 users this weekend that its customer database, including names, addresses, passwords and some credit card data, had been compromised. All users--or residents in "Second Life" parlance--are being required to request a new password. Some 286,000 residents have used the site in the past 60 days, according to a count on...

When the history of personal privacy is written--and there are persons who monitor this sort of thing--they will call this "The Year of the Stolen Laptop." The number of incidents has been astounding, topped by the theft of a laptop computer last May from the residence of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs staff person; the computer contained millions of names, birth dates and Social Security numbers. Law enforcement officers actually recovered the stolen laptop and arrested two suspects, and they have found no evidence that the data inside was used to compromise anybody's privacy. But up to 26 million...

AT&T on Tuesday said hackers broke into one of its computer systems and accessed personal data on thousands of customers who used its online store. The information that was illegally accessed includes credit card numbers, AT&T said in a statement. The cyberattack affects about 19,000 customers who purchased equipment for high-speed DSL Internet connections through AT&T's Web site, the company said. "We deeply regret this incident," Priscilla Hill-Ardoin, chief privacy officer for AT&T, said in the statement. "We will work closely with law enforcement to bring these data thieves to account." The break-in occurred over the weekend and was discovered...

A SENIOR adviser to Police Commissioner Mal Hyde knew two years ago police were breaking strict laws controlling the State's DNA database but did not suspend its operation, court documents have revealed. Transcripts of closed hearings held earlier this year during the prosecution of a suspected armed robber show hundreds of DNA samples instead were sent to a special police taskforce, Operation Helix, which used DNA to arrest more than 150 people over 1100 unsolved crimes. Among police documents suppressed during the hearings were reports prepared for Assistant Commissioner of Crime Madeleine Glynn. The criminal barrister who obtained the documents...

The US state of Georgia has allowed a remote attacker to access a database containing the details of 570,000 members of the state’s pension scheme. The cause of the breach has been blamed on an unpatched flaw in one of the state’s security programs, although the supplier of the software has not been disclosed. The attacker is said to have breached the system towards the end of February, using a variety of hacking tools to access the server hosting the database. Georgia said it was in the process of fixing the security flaw in the system, before the hacker got...

County officials have sent 94,000 letters warning people of possible identity theft after some documents containing their confidential information were publicly exposed in January. The documents were left next to a recycling bin outside a Department of Public Social Services office in Exposition Park.

Quote from Terry Ebbert, New Orleans' homeland security chief, August 31, 2005 to the AP: "It's a very slow rise, and it will remain so until we plug that breach. I think we can get [the breach] stabilized in a few hours"

Data Theft Information On Dec. 31, 2005, tapes and disks containing confidential information of 365,000 patients who have received care from Providence Home Services were reported stolen. Please note: This affects Providence Home Services patients only. Other Providence patients who did not receive care through Home Services are not affected. There is no indication that the stolen information has been used for identity theft. Providence recognizes the significance of the personal information that was stolen. We are deeply sorry this has happened and truly apologize to all those affected. Q&A on breach

NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Rita's wind and rain breached two of New Orleans' battered levees Friday and sent water gushing into already-devastated neighborhoods just days after they had been pumped dry. In the impoverished Ninth Ward, water streamed through gaps at least 100 feet wide in a levee and was soon waist-deep on a nearby street. It began covering buckled homes, piles of rubble and mud-caked cars that Katrina had swamped with up to 20 feet of water nearly a month ago. Officials with the Army Corps of Engineers said other levees appeared secure, including those breached during Katrina, but...

Brace yourselves, capital citizens, for yet another hurricane season! Yes, Louisiana’s annual brush with death is back with a vengeance. Merely two months old, the 2005 season promises to be a force to be reckoned with, having spawned an unprecedented number of name-worthy storms thus far. Things don’t appear to be settling down any time soon, either: As I write this article, “Emily” is assuming the position in the Gulf of Mexico! How can we be on the letter “E” this early in the game? Still, “Arlene” was a bit of a let down, “Bret” proved unremarkable, “Cindy” was a...

Mayor: Major Breach Flooding and Destroying New Orleans National Author: Steve Sabludowsky | 8/30/2005 Home : Business The City of New Orleans Is Devastated. Those were the words of Mayor C. Ray Nagin and based upon a major breach of a levee system, water is flowing into New Orleans flooding it beyond recognition and could very well destroy New Orleans, Jefferson and the surrounding areas. In a most frightening interview with WWL TV, Mayor C. Ray Nagin gave the worse-case scenario of events that anyone could possibly imagine. In the beginning of the interview, he stated that New Orleans is...

Just broke on CNN about five minutes ago. Rick Sanchez was interviewing the VP of Tulane University Hospital, which is located in downtown New Orleans. She said the water is rising around the hospital at a rate of about one inch per minute. She said if it continues at that rate, she will have to call FEMA to ask them to bring in helicopters to evacuate the hospital. She said there are about 1000 patients in the hospital, and that it has a helipad on the roof. It would be the only way to get everyone out. Hospital officials have...

In their rush to collect cash from taxpayers, school districts around the state have been using Proposition 39 to ram through bonds with an easily attainable 55% vote. While replacing the traditional two-thirds vote for bonds that are repaid exclusively by property owners, Prop. 39 also compelled the districts to establish a citizen oversight committee to monitor spending of bond proceeds. Unfortunately, the bond committees were added to the package as a public relations ploy designed to make bond passage easier, while giving the oversight committees no real power. Now that Prop. 39 has been in effect for nearly five...

'Greatest protest' in Jewish state's history aims to stop Sharon's planned Gaza evacuation NATIVOT, Israel – In what is being billed the "greatest protest in Israeli history," tens of thousands tonight made it to an overnight rest stop on their way to Gaza after breaching a barrier of thousands of security forces and running across thorny fields. The protest aims to halt next month's evacuation of Jewish communities from Gaza and parts of the West Bank. Earlier this evening, tens of thousands streamed into Nativot, a town about 20 miles south of Gaza, holding a massive rally that completely filled...

Two weeks ago, Judge George Greer's pastor asked him to 'reconsider' his membership at Calvary Baptist Church, one of Clearwater's largest and best known Southern Baptist southern congregations.Greer severed ties with the theologically conservative congregation within days of the request. Calvary said it did not technically ask Judge Greer to leave. The truth, Calvary says is that Greer was the first one to walk away and had not attended the church in years.The membership question was merely an attempt to make it official. Long before the current pastor, Greer had problems with members of the Southern Baptist denomination.The Florida Baptist...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

A young San Bernardino couple is going public with questions about supermodel Gisele Bundchen's "no questions asked" $5000.00 reward offer, which remains unpaid more than two weeks after the couple returned Bundchen's dog only to be arrested at gunpoint, handcuffed and held in custody. Although cleared by the police, the couple has no explanation from Bundchen of why they were treated like criminals and denied the reward. Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) December 10, 2004 -- Supermodel Gisele Bundchen’s “no questions asked” $5000.00 reward offer for her lost dog just before Thanksgiving, may have gotten her dog back, but, according to the...

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Link post: go the thread below to post commentary for discussion -- thanks! Geology Picture of the Week, August 29-September 4, 2004: New Geology courtesy of Hurricane Charley

This is already old news, but it's a reminder of what's coming... (I downsized the image so it would fit on a "regular-sized" browser window. Click on the image to see the full-size version, which can be further expanded in most browsers by clicking right on the image.)

The Candidate With No Name By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 29, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms ”Defeat Bush – VOTE In 2004!” I’ve seen more bumper-stickers with this platitude than I’ve seen ones that simply state, “Kerry/Edwards 2004.” While my liberal friends rarely mention Kerry and Edwards, they constantly remind me of how much they hate President Bush. This year, the politics of hate rule. The Left doesn’t even have a candidate. They are galvanized mainly by visceral hatred -- a hatred which stands on shaky assumptions, like the lies that Michael Moore sells as truths. In Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore insinuates that...

Planes that breach D-Day air space 'will be shot down' By Ben Fenton in Arromanches (Filed: 31/05/2004) Private pilots who stray into Normandy air space during the 60th anniversary of D-Day next weekend will be shot down, French officials said yesterday. With at least 16 heads of state, including the Queen and President George W Bush, attending the ceremonies, organisers are guarding particularly against an al-Qa'eda attack from the air. French troops near the town of Arromanches It is one of the biggest security exercises in Europe since the war. An enormous network of radar equipment has been stretched between...

N Korea fury over nuclear 'breach' By Charles Scanlon BBC correspondent in Seoul North Korea has accused the United States of deliberately breaching a nuclear agreement between them - and says it wants compensation. North Korea is angry that the US has pulled out of the power project An American-backed international consortium last week suspended work on power projects for the North, which were designed to replace its nuclear weapons programme. The decision in effect suspended the nuclear accord of 1994. At the time, the US agreed to back the construction of two nuclear power stations for the North if...

US: Iran is in breach of nuclear obligations September 09 2003 at 01:21PM Vienna - The United States said on Tuesday that Iran had clearly violated its United Nations nuclear safeguards obligations, but has agreed to give Tehran one last chance to come clean about the full extent of its nuclear programme. "The United States believes that the facts... would fully justify an immediate finding of non-compliance by Iran," US Ambassador to the UN in Vienna, Kenneth Brill, said in a written text of a speech to the UN nuclear watchdog's governing board. Brill was referring to Iran's UN Safeguards...

The European Commission has warned Germany that it could face the imposition of radical restrictions on its domestic fiscal policymaking as early as next year if it looks set to exceed the stability pact's deficit limit in 2004. "If Germany breaches the stability pact's 3 per cent ceiling next year, we will present [the] ecofin [group of ministers] with a new recommendation. It is our duty," said Pedro Solbes, the European Unions's monetary affairs commissioner in an interview with FT Deutschland. Mr Solbes' warning puts greater pressure on the German government to bring its fiscal system under control. Mr Solbes...

Shuttle Investigators Zero in on Breach HOUSTON - Columbia accident investigators said Tuesday they are close to zeroing in on where a hole opened up in the spaceship's left wing and strongly suspect the fatal blow was caused by a chunk of flyaway foam at liftoff. AP Photo Space Shuttle Columbia Special Coverage   "I feel that we're probably within 30 inches of where the actual breach occurred," said Roger Tetrault, a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. "We're closing in." A fragment of a panel or seal along the vulnerable leading edge of Columbia's left wing is...

The full text of resolution 1441 (2002) reads, as follows: “The Security Council, “Recalling all its previous relevant resolutions, in particular its resolutions 661 (1990) of 6 August 1990, 678 (1990) of 29 November 1990, 686 (1991) of 2 March 1991, 687 (1991) of 3 April 1991, 688 (1991) of 5 April 1991, 707 (1991) of 15 August 1991, 715 (1991) of 11 October 1991, 986 (1995) of 14 April 1995, and 1284 (1999) of 17 December 1999, and all the relevant statements of its President, “Recalling also its resolution 1382 (2001) of 29 November 2001 and its intention to...

The Breach : Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton...), $2.95 I ordered this used from Amazon. Haven't read it yet, but it came in like-new condition. Written by Peter Baker, Washington Post reporter for 12 yrs. I've heard good and bad of this book. What have you heard. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0425172457/qid=1042505864/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/102-3768906-3284152

<p>Transportation Security Administration employee Stacie Sidhu , helps a passenger get to his flight as she deals with congestion in terminal A.</p> <p>A lost man wandered past security screeners through an exit and into a boarding area at San Jose airport Sunday, forcing officials to evacuate nearly 2,000 passengers from Terminal A and delaying flights on one of the busiest travel days of the year.</p>

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush is likely this week to declare Iraq in "material breach" of a U.N. Security Council resolution on disarmament, but is not expected to cite it as an immediate case for war, U.S. officials said early on Wednesday. Bush's national security advisers are to meet on Wednesday to discuss the situation after concluding that Iraq's declaration of its weapons of mass destruction required by the resolution falls short of the U.N. demand that it list all of its weapons, a senior administration official said. "The president at some point has to decide on material breach," one...

— BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces fired on U.S. and British warplanes patrolling "no-fly" zones in northern and southern Iraq Tuesday, an Iraqi military spokesman said. There was no immediate comment from Washington or London. The incidents happened as U.N. arms inspectors prepared to begin their first searches in four years Wednesday for illicit nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. The United States has said that Iraqi fire on its jets over the "no fly" zones may constitute a breach of this month's U.N. resolution 1441, under which Iraq must cooperate with the inspections or face the threat of war. Other...