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  • NY retailers lost $4.4 billion due to organized shoplifting rings in 2022: group

    11/26/2023 3:55:33 PM PST · by george76 · 40 replies
    New York Post ^ | Nov. 26, 2023 | Ariel Zilber
    Retailers across New York state say there’s no end in sight to the rising epidemic of organized shoplifting rings — and warn it could lead to more store closures, increased costs for consumers and threats of violence against store employees. Store owners said they lost $4.4 billion last year as a result of retail theft — which they say adds to the urgency for Gov. Kathy Hochul to crack down. However, Hochul vetoed a bipartisan bill last week — to the chagrin of store owners — that would have created a task force to combat organized theft. ... The Retail...
  • Organized shoplifting is a $100-billion problem. Here's why we're all screwed

    09/23/2023 8:04:49 AM PDT · by dennisw · 53 replies
    MSN ^ | 9-16 | Opinion by Charles "Cully" Stimson, Zack Smith
    • Corporate America is finally waking up to the fact that woke policies on crime are costing them billions. Organized shoplifting efforts and flash mobs of robberies across the country caused businesses $100 billion in losses in 2021 and have only gotten worse since then according to the National Retail Federation. As former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli recently put it, Biden’s America has become a "lawless society." And a lawless society is bad for business. Big companies, from Whole Foods, Walmart and Walgreens to Nordstrom, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Lululemon and more have all suffered. Mom-and-pop businesses have suffered too....
  • FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR UNION CITY... (Tennessee)

    08/04/2023 5:02:58 AM PDT · by Paul R. · 4 replies
    National Weather Service Memphis TN ^ | 8/4/2023 | National Weather Service Memphis TN
    FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING FOR CENTRAL OBION AND WEST CENTRAL WEAKLEY COUNTIES... At 626 AM CDT, Trained weather spotters reported thunderstorms producing heavy rain in Green Acres Mobile Home Park where evacuations are taking place. Between 9 and 11 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is already occurring. This is a FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY for Union City. This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW!
  • Rare cosmic event beamed light at Earth from 8.5 billion light-years away

    11/30/2022 11:15:24 PM PST · by blueplum · 11 replies
    CNN ^ | 30 Nov 2022 | By Ashley Strickland,
    An incredibly bright flash that appeared in the night sky in February was the result of a star straying too close to a supermassive black hole, meeting its untimely end there as it was ripped to shreds. But the rare cosmic event actually occurred 8.5 billion light years away from Earth, when the universe was just a third of its current age — and it has created more questions than answers....
  • Climate change making ‘flash droughts’ more common: study

    04/13/2023 1:32:47 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 31 replies
    The Hill ^ | 04/13/2023 | ZACK BUDRYK
    Climate change is driving an increase in flash droughts, or intense, rapid-onset periods of dryness, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. Researchers, led by Xing Yuan of China’s Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, analyzed just over six decades of soil moisture data ranging from 1951 to 2014. When restricting the data to droughts of at least 20 days, they found a broad trend toward flash droughts occurring more quickly and frequently.
  • Does anyone make a flash drive with 3D NAND memory

    11/26/2022 4:40:41 PM PST · by Paul R. · 23 replies
    Me | 11/26/2022 | Paul R.
    I'm looking for flash drives (USB 3.1 or 3.2 memory sticks) with 3D NAND memory if such are out there? MLC would be next best. I'm looking more for reliability than speed. Most useful would be a 256 GB stick. A dual drive (USB A and USB C connection on either end) would be best.Recommendations?
  • Biden motorcade reportedly flashed by 'large naked Scottish man'

    11/02/2021 10:02:57 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 57 replies
    The Hill ^ | 11/02/2021 | JUDY KURTZ
    Biden motorcade reportedly flashed by 'large naked Scottish man' © Associated Press/Evan Vucci, Pool President Biden's motorcade wasn't the only spectacle on his trip to Glasgow — a "large naked Scottish man" was reportedly spotted snapping photos of the brouhaha. The X-rated sighting came Tuesday as Biden headed to the United Nations COP26 international climate conference. NPR's White House correspondent, Scott Detrow, revealed the bare details of the eye-popping, au naturel display in a tweet.
  • China Railroad Stops When Adobe Finally Turns off Flash

    01/22/2021 9:49:06 AM PST · by Quality_Not_Quantity · 24 replies
    Apple Daily ^ | 1/17/21 | Hong Kong Apple Daily
    The railroad system in Dalian, northern China, collapsed citywide on Tuesday for up to 20 hours after the Adobe Flash programing software stopped running. Adobe had announced as early as 2017 that it would cease support for the multimedia software on Dec. 30 last year. The American software company eventually ended the operation of all Flash content on Tuesday. Tuesday’s chaos arose after China Railway Shenyang failed to deactivate Flash in time, leading to a complete shutdown of its railroads in Dalian, Liaoning province. Staffers were reportedly unable to view train operation diagrams, formulate train sequencing schedules and arrange shunting...
  • Red-orange flash reported in skies above Clermont County [Ohio]: ‘I thought it was an explosion’

    01/21/2020 9:20:09 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 22 replies
    Fox19Now ^ | 01/13/2020 | Ashley Smith
    Tim Walker and his daughter Carolyn Walker were taking the trash out Sunday evening at their Bethel home when they saw a flash in the sky. You can see on their Ring camera the colors in the sky are red and orange with a little pink and purple too. The father-daughter duo admits it scared them at first. They also say, despite the bright colors and length of the incident, they never heard a sound. So what caused the flash? We contacted Clermont County Emergency Management. They have no explanation but did hear from plenty of people reporting the flash....
  • Christmas Food Court Flash Mob, Hallelujah Chorus - Must See!

    12/24/2019 6:35:14 AM PST · by mkleesma · 22 replies
    Youtube ^ | November 18, 2010 | Alphabet Photography Inc.
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  • Equifax website borked again, this time to redirect to fake Flash update

    10/12/2017 11:00:13 AM PDT · by Leaning Right · 23 replies
    ars technica ^ | 10/12/2017 | DAN GOODIN
    In May credit reporting service Equifax's website was breached by attackers who eventually made off with Social Security numbers, names, and a dizzying amount of other details for some 145.5 million US consumers. For several hours on Wednesday, and again early Thursday morning, the site was maliciously manipulated again, this time to deliver fraudulent Adobe Flash updates, which when clicked, infected visitors' computers with adware that was detected by only three of 65 antivirus providers.
  • Microsoft catches up to Valentine's Day Flash flaw massacre (but ignores Win7, wtf!)

    02/23/2017 10:35:21 AM PST · by dayglored · 35 replies
    The Register ^ | Feb 23, 2017 | Simon Sharwood
    Critical update deals with five ways to do remote code execution on Windows Microsoft's popped out a Security Update for Adobe Flash.Adobe did likewise last week, celebrating hackers' love for Flash by releasing it on Valentine's Day. That dump addressed no fewer than 13 CVEs that allowed code execution due to: Type confusion vulnerability Integer overflow vulnerability Use-after-free vulnerabilities Heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities Memory corruption vulnerabilities Microsoft's now caught up, issuing the Update to fix the mess on Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server 2016.The attack succeeds by poisoning...
  • Mac malware, possibly made in Iran, targets US defense industry (Doesn't work)

    02/07/2017 10:57:59 PM PST · by Swordmaker · 16 replies
    MacDailyNews ^ | Tuesday, February 7, 2017 · 4:50 pm
    “Just because you’re using a Mac doesn’t mean you’re safe from hackers,” Michael Kan reports for IDG News Service. “That’s what two security researchers are warning, after finding a Mac-based malware that may be an attempt by Iranian hackers to target the U.S. defense industry.” “The malware, called MacDownloader, was found on a website impersonating the U.S. aerospace firm United Technologies, according to a report from Claudio Guarnieri and Collin Anderson, who are researching Iranian cyberespionage threats,” Kan reports. “The fake site was previously used in a spear phishing email attack to spread Windows malware and is believed to be...
  • HTML5 Ads Aren't That Safe Compared To Flash, Experts Say

    06/23/2016 10:08:42 PM PDT · by Utilizer · 8 replies
    SOFTPEDIA® ^ | Jun 23, 2016 21:05 GMT | Catalin Cimpanu
    A study from GeoEdge, an ad scanning vendor, reveals that Flash has been wrongly accused as the root cause of today's malvertising campaigns, but in reality, switching to HTML5 ads won't safeguard users from attacks because the vulnerabilities are in the ad platforms and advertising standards themselves. The evidence exists to proclaim Flash as one of today's most vulnerable and insecure software applications. Targeted in cyber-espionage and malvertising campaigns, Flash has gotten a bad reputation, and for a good reason. HTML5 ads are replacing Flash ads in the industry Security researchers have discovered vulnerabilities in Flash almost every month, and...
  • How to Uninstall and Disable Flash in Every Web Browser

    06/18/2016 12:49:57 PM PDT · by Utilizer · 46 replies
    How-To Geek ^ | Published 07/13/15 | Chris Hoffman
    Adobe’s Flash plug-in has a big target painted on it. A recent leak shows there’s another Flash Player 0-day that allows attackers to compromise your computer, and that it’s been for sale for the last four years. Flash is going away, and everyone should uninstall it at some point in the future. Here’s how to get rid of Flash, whether you’re using a browser’s built-in plug-in or a system-wide plug-in on Windows, Mac OS X, Chrome OS, or Linux. Can You Live Without Flash? Flash is much less necessary than it’s ever been. Modern mobile platforms like Android and Apple’s...
  • Kill Flash now. Or patch these 36 vulnerabilities. Your choice

    06/18/2016 10:08:56 AM PDT · by Utilizer · 26 replies
    The Register ^ | 16 Jun 2016 at 18:50 | Shaun Nichols
    Adobe has released an update for Flash that addresses three dozen CVE-listed vulnerabilities. The update includes a fix for the CVE-2016-4171 remote code execution vulnerability that is right now being exploited in the wild to install malware on victims' computers. Adobe is recommending that users running Flash for Windows, macOS, Linux, and ChromeOS update the plugin as quickly as possible, giving the update the "Priority 1" ranking, a designation reserved for flaws that are, according to Adobe, "being targeted, or which have a higher risk of being targeted." Adobe credited security researchers at Cisco Talos, Google Project Zero, FireEye, Microsoft...
  • Rise of Ad-Blocking Software Threatens Online Revenue (NY Times)

    05/30/2016 8:17:17 PM PDT · by dennisw · 77 replies
    NY Times ^ | MAY 30, 2016 | By MARK SCOTT
    Many of the world’s largest Internet companies, like Google and Facebook, rely heavily on advertising to finance their online empires. But that business model is increasingly coming under threat, with one in five smartphone users, or almost 420 million people worldwide, blocking advertising when browsing the web on cellphones. That represents a 90 percent annual increase, according to a new report from PageFair, a start-up that helps to recoup some of this lost advertising revenue, and Priori Data, a company that tracks smartphone applications. The use of ad-blocking software has divided the online world. Supporters say it allows people to...
  • Google's Chrome to block Flash this year - except for 10 top websites

    05/16/2016 10:03:47 AM PDT · by dennisw · 24 replies
    www.zdnet.com ^ | May 16, 2016 | By Liam Tung
    Google will soon close one more door on the Flash plugin in Chrome, requiring users to authorize each and every site where they want Flash to load, rather than running it automatically. Google has detailed a proposal to make HTML5 the default in Chrome over Adobe's Flash Player. If all goes to plan, by the fourth quarter of 2016 Chrome will not be using the Flash plugin for the vast majority of the web, and will only make an exception as the default media player for the world's top 10 sites that still rely on Flash. For the time being,...
  • Mac Users Attacked Again by Fake Adobe Flash Update

    04/12/2016 10:31:56 PM PDT · by Swordmaker · 11 replies
    Intego ^ | April 12th, 2016 | by Graham Cluley
    Mac users are once again being urged to exercise caution when installing updates to Adobe Flash Player, after a fake update was discovered infecting computers.Intego security experts have identified the rogue package installer as a variant of OSX/InstallCore, and have updated Intego VirusBarrier definitions to provide protection.The in-the-wild attack has been spread in the form of a Mac Package installer .pkg file, also known a flat package, and has been signed with a legitimate Developer ID certificate — effectively tricking OS X's built-in Gatekeeper security to believe that the files can be trusted and are not malicious.Curiously, if the Mac Package...
  • Slew of dangerous Adobe Flash flaws patched

    03/11/2016 5:46:01 PM PST · by Utilizer · 31 replies
    iTnews (AUS) ^ | Mar 11 2016 | Juha Saarinen
    Adobe has issued patches for 21 serious flaws in its Flash Player software to address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow attackers to take control of victims' systems. The vulnerabilities affect versions of Flash for Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X and iOS, Linux and Google's ChromeOS operating systems, Adobe said. Of the vulnerabilities, three allow arbitrary code execution through integer overflows, and 11 involve use-after-free flaws. Researchers from Google's Project Zero, HP Enterprise Zero Day Initiative, NSFOCUS, Microsoft, Kaspersky, Tencent and Venustech also discovered a heap underflow vulnerability in Adobe Flash and eight memory corruption bugs - all of which...