Criminals acquired over 500 DigiNotar digital certificates; Mozilla and Google issue 'death sentence'.
The tally of digital certificates stolen from a Dutch company in July has exploded to more than 500, including ones for intelligence services like the CIA, the U.K.'s MI6 and Israel's Mossad, a Mozilla developer said Sunday.
The confirmed count of fraudulently-issued SSL (secure socket layer) certificates now stands at 531, said Gervase Markham, a Mozilla developer who is part of the team that has been working to modify Firefox to blocks all sites signed with the purloined certificates.
Among the affected domains, said Markham, are those for the CIA, MI6, Mossad, Microsoft, Yahoo, Skype, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft's Windows Update service.
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The US economy has been in continuous recession as it combats massive national debt, a housing crisis and the declining strength of the dollar.
The US economy has been in continuous recession as it combats massive national debt, a housing crisis and the declining strength of the dollar.
Any troubles in the world's largest economy cast a long shadow over the markets, and a report Friday that the U.S. economy failed to add any new jobs in August caused European and Asian stock markets to sink sharply Monday.
That jobs figure was far below economists' already tepid expectations for 93,000 new U.S. jobs and renewed concerns that the U.S. recovery is not only slowing but actually unwinding. U.S. hiring figures for June and July were also revised lower, only adding to the gloom.
The full impact of the jobs report will hit U.S. markets on Tuesday, since trading there was closed Monday for the U.S. Labor Day holiday.
The jobs crisis has prompted President Barack Obama to schedule a major speech Thursday night to propose steps to stimulate hiring.
Until then, however, traders coming back from the U.S. holiday weekend will have little to hold onto. The uncertainty has already pushed many to pull out of any risky investments - such as stocks, particularly financial ones, the euro and emerging market currencies - and pile into safe havens: U.S. Treasuries, the dollar, the Japanese yen and gold.
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DHS has misplaced their own bomb used in a live drill at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix.
For the past few days the Department of Homeland Security and other officials have been hunting for live explosives that have "gone missing" from a drill conducted late last week.
The fact that the agency that is supposed to protect Americans from terror is now possibly aiding terrorists by losing track of deadly explosive compounds that could be used or blamed in future events to further control the populace shows just how corrupt and inept most government officials have become.
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More than 400,000 people have taken to the streets of Israel's biggest cities to show their anger about rising house prices and other economic issues.
The demonstration on Saturday 3, 2011, was the largest of months of action.
More than 400,000 people have taken to the streets of Israel's biggest cities to show their anger about rising house prices and other economic issues.
The demonstration on Saturday 3, 2011, was the largest of months of action.
The wind of the "Arab spring" revolution is being felt in the state of Israel.
A "one-million person march" took place Saturday in Tel Aviv with a call for "tzedek hevrati" - meaning social reform.
Like in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, youngsters are spearheading this demand for reform.
LaShanda Smith, one of the student's mothers, is seeking $100,000 from the city for damages both "permanent" and "personal" that she says her son suffered as a result of the incident, which allegedly occurred in 2010 at a school in the south side of the city. Smith's attorney Michael Carin tells the Chicago Tribune that he has attempted to resolve the issue without bringing the battle into the courtroom, but the school Board officials have ignored his attempts at reaching a settlement.
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Lawsuit: Bank of America is being sued by a widow who said she was harrassed by constant phone calls after the death of her husband
Lawsuit: Bank of America is being sued by a widow who said she was harrassed by constant phone calls after the death of her husband
Deborah Crabtree, from Honolulu, Hawaii, is suing the bank after she said she was called by debt collectors as often as every 15 minutes including during the wake for her husband.
According to papers filed in Hawaii, Mrs Crabtree told the bank that she would pay the debt as soon as she received her husband's life insurance pay out, but the bank continued to threaten to foreclose on her home.
The bank told the widow that it was unable to stop the calls until the debt was paid as they were computer generated.
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A Jordanian has been charged with killing his 24-year-old widowed daughter in hospital after she gave birth to twins, a judicial official told AFP
A Jordanian has been charged with killing his 24-year-old widowed daughter in hospital after she gave birth to twins, a judicial official told AFP
"Amman's criminal court prosecutor charged the man with premeditated murder after he confessed to shooting dead his daughter on Saturday," in Deir Alla in the Jordan Valley, the official told AFP.
The official quoted the suspect as saying "I was shocked that she was pregnant. I was enraged and shot her dead because she did something shameful."
The woman has been a widow for four years.
"The man claimed he wanted to check on the condition of his daughter ... then he shot her in the head," said Ahmad Hwarat, head of the hospital where the killing took place.
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Florida wildlife officials said Margaret Webb was walking near her home in Copeland, a small community east of Ft. Myers, on Wednesday when an 8-foot alligator lunged out of a canal. The gator clamped onto Webb's leg and tried to drag her into the water.
Webb, however, was able to hang on long enough for a man driving by to stop and help her. That good Samaritan tried to shoot the alligator but it got away.
Wildlife officials at the time said the leg was "barely attached" after the attack and had to amputated.
Officials at Lee Memorial Hospital said her condition has been upgraded from critical to serious.
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They're among thousands of foreigners caught in a web of suspicion as rebel fighters pursue the remnants of Gadhafi's forces. Gadhafi hired some foreigners as mercenaries, but many others held ordinary jobs in Libya, and the rebels who ousted the Gadhafi regime from most of Tripoli last month often seem to make little effort to tell them apart.
"How can we be snipers?" cook Maksim Shadrov asked angrily at a training center for oil workers in Tripoli where he, his wife and 17 other Ukrainians were being held.
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The incident happened Saturday night as the baby sat in an infant carrier on the floor of a room in the family house. Harris County sheriff's spokesman Thomas Gilliland says the dog, a Labrador mix, began sniffing the child and attacked him before the parents could pull it away.
The child was airlifted to Memorial Hermann Hospital, where he died early Sunday. Animal control officers have taken custody of the dog for quarantine.
