• ZTE confirms security hole in US phone May 18, 2012
  ZTE Corp, the world's No.4 handset vendor and one of two Chinese companies under U.S. scrutiny over security concerns, said one of its mobile phone models sold in the United States contains a vulnerability that researchers say could allow others to control the device.
• Is it illegal to record and post noisy neighbors having sex? May 18, 2012
  A Reddit user who shared a friend's solution for noisy neighbors having sex attracted almost 2,000 comments. To teach the loud lovers a lesson, the friend recorded the cries of passion, uploaded the recording to the Internet, then wrote a note telling them exactly what happened.
• Anonymous attacks Indian government websites May 18, 2012
  After ordering Internet service providers to block several top video-sharing sites, several Indian government websites were hit with denial-of-service attacks by Anonymous.
• We may not trust Facebook, but we don't quit it either, shows poll May 16, 2012
  We've long known more than a few Facebook users don't trust the social network to keep their personal information private. A new poll shows that many who don't trust Facebook stay anyway.
• Banking Trojan poses as Google Chrome installer May 17, 2012
  Online financial fraudsters are hiding their latest bank-account-stealing weapon inside what appears to be a legitimate Google Chrome installer.
• Drunken hacker jailed for selling gamers' info May 17, 2012
  A 20-year-old British man will spend the next 18 months behind bars for stealing "Call of Duty" gamers' credit card numbers and other confidential data and selling it to other cybercriminals.
• 5 ways criminals use Facebook May 17, 2012
  To be sure, cyber crimes have been occurring for some time, but the presence of social media has made many crimes much easier to commit. Here are some of the ways criminals use Facebook.
• Apple QuickTime update fixes 17 security glitches May 16, 2012
  Apple has released an update to its popular QuickTime software that fixes several security vulnerabilities in the media player and its plug-ins, and keeps Windows-based PCs safe from targeted attacks.
• Google fixes 18 Chrome glitches, enables tab syncing May 16, 2012
  Google released the newest version of its popular Chrome Web browser Tuesday, fixing 18 security glitches and adding a convenient new feature for its customers.
• Apple issues security updates for Leopard users May 16, 2012
  Apple has thrown a bone to Mac owners left unprotected against the Flashback malware family — but only some of those users will be getting help.  On Monday, Apple quietly released two security updates for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, a nearly five-year-old release that Apple had otherwise abandoned. (Apple generally supports only the two most recent OS X releases.)
• 'Mobile Spy' app may be open to, yep, spying May 16, 2012
  The irony is too significant to ignore: A smartphone app that enables customers to spy on others' phones may itself be vulnerable to attackers looking to spy on them.
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• Bill criminalizing viewing child porn online OK'd by NY Senate May 15, 2012
  The New York State Senate on Tuesday passed legislation to make it a crime to view child pornography on the Internet, as lawmakers rushed to close a loophole opened by a state appeals court just a week earlier.
• Wikipedia ads mean you've got malware May 15, 2012
  If you see an advertisement on Wikipedia, there's a good chance you have malware on your computer.
• Anonymous hacking suspect pleads not guilty May 14, 2012
  A Chicago man has pleaded not guilty to computer hacking charges stemming from an investigation aimed at taking out key players in the worldwide group Anonymous.
• US firms' online poker partners have checkered pasts May 14, 2012
  To prime itself for the U.S. debut of legal online poker, MGM Resorts International wanted a partner that knew the ropes.  So last October it hooked up with Bwin, a company that paid the U.S. government $105 million after admitting it had run an illegal gambling operation.

• 4 ways Facebook will change May 17, 2012
  Get ready for the Facebook feeding frenzy. On Thursday afternoon, the company priced its initial public offering at $38 a share, giving it a market value of $104 billion. The stock begins trading Friday on the Nasdaq.
• U.S., France search for Afghan compromise May 18, 2012
  Visiting French President François Hollande told President Barack Obama on Friday that France's combat troops would leave Afghanistan by year's end and pledged to find a way "for our allies to pursue their mission" in talks at a looming NATO summit. The two leaders also bonded [...]
• Witnesses paint graphic picture of fight May 18, 2012
  But Nobody Saw How the Deadly Altercation Began.
• Wake for Mary Kennedy held amid apparent rift May 19, 2012
  The two sides of Mary Richardson Kennedy's grieving family faced off in court Friday over custody of her body, just hours before she was mourned at a wake at the estate where she committed suicide.
• Iran, Syria among top issues for G-8 and NATO May 19, 2012
  President Barack Obama and leaders of other major industrial powers grappled Friday with options to solidify world resolve against development of an Iranian nuclear bomb and encourage a more forceful response to worsening violence in Syria.
• Driver who was hero in '76 Calif. bus kidnap dies May 19, 2012
  The nation called Ed Ray a hero when he led a terrified group of children to safety after they were kidnapped aboard their school bus and held underground for ransom in the summer of 1976.
• Neighbors: Highway shooting suspect a regular guy May 18, 2012
  To hear his neighbors tell it, James Willie was just a regular guy who sometimes played with the neighborhood kids. Police describe him as a cold-blooded killer who stalked his victims on dark stretches of Mississippi's highways and shot two of them dead.
• Boehner: All options on table in gun-running probe May 19, 2012
  House Speaker John Boehner says "all options are on the table" in the ongoing congressional investigation into the "Fast and Furious" operation and whether the House would move to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt should he refuse to fully comply.
• Georgia woman learns toll of flesh-eating bacteria May 19, 2012
  Faced with the prospect of losing both hands and her one remaining foot, a young Georgia woman battling to survive a case of flesh-eating bacteria that has already claimed one leg mouthed the words "Let's do this."
• SpaceX test flight to space station seen as milestone May 18, 2012
  An Obama administration plan to cut the cost of space flights faces a key test on Saturday when a privately owned rocket lifts off for a practice run aimed at the first private docking at the International Space Station. Space Exploration Technologies' Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule are scheduled for launch at 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Meteorologists expect good conditions for a launch, but if weather or technical problems force a delay, Falcon 9's next opportunity to fly would be on Tuesday. ...
• Obama holds 2-to-1 cash advantage over Romney May 19, 2012
  President Barack Obama holds a cash advantage of more than 2-to-1 over Republican challenger Mitt Romney but the president's money advantage is beginning to dwindle.
• L.A. police: 2 arrests in Chinese student killings May 19, 2012
  Two young men have were arrested Friday in the killings of two Chinese graduate students who were shot to death near the University of Southern California campus last month, police said.
• Soldier faces murder charges in Iraq base deaths May 19, 2012
  Murder charges have been filed against a sergeant accused of killing four other soldiers and a Navy officer in May 2009 at a mental health clinic in Iraq, the Army said Friday.
• Stabbed Ohio woman hits child with car, both dead May 19, 2012
  A woman allegedly stabbed by her best friend during an argument while sitting behind the wheel of a car tried to drive away and struck her attacker's 2-year-old daughter, authorities said Friday. The woman and the toddler both died.
• Bride's suspected killer may have fled to U.S.-Mexican border May 19, 2012
  MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) - A man suspected of killing his newlywed bride near Chicago and leaving her in a bathtub in the same silver sequin cocktail dress she wore to her wedding reception may have fled to the U.S.-Mexican border in Texas, an FBI affidavit showed. Arnoldo Jimenez, 30, has been on the run since a relative found his wife, Estrella Carrera, stabbed to death in a bathtub on Sunday, two days after the wedding, police in Burbank, Illinois, said in a statement. The relative found Carrera, 25, after she failed to pick up her two young children, ages 2 and 8, on Saturday. ...
• Feds say Colorado wildfire started on camp stove May 19, 2012
  Warm, dry weather hindered hundreds of firefighters battling a blaze in northern Colorado that federal officials say started with a camp stove.
• Arizona towns at risk as wildfires hit U.S. Southwest May 19, 2012
  PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona wildfire threatened two more towns on Friday, with high winds on the way, even as firefighters made progress against the largest of a string of blazes spreading across the U.S. Southwest. More than 1,000 firefighters in Arizona and Colorado were battling five major blazes that have consumed more than 55 square miles (142 square km) of ponderosa forest, brush and grass, and a new blaze erupted in Utah on Thursday. ...
• Police nab airline pilot with loaded gun in luggage May 19, 2012
  BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) - An airline pilot was arrested Friday morning at Buffalo Niagara International Airport after security screeners discovered a loaded revolver in his baggage. Brett Dieter, 52, of Barbersville, Virginia, arrived at the upstate New York airport Friday to pilot a flight to New York City's LaGuardia International Airport for Piedmont Airlines, a passenger airline that subcontracts under U.S. Airways. While at a security checkpoint, a scan of Dieter's bag revealed a .357 magnum revolver loaded with five rounds. ...
• Ultra-Orthodox Jews plan huge NYC meeting on Internet risks May 19, 2012
  Ultra-Orthodox Jews who believe that the Internet threatens their way of life have rented the New York Mets' stadium for an unprecedented gathering on how to use modern technology in a religiously appropriate way.
• Man with record-breaking 14-foot mustache has some grooming tips May 18, 2012
  Ram Singh Chauhan of India has the world's longest mustache, 14 feet, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Chauhan had received attention long before entering the world record books. According to the London Telegraph, his famous facial hair was featured in the 1983 James Bond film "Octopussy" and he has made cameos in [...]

• Panetta seeks $70M for Israel's 'Iron Dome' shield May 18, 2012
  WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon will seek to provide Israel with an additional $70 million in the coming months for its short-range rocket shield, known as the "Iron Dome," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said after a meeting with his Israeli counterpart on Thursday.
• 'Covert' US drone operation is mapped on Twitter May 18, 2012
  Though the hour was late, Yemen’s social media was still very much awake. A U.S. drone's missiles had just slammed into a convoy of vehicles in a remote part of Yemen, killing three alleged militants.
• Mysterious object nearly downed plane over Denver May 18, 2012
  The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a mysterious flying object that nearly caused a mid-air collision Monday evening over Denver, according to NBC affiliate KUSA.com.
• US Navy ships collide after 'steering malfunction' May 17, 2012
  An 844-foot-long U.S. Navy assault ship collided with a refueling tanker Wednesday about 120 miles off the coast of California in the Pacific Ocean.
• 'No more ships like this': USS Iowa finds home in LA May 18, 2012
  The USS Iowa, which ferried the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the Atlantic to a historic meeting with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin, is to become a floating museum.
• A message to Assad? War games held near border May 17, 2012
  A military exercise involving more than 11,000 troops from 19 countries is under way in Jordan, reportedly just miles from Syria's border.
• TSA aims to screen all cargo on US-bound flights May 17, 2012
  Nearly five years after the 9/11 Commission Act recommended that 100 percent of cargo aboard passenger planes be screened, The Transportation Security Administration has announced a deadline to meet the requirement.
• Pentagon unveils model of bin Laden compound May 17, 2012
  This image released by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency shows a scale model of the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden was killed.
• US has 55 daily encounters with 'suspected terrorists' May 16, 2012
  Law enforcement and homeland security personnel face an average of 55 daily encounters with "known or suspected terrorists" named on government watch lists, officials told Reuters.
• Terror case: Family wins $323 million from Iran, Syria May 16, 2012
  A Weston, Fla., family has won a court judgment against Iran and Syria, six years after their son was killed by a suicide bomber in Tel Aviv.
• F-22 flights restricted after pilot oxygen problems May 15, 2012
  Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has ordered the Air Force to restrict flights of its new F-22 stealth fighters because of continuing problems with the aircraft's oxygen system.
• Henry Kissinger gets a TSA pat-down May 15, 2012
  Geraldo Rivera, Sen. Diane Feinstein and now Henry Kissinger — apparently, when TSA decides you need a pat-down, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a ubiquitous TV host, a sitting U.S. senator or a one-time titan of foreign policy.
• Report shows 'gaping hole' in airport security May 14, 2012
  TSA does a poor job of centrally tracking security breaches at airports, according to a report released by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General, which performs agency audits.
• Rep. King: No need to meet with Colombian prostitute May 13, 2012
  The chairman of a House panel looking into allegations of misconduct by U.S. Secret Service agents last month in Colombia says he sees no need to meet with one of the prostitutes at the center of the scandal.
• Al-Jazeera: Second anti-Islam military course surfaces May 12, 2012
  Report comes as Pentagon reviews all military classes after the disclosure of one that advocated "total war" against Muslims.

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