Trailrunner7 writes "It is open season on SCADA software right now. Last week, researchers at ReVuln, an Italian security firm, released a video showing off a number of zero-day vulnerabilities in SCADA applications from manufacturers such as Siemens, GE and Schneider Electric. And now a researcher at Exodus Intelligence says he has discovered more than 20 flaws in SCADA packages from some of the same vendors and other manufacturers, all after just a few hours' work."

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Now that some Republicans have confessed that the real purpose of Florida voter suppression was to disenfranchise voters in order to change the outcome of an election, it's time to arrest and prosecute some of the offenders.

• That's a bit too conservative. The purpose of voter suppression is to steal an election.

Let's see how well their excuses hold up in court with a jury of their peers (the people whose votes they were trying to suppress).

I've had it with the government looking the other way on political crimes. We have a free system that guarantees every citizen a vote. Screwing with the election is a serious crime.

Lemmings became "regionally extinct" five times due to rapid climate change during the last Ice Age, scientists have found.

coondoggie writes "A team of world-wide law enforcement agencies took out 132 domain names today that were illegally selling counterfeit merchandise online. The group, made up of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and law enforcement agencies from Belgium, Denmark, France, Romania, United Kingdom and the European Police Office (Europol), targeted alleged counterfeiters selling everything from professional sports jerseys, DVD sets, and a variety of clothing to jewelry and luxury goods."

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Tis the season of online shopping with more of your shopping online than ever before. As the old saying goes, On the Internet, nobody knows youre a dog (*), how do your users know that they are buying from a safe vendor? In timely news, the US Federal Government shut down 132 fake online shopping sites for selling counterfeit goods. Our own Dr. Johannes wrote this piece in Forbes today with 7 safe steps to stay safe shopping online today:


Stick to Sellers you Know

Dont Trust Customer Reviews Blindly

Be Careful with Phishing

Watch Your Credit Card Statement Carefully

Be a Cautious Seller

Be Careful When and How to Meet a Craigslist Seller

Dont Buy Stolen Property


Read the whole thing for more explicit details and share with your users. Some things for the more technically inclined to be aware of. Many fake online shopping sites come with malware, particularly those that arrive via spam. And, of course, with SEO, blind google searches could land you on a bad site instead of a good one. Is there something we missed? Use the contact form and chime in!

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John Bambenek

bambenek \at\ gmail /dot/ com

Bambenek Consulting

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Muslimska brödraskapet i Egypten skjuter upp den planerade demonstrationen till stöd för president Mursi i morgon i Kairo.

Två unga kvinnor skickade djurinälvor till en polisman och hotade honom till livet flera gånger.

Det var många som upprördes och ringde en restaurang i Borås i dag.