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Researchers Discover Android Mobile Botnet 100k Strong
Beware.. Your Android Phone may be concealing hidden malware as a part of a mobile botnet secretly stealing all your phones stored data and more.
A newly discovered malicious application circulating on third party Android markets in China has created a botnet that contains more than 100,000 compromised devices, researchers report.
Researchers from North Carolina State University and Symantec say the malware, dubbed RootStrap (NC State) installs a known remote access trojan (RAT) named BMaster (Symantec). It is capable of stealing a wide range of information from infected Android devices running versions earlier than 2.3.3 and 3.0, and may be ginning up illicit profits with premium SMS and telephony scams, according to the report from NC State and Symantec.
Malicious… Continue reading
Half Of Americans Call Facebook A Passing Fad
Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new poll. And, in the run-up to the social network’s initial public offering of stock, half of Americans also say the social network’s expected asking price is too high.
The company Mark Zuckerberg created as a Harvard student eight years ago is preparing for what looks to be the biggest Internet IPO ever. Expected later this week, Facebook’s Wall Street debut could value the company at $100 billion, making it worth more than Disney, Ford and Kraft Foods.
That’s testament to the impressive numbers Facebook has posted in its relatively brief history. More than 40 percent of American adults log in to the site, to… Continue reading
Man Spends 60K Trying To Get His Dog Knuckles From Ex-girlfriend
Craig Dershowitz says his ex-girlfriend “dognapped” his puggle named Knuckles and he’ll do anything to get the pooch back — including going into debt and pleading for donations online to further the effort.
According to the “Rescue Knux” website Dershowitz created as a forum for people to donate to the cause, he claims his ex-girlfriend was taking care of Knuckles while he was looking for a new place to live after their breakup. But when he returned for the pooch, the ex — whom he portrays as Cruella Deville in a video on the site — had left New York and was on her way to California, taking Knuckles with her.
But Dershowitz wouldn’t let her get away… Continue reading
Yahoo’s Scott Thompson Reportedly Diagnosed With Thyroid Cancer
This has got to be disastrous news to him.
The thyroid gland is under the thyroid cartilage (Adam’s apple) in the front part of the neck. In most people, the thyroid cannot be seen or felt. It is butterfly shaped, with 2 lobes– the right lobe and the left lobe– joined by a narrow isthmus. If you (or a loved one) are worried about developing thyroid cancer, have just been diagnosed, are going through treatment, or are trying to stay well after treatment, the Detailed Guide can help you find the answers you need. Read MORE HERE.
I do pray for a quick recovery. But with the latest Resume Gate Scandal hope it’s not just an excuse for sympathy.… Continue reading
JPMorgan Chase Takes $2 Billion Dollar Loss On Bad Investment!
Ouch! Didn’t we recently bail them out??
The CEO of JPMorgan Chase, which disclosed a $2 billion loss last week, said he was “dead wrong” when he dismissed concerns about the bank’s trading last month.
CEO Jamie Dimon said he did not know the extent of the problem when he said in April that the concerns were a “tempest in a teapot.” After the bank reported the trading loss, investors shaved almost 10 percent off the bank’s stock price.
“We made a terrible, egregious mistake,” Dimon said in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “There’s almost no excuse for it.”
The $2 billion loss came in the past six weeks. Dimon has said it came from… Continue reading
Fullerton CA Officers To Stand Trial In Kelly Thomas Beating Death
I hope these two get everything that they have coming!
A judge Wednesday ordered Fullerton Officer Manuel Ramos and Cpl. Jay Cicinelli to stand trial on all charges in the death of Kelly Thomas, who died five days after he encountered the officers at a Fullerton Transportation Center in July.
Officer Manuel Ramos is charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the death of Thomas. Cpl. Jay Cicinelli is charged with involuntary manslaughter and excessive force. Ramos faces a potential sentence of 15 years to life if convicted of second-degree murder but only four years if convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Cicinelli faces a maximum sentence of four years in prison.
Judge Walter Schwarm heard from witnesses and viewed surveillance… Continue reading
Security Footage of Homeless Man Beaten To Death By Fullerton Police
The Homeless in America have No Rights as evidenced by this security footage of a Fullerton CA homeless man who was beaten to death by police.
SANTA ANA – Defense attorneys for two Fullerton police officers hammered away at a trauma doctor regarding the cause of death for transient Kelly Thomas, who died in an Orange County hospital five days after a violent encounter with Fullerton police last July.
The preliminary hearing for two officers charged in the schizophrenic man’s death, in its second day, will determine if there is sufficient evidence to put the two officers on trial.
Defense attorneys for Officer Manuel Anthony Ramos and Cpl. Jay Patrick Cicinelli suggested in their questioning of a trauma surgeon at… Continue reading
Pinellas Head Start Managers Waste Tax $$$ At Saftey Harbor Spa
Safety Harbor Resort. Your Tax $$ Being Squandered!
When are Government Agencies going to QUIT Squandering Tax Payers Money??
Largo, Florida. How does a three day training summit at a first-class resort and spa sound to you? Well, that’s where Pinellas Head Start held their summit for the second time… and once again it’s on your dime.
This is an agency that has been under fire before and has been reeling since a highly critical Health Human Services audit came out last May. It appears that the agency and its executive director, Juanita Heinzen, haven’t changed and you are paying for it.
When we last reported on Heinzen, she was walking out of the Pinellas Courthouse after agreeing to a… Continue reading
Dania Suarez Interview With Today Show’s Michelle Kosinski
The Colombian hooker at the center of the Secret Service sex scandal slammed the G-men as “stupid brutes” Monday and confirmed for the first time that she and ex-agent Arthur Huntington had sex.
Dania Suarez told NBC’s “Today” that Huntington and his fellow agents were “very direct” in asking her and her prostitute pals for sex at the Cartagena disco where the scandal erupted last month.
“The way they approached us, it seems obvious that they were used to doing it, because people who do this for the first time are very shy,” Suarez, speaking in Spanish, told NBC’s Michelle Kosinski in an interview from Madrid, where the hooker has been hiding out.
The 24-year-old brunette stunner said the elite… Continue reading
Arthur Huntington Previous St Petetersburg Fla Police Officer
Talk about a Fall From Grace..
From St Pete Traffic Cop to Distinguished Secret Service Agent. Then Disgraced and back to doing maybe private security, or even working at McDonald’s.
Reminds me of an old friends favorite saying. The road to nookie is lined with danger!
ST. PETERSBURG – The prostitution scandal that has engulfed the Secret Service has ties to Tampa Bay, FOX 13 has learned.
CNN is reporting 41-year-old Arthur Huntington was the agent who started the whole controversy when he refused to pay a Colombian prostitute.
The public embarrassment cost Huntington his job with the Secret Service.
But before his elite security assignment, Huntington got his law enforcement training at the St. Petersburg Police Department, explains Public… Continue reading
Testers Wanted To Accompany Autonomous Vehicles To Florida
TAMPA – Don’t be surprised if you see an odd-looking vehicle with nobody’s hands on the steering wheel this summer. It will be an “autonomous vehicle,” using Florida roads as test tracks.
“I hope to see them here July 1,” said State Representative Jeff Brandes of St. Petersburg. “And we’re hoping to have the cars down here for the [Republican National] convention. I think that would be really exciting to show the technology off,” he said.
This past legislative session, Brandes sponsored a bill making Florida the second state to recognize autonomous vehicles. It also encourages testing and development here in the Sunshine State.
Nevada was the first state and a lot of testing is now done there, but Brandes… Continue reading
My Facebook Account Locked Twice, Tracking or Security Concerns?
Facebook Security Notification Email
If you log into your Facebook account from an unrecognized location, chances are your account will get a temporary lock placed on it. That’s why it’s so important to keep your security question and cell phone number current.
Twice this month i have got that Locked Out Message after attempting to log into my account. It’s not really a big deal as long as your account profile is current, and I’m glad Facebook has such security in place to protect my account.
However I’m one of those guys that believe it’s none of anyone’s business where my internet travels take me. It’s none of anyone’s business if I’m browsing numerous websites from a search query running… Continue reading
Dania Suarez Interview With Colombia’s W Radio Translated Audio
Dania Suarez Radio Interview Translated.
24 year-old Dania Suarez Lodono from the Island of san Andres was the prostitute in Cartagena, Colombia that got in the center of the whole sex scandal involving President Obama’s secret agents.
The whole mess went public after Arthur Huntington a married secret agent took Dania to his room at the Caribe Hotel, but when the time to pay up for her sexual services came he refused to pay what they previously agreed on the night before. You all know that story by now.
So after that and because many of Dania’s family and friends including her neighbors did not know she was a prostitute and fearful for her safety Dania decided to leave Colombia… Continue reading
Dania Suarez Describes Night Of Intimacy With Secret Service Agents
Dania Suarez, Interview With Caracol News in Cartagena
A 24-year-old woman who says she is the prostitute at the center of a Secret Service scandal gave the most full account yet of her alleged dispute over payment with an agent that led to revelations of nine Secret Service members bringing prostitutes to their rooms on a presidential business trip to Colombia.
In an interview on Caracol News in Cartagena, Dania Suarez said she and some girlfriends had met for a drink on April 11 when they encountered an American man out carousing and drinking vodka in a Cartagena bar with other Americans. Appearing composed as she spoke, Suarez said in the interview that she agreed to go back to the… Continue reading
