Ticketing details announced for Morocco 2013

Preliminary details for the sale of tickets for the FIFA Club World Cup Morocco 2013 have been announced, with VISA exclusive pre-sales beginning on Monday 14 October. The online pre-sale, exclusive to VISA cardholders, begins on Monday 14 October and will run until Sunday 27 October. This will be for all categories, including the Category 3 reserved for Moroccoresidents. The open sales phase, for all other payment cards, will begin on Monday 28 October, and will again include all ticket categories. For those wishing to purchase...

At least 35 killed as train derails in Spain: reports

(Reuters) - At least 35 people were killed and 50 injured when a train derailed on the outskirts of the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday in one of the country's worst rail disasters. Bodies covered in blankets lay next to carriages as smoke billowed from the wreckage a few hundred meters away from the entrance to the city's main station. The train derailed on the eve of the ancient city's main Christian festival when thousands of pilgrims travel in to pack the streets. "It was going so quickly ... It seems that...

Qatar Prime Minister’s Daughter Linked to Prostitution Ring

Islam Times - The Financial Times, a renowned British newspaper reported that the British Security Services had broken into a London apartment following concerns that the residence was used for terrorist activities, only to found that the premises were used for prostitution. The apartment which is owned by non-other than Salwa Hamad bin Jassim, the Qatari Prime Minister’s daughter, raised some serious question marks over the young woman’s moral standards and the nature of her activities when in...

Boston : User Prediction Made before the Events Happened

User Prediction Made before the Events Happened Ignore these Two Backpack identified Suspect 1 Surrendering Suspect 1 Being escorted Away How Suspect 1 ended up How Suspect 1 ended up 2 Suspect 2 Not Injured Suspect 2 getting a breathing tube While we were distracted Suspect still had his backpack Infographic on Mercenaries Spot the agent Ignore these people Oops too soon Irony Wrong Backpack What they mean to say Hat Identification Real...

Dubai Five-0: Police get a face lift with $550,000 Lamborghini

In a city of boundless bling, Dubai Police also are in hot pursuit after adding a nearly $550,000 Lamborghini to its fleet. The sports car, painted in green-and-white colors of the Dubai force, will not likely be roaring after law breakers. Instead, it will be mostly dispatched to tourist areas to show - in the words of Major General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina, Dubai Police’s Deputy Commander General - “how classy Dubai is.” The two-door, two-seater sports car, which can reach speeds of up to 217mph, has been painted in the green-and-white...

Moroccan football hooligans rampage in Casablanca

Moroccan football hooligans rampaged through Casablanca, mugging pedestrians and smashing up carriages of the city’s new tram system, cars and public buses. Nearly 200 people have been arrested.Fans from the capital Rabat paraded through Casablanca before Thursday’s match between clubs from the two cities and attacked people and property. No one was reported injured.Police said Friday that 193 people were charged with vandalism and the destruction included eight tram carriages, seven public buses and 13 cars. People described on national television...

Apple finally adopts HTTPS for the App Store - here's why it matters

Last year, a Googler named Dr. Elie Bursztein noticed that Apple's App Store protocols weren't very secure. Much of the interaction your iDevice had with the App Store was conducted via plain old HTTP. Apple should really have been using HTTPS, or secure HTTP. HTTPS, as you probably know, is HTTP traffic carried inside a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transaction Layer Security (TLS) wrapper. → SSL/TLS uses public-key cryptography to create a secure data channel, even between users or websites that have never corresponded before....

Google Glass: the ultimate creepy stalker toy?

Yesterday was a challenging day for the double X-chromosomed - or, really, for anybody who doesn't want to be spied on. First, there was this Ars Technica pieceabout ratters: hackers who use remote administration tools (RATs) to gain access to (primarily) women's webcams, files and PC microphones to steal files and surreptitiously spy on victims, whom they refer to as "girl slaves." Then there was this: ReadWrite's roundup of five creepy things you'll be able to do with Google Glass. If you're not yet familiar with Google's...

Skype in hot water over failure to let French police eavesdrop

French telecom regulators have suggested that Skype could face charges for failing to register as a telecom and do all the things that French telecoms are supposed to do - for example, let police eavesdrop on calls. ARCEP, the French telecom authority, on Tuesday posted a notice stating that they have informed the Paris public prosecutor that as Skype provides French internet users with the ability to make phone calls, it is thereby obliged to comply with regulations that include routing emergency calls and "implementing the means...

Barack Obama hacked by SQL injection

This story has been updated with content that supersedes much of the original content. Updates are found at the bottom of the story Hackers disclosed this morning that they have been able to compromise BarackObama.com through a SQL injection attack. The English of the post is quite poor; however, the researcher makes a very valid point. Shouldn't the most powerful, well-protected man in the world have a website that is at least reasonably secure? Storing credentials in plain text is even more embarrassing than being vulnerable...