Leela: they say Zapp Brannigan single-handedly saved the Octillion system from a horde of rampaging killbots. Fry: Wow. Bender: A grim day for robotkind. Bender: Eh, but we can always build more killbots.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Florida man was indicted Wednesday in an alleged scheme to steal vast amounts of personal information, and the Justice Department said it might be the largest illegal invasion and theft of personal data to date.
The 144-count indictment against Scott Levine, 45, also includes charges of conspiracy, fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice, according to the Justice Department.
Levine's alleged target was Acxiom Corp., one of the world's largest companies managing personal, financial and corporate data, federal authorities said.
Levine is accused of stealing vast amounts of personal information from the company via the Internet.
Federal officials said the theft of approximately 8.2 gigabytes of data resulted in losses of more than $7 million.
"The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy," said Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray at a news conference in Washington.
"We will aggressively pursue those who steal private information from computer networks and make it clear that there are serious consequences for such crimes," he said.
Levine, a resident of Boca Raton, Florida, is described in the indictment as "the controlling force" in Snipermail.com Inc., a Florida corporation engaged in distributing advertisements via the Internet on behalf of advertisers and brokers.
Acxiom, headquartered in Little Rock and Conway, Arkansas, stores and processes millions of bits of data on behalf of a wide range of clients that include IBM, GE, Microsoft and many major credit card companies.
The invasions from Snipermail were discovered during another investigation of another intrusion at Acxiom last year, authorities said.
The FBI's regional computer forensics laboratory in Dallas, Texas, and computer forensic experts from the FBI and the Secret Service were unleashed on the cyber intruders.
The indictment alleges that Levine and others at the company attempted to hide computers from investigators.
Six employees at the company agreed to cooperate with the investigation, authorities said.
Near as I understand it, not if you're an american.
My understanding of it was that after all the recounts, it was Gore that won.
I will be happy to be corrected if this is untrue...
WE're getting the language changes (known as political correctness and spin), and now the cameras. The US and the UK are together...
It's getting frightning....
Don't knock it. It's that law that allows so many student societies to perform Gilbert and Sullival Shows, cos they don't have to pay anyone to be allowed to perform them...
modern movies seem obsessed with being "cooler" than everything that has gone before.
Case in point
Matrix - Kung Fu in a virtual world Matrix Reloaded - Kung Fu in a virtual world with mythical beasts Matrix Revolutions - Kung Fu in a virtual worldwith mythical beasts that walked on the celing and not the floor.
It's like Star Wars is running out of ideas so the franchise is going for big and flashy over anything worth watching. This is why I am predicting that there will be a battle involving the largest armies ever concieved, and this time, there will either be a two lightsabred enemy or more than one bad guy at once. Just so this film can be "Bigger, More Destructive, Better" than the last one.
Which is a shame, because these new films are in serious danger of ruining the original films (which I love) just by association....
Slashdot Mirror
Possibly because many people won't have the faintest scooby who Grigori Perelman is....
At least we know who the Russians are, and from there we can specify....
You've got Money?
Like I'm ever going to get THAT message...
are all masturbation jokes.
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Yup - this is definately
http://www.fact-index.com/d/da/dalek.html
:)
Check out the second paragraph - it's got the title of the episode in it....
With or without oxygen?
Not true - the Daleks did evolve to go on non-flat surfaces, including being able to hover up a flight of stairs....
Now...nowhere is safe......
ARGH!
I take it you don't use windows then.... ;)
Leela: they say Zapp Brannigan single-handedly saved the Octillion system from a horde of rampaging killbots.
Fry: Wow.
Bender: A grim day for robotkind.
Bender: Eh, but we can always build more killbots.
Don't they already have something like that built into a helmet... Like this?
Wasn't there some comment which supposedly had breached MS copyright, and /. refused to remove it.
That speaks volumes to me about the circumstances under which posts are removed/tampered with...
Microsoft bashing will commence in 3....2.....1...
Bashing has commenced.
Scrab
Here's a link to the Bod, full name : The Bodleian Library
these truths to be self evident, that all software is created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights...
On second thoughts, perhaps not...
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Florida man was indicted Wednesday in an alleged scheme to steal vast amounts of personal information, and the Justice Department said it might be the largest illegal invasion and theft of personal data to date.
The 144-count indictment against Scott Levine, 45, also includes charges of conspiracy, fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice, according to the Justice Department.
Levine's alleged target was Acxiom Corp., one of the world's largest companies managing personal, financial and corporate data, federal authorities said.
Levine is accused of stealing vast amounts of personal information from the company via the Internet.
Federal officials said the theft of approximately 8.2 gigabytes of data resulted in losses of more than $7 million.
"The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy," said Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray at a news conference in Washington.
"We will aggressively pursue those who steal private information from computer networks and make it clear that there are serious consequences for such crimes," he said.
Levine, a resident of Boca Raton, Florida, is described in the indictment as "the controlling force" in Snipermail.com Inc., a Florida corporation engaged in distributing advertisements via the Internet on behalf of advertisers and brokers.
Acxiom, headquartered in Little Rock and Conway, Arkansas, stores and processes millions of bits of data on behalf of a wide range of clients that include IBM, GE, Microsoft and many major credit card companies.
The invasions from Snipermail were discovered during another investigation of another intrusion at Acxiom last year, authorities said.
The FBI's regional computer forensics laboratory in Dallas, Texas, and computer forensic experts from the FBI and the Secret Service were unleashed on the cyber intruders.
The indictment alleges that Levine and others at the company attempted to hide computers from investigators.
Six employees at the company agreed to cooperate with the investigation, authorities said.
Or perhaps extra limbs, like Doc Ock? They could be quite useful, if used for good rather than smashing stuff....
Near as I understand it, not if you're an american. My understanding of it was that after all the recounts, it was Gore that won. I will be happy to be corrected if this is untrue...
WE're getting the language changes (known as political correctness and spin), and now the cameras. The US and the UK are together... It's getting frightning....
I just felt a distubance in the force. Like a million canada jokes, all shouted out loud,and were suddenly silenced...
Don't knock it. It's that law that allows so many student societies to perform Gilbert and Sullival Shows, cos they don't have to pay anyone to be allowed to perform them...
I can claim it on my tax returns. All I need now is to actually have any money......
*sigh*
Any moron CAN install a patch, but we know from all the stories about viruses that many do not....
Sodium? Not on its own. A couple of molar masses of sodium chloride to be procured I feel.......
modern movies seem obsessed with being "cooler" than everything that has gone before.
Case in point
Matrix - Kung Fu in a virtual world
Matrix Reloaded - Kung Fu in a virtual world with mythical beasts
Matrix Revolutions - Kung Fu in a virtual worldwith mythical beasts that walked on the celing and not the floor.
It's like Star Wars is running out of ideas so the franchise is going for big and flashy over anything worth watching. This is why I am predicting that there will be a battle involving the largest armies ever concieved, and this time, there will either be a two lightsabred enemy or more than one bad guy at once. Just so this film can be "Bigger, More Destructive, Better" than the last one.
Which is a shame, because these new films are in serious danger of ruining the original films (which I love) just by association....
Quick site for those who don't know who Achilles was or the significance of the heel.
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http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/achilles.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/11/12/manure031112e -electricity.htmi ews/c3Views200309.pdf/ ap_gas_45671.aspc owpower.jhtml
http://dnr.metrokc.gov/dnrp/press/2003/0717methan
http://www.climatechangecentral.com/resources/c3v
http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/11/11272001
http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2002/03/032502t_