The Helius Group has announced a joint venture with The Combination of Rothes Distillers (CoRD) called Helius CoRDe. Their goal is to create a renewable (biomass-powered) combined heat and power (CHP) plant for whisky production on Speyside (northeastern Scotland). The proposed £50 million project will use whisky distillery by-products to fuel a 7.2 MWe GreenSwitch … Continue reading Sustainable Whiskey
Monday’s New York County District Attorney’s Office news release says an indictment from 2007 has been updated and now has 173-counts against seventeen men. They are charged with operating a multi-national criminal enterprise from November 2001 to August 2007. The Western Express Cybercrime Group is responsible for over $4 million worth of identified credit card … Continue reading Western Express Indictments
The PCI SSC just released a document on how to detect and prevent skimming. Skimming, as the word implies, is capturing data as it passes through a device. That means devices are usually modified so they will copy and record data to unauthorized storage or they will send it out over an unauthorized network connection. … Continue reading Skimming Prevention
All things in moderation could be the byline of this story. Computerworld brings to light a CDC study that apparently says gamers are 35, overweight and sad The average gamer, far from being a teen, is actually a 35-year-old man who is overweight, aggressive, introverted — and often depressed, according to a report out this … Continue reading Hazardous Effects of Gaming