The identity alert site at UCLA has some late breaking news: A sophisticated computer hacker has illegally and fraudulently accessed a restricted UCLA database containing names and certain personal information. This database includes UCLA’s current and some former students, faculty and staff, some student applicants and some parents of students or applicants who applied for … Continue reading UCLA warns of security breach
In a move to reduce the risk of suicide bombing, cars are prohibited from driving to Baidoa from Mogadishu, according to the BBC: Government officials say the ban will come into effect on Tuesday. “I think taking such a decision is the only solution to boost our security,” Baidoa official Ahmed Maddey Issak told the … Continue reading Cars banned in Somalia
This is the kind of movie chock full of security easter-eggs. Consider the synopsis, for example: Tae-suk is homeless and lives like a phantom. His daily routine involves temporarily staying in houses and apartments he knows to be vacant. He never steals from, nor damages, his unknowing hosts’ homes; rather, he is like a kind … Continue reading 3-Iron
Many countries have women in their armed forces, including the US, but this AP story tries to make the point that they are at significant risk even if they are not in front-line ground-combat positions: Lynch’s job — Army supply clerk in a maintenance company — illustrates one of the realities of the war: No … Continue reading Women on the battlefield