Daily Archives: August 22, 2013

Israel Military: 4 Rockets Fired, None Hit Country

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hi-rocketfireThe Israeli military says a total of four rockets were fired toward Israel from Lebanon, but none landed in its territory.

Military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said the rockets were fired Thursday from a location south of the Lebanese port city of Tyre, with one intercepted by Israel’s “Iron Dome” defense system. He said the others did not land in Israel. He said light damage to a street and vehicle in northern Israel was likely caused from fallout from the rocket-defense system.

Lerner blamed “global jihad” elements of being behind the attack, referring to groups either linked to or inspired by al-Qaida.

 

Unidentified 13ft-long sea monster with horns washes up on beach in Spain and has marine biologists stumped

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four-metres long creatureWith its horns, long white body and slithery form, it looks like a mythical beast.

But this four-metre long horned creature is only too real – as the stench from its decomposing flesh proved.

The mysterious sea creature was washed ashore in Villaricos, Spain – and tests are being done on the carcass to determine what it is.

An unfortunate swimmer stumbled across the head before coming across the rest of the body, the Huffington Post reported.
Civil Protection Coordinator Maria Sanchez said: ‘We have no idea what it can be, but it smelled bad, because it was so badly decomposed’, Digital Spy reported.

The extent of the deterioration of the creature meant most of the remains had to be buried for safety reasons.

Several theories have been suggested about what the creature is – ranging from it being a type of shark to it being an oar fish, but researchers are still examining it.

 

The hacker who broke into Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page will get a $12,000 reward from online donors

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Mark ZuckerbergThe hacker who broke into Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Timeline to expose a security lapse will be awarded nearly $12,000 from an online crowdsourced campaign.

The GoFundMe campaign has raised $11,741 for Khalil Shreateh, of Palestine, who claims he was forced to hack into Zuckerberg’s page to bring attention to the security vulnerability because Facebook had ignored his earlier warnings.

The bug that Shreateh found allowed him to post on the Timelines of people who weren’t his Facebook friends.

Shreateh first contacted the Facebook security team after proving the glitch was real by writing on the wall of a friend of the Facebook founder.

But instead of thanking him and fixing the issue, Facebook said it wasn’t a bug.

Undeterred, Shreateh used the glitch to hack his way onto Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page.

‘Sorry for breaking your privacy,’ he wrote in a since removed post to Zuckerberg, ‘I had no other choice…after all the reports I sent to Facebook team.’

Minutes later, his pleas were answered. Facebook contacted him demanding to know how he’d hacked their bosses personal page.

‘We fixed this bug on Thursday,’ wrote Matt Jones from Facebook’s security team in a Saturday post on Hacker News.