Friday, May 8, 2015

DEA agents hold college student for 5 days

DEA agents detain a college student, Chong, for 5 days without food or water. Sometime in between the holding the lights were turned off. Chong yelled and lied there in his own excrement. DEA agents were held with almost no charges which enrages many against the agency as well as the recent columbia incident.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/06/dea-agents-left-college-student-in-cell-for-five-days-receive-light-punishments/

Thursday, March 26, 2015

“Almost half of all Android OS devices vulnerable to ‘Android Installer Hijacking’”

Google’s Android Operating systems are of recently vulnerable to hackers. Palo Alto says that the attack can achieve, “full access to a compromised device, including usernames, passwords, and sensitive data,”. This is a high priority issue that they are working on fixing at the moment. Xu explains it in simple terms as an attack that “allows an attacker to modify or replace a seemingly benign Android app with malware, without user knowledge.” Google says that roughly 50% of Android phones are vulnerable to the attack.

Thursday, March 5, 2015

“South Korea's Foreign Ministry releases statement condemning attack on US ambassador”

A U.S Senator was cut/slashed on his face and wrist. The ambassador was there to give a lecture on peace between North and South Korea at a performing arts center in Seoul. He was stabbed by a Korean man that wanted to reunite the North and South. So he attacked the Senator blaming the U.S for separating the countries and keeping them separated with military in the country and border of the two. Angry protests occurred later from the attack on the ambassador in support of him. So the people in South Korea did not react well to the attack and take much offense from it.

"US Envoy to SKorea in Stable Condition after Knife Attack." The Big Story. TheBigStory, 4 Mar. 2015. Web. 5 Mar. 2015. <http://bigstory.ap.org/article/5092d2905176480fb88796c069462e09/skorean-media-say-us-ambassador-attacked-and-hurt>.

BOROWIEC, STEVEN. "Knife Attack in South Korea May Crimp U.S. Ambassador's Friendly Style." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2015. Web. 5 Mar. 2015. <http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-seoul-attack-us-diplomat-20150305-story.html#page=1>.

Friday, February 20, 2015

2010 Moscow Metro bombings

On March 28 in 2010, a Metro system in Moscow was suicide bombed by two female Islamists killing 38 or more people and injuring others. The attack was in the morning at about 8:00AM and officials said that the bomb was detonated in Lubyanka station. Pieces of the bombers were found and KGB agents identified them as Islamic bombers from North Caucasus, Russia. Vladimir Putin later said that "Terrorists will be destroyed" along with other statements regarding the bombing. This was one of the worst terrorist attacks Russia has seen for years now, and it puts the country back on high alert once again after ending active counter-terrorist forces half a year ago.