Sinkhole swallows car with Rockville Centre resident Gayle Sorrentino inside - News 12 Long Island Published: February 21, 2014 2:15 PM <img src=" class="" height="431" width="768" alt="Gayle Sorrentino's car in the sinkhole." title="Gayle Sorrentino's car in the sinkhole...."/><p class="flash">You need the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player to view the video related to this article. Gayle Sorrentino's car in the sinkhole. (2/21/14) ROCKVILLE CENTRE - A Rockville Centre woman escaped injury this afternoon after a large sinkhole swallowed her car as she was pulling into her driveway. Gayle Sorrentino says she was simply trying to park the car when it suddenly started sinking into the ground. “The sand around started to come down a little bit,” said Sorrentino about her ordeal. READ MORE: Long Island Top Stories Sorrentino used her cellphone to call 911. “She remained calm throughout the whole event,” said Rockville Centre Fire Chief John Thorp.
Just When You Thought It Was Safe: Skype Vulnerabilities Emerge Silly hackers are always trying to ruin the Internet and they have found yet another target in the form of popular VOIP software Skype. According to the sweetest text security report ever, linked from h-online’s recap: “Skype suffers from a persistent Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability due to a lack of input validation and output sanitization of the ‘mobile phone’ profile entry. Other input fields may also be affected.” I love that—output sanitization. What is the moral of the story? [via The H Security] Science News and Current Events
iCreate - Apple, Mac, iPhone in-depth Reviews, News and Tips Massive sinkhole stops transit tunnelling in downtown Ottawa Jon Willing, QMI Agency , Last Updated: 3:07 PM ET OTTAWA — LRT officials on Friday couldn’t explain why the road above a downtown tunnel excavation caved in, forcing workers to pull their equipment to safety. Tunnelling at the city’s east portal is on hold until the Rideau Transit Group, the city’s LRT contractor, determines the cause of the road collapse on Waller St., south of Laurier Ave. “We can only confirm it was located directly above when tunnel excavation was occurring and at this point we cannot confirm its root cause,” deputy city manager Nancy Schepers said during a press conference. Geotechnical experts haven’t identified other safety concerns, Schepers said. “I can assure you that all steps are being taken to, first, protect the public and all physical assets in the immediate area. Around 10 p.m. According to RTG construction director Tim Stewart, the collapse happened above the crown of the tunnel, which is about five metres down from road level.
Facebook exposing children to online threats: EU survey (BRUSSELS) - Social networking sites such as Facebook are not doing enough to protect children from potential dangers such as grooming by paedophiles or online bullying, European authorities said Tuesday. Of 14 websites tested on behalf of the European Commission, just two -- Bebo and MySpace -- ensure the required controls to make sure "potential strangers" cannot gain access to profiles. "I am disappointed that most social networking sites are failing to ensure that minors' profiles are accessible only to their approved contacts by default," said European Commission vice president Neelie Kroes in a statement. The authorities in Brussels say the number of minors who use the Internet and subscribe to social networking sites is growing -- currently 77 percent of children aged 13-16 and 38 percent of those aged 9-12. Kroes said she will urge online social networking site owners to make the changes in a "self-regulatory framework" under discussion. Text and Picture Copyright 2011 AFP.
DailyTechNews.com - Top Technology Stories Cool Gadgets, New Gadgets, Tech News and Geek Design [Walyou] Sinkhole Nearly Swallows Garbage Truck The temperature warm-up and snow meltdown may have contributed to a string of water main breaks across the City of Philadelphia on Friday. The largest of 10 active water main breaks in the city occurred on the 1300 block of N. Wanamaker St. in West Philadelphia, where a sinkhole opened up on a flooded street, nearly swallowing a city garbage truck. "I could feel the pipes rumbling beneath my feet and the ground shaking," resident Zahir Yancey said as he described the moments before the hole opened up. "It looks like a cave. Gladys Holliday, who also lives on the block, says she saw the entire incident unfold. "This morning around six you could hear the water running down the street and then it's like, with little creases, you could see the water coming up," she said. "He (the garbage truck driver) got right here and then boom, he went down, water came gooshing out and the man jumped out. Several residents have been left without water or gas while the break is being repaired.
Amazon.com Security Flaw Accepts Passwords That Are Close, But Not Exact | Threat Level An Amazon.com security flaw allows some customers to log in with variations of their actual password that are close to, but not exactly, their real password. The flaw lets Amazon accept as valid some passwords that have extra characters added on after the 8th character, and also makes the password case-insensitive. For example, if your password is “Password,” Amazon.com will also let you log in with “PASSWORD,” “password,” “passwordpassword,” and “password12345.” Wired has been able to confirm the flaw, which was first reported on Reddit. It appears to affect only older Amazon.com accounts, which have not had their passwords changed in the past several years. Amazon did not respond to a request for comment. Observers on Reddit speculate that Amazon was using the unix crypt() function to encrypt older passwords, in addition to converting them to uppercase, before storing them in its servers. 1This story originally misstated Gawker’s password security scheme.