“Thousands of schoolchildren around the Northeast had one of the earliest snow days in memory on Monday after a snowstorm dumped as much as 30 inches of wet, heavy snow that snapped power lines and trees, causing widespread power outages that threatened to disrupt Halloween trick-or-treating.” Source: Hundreds Of Schools Close As Power Outages From [...]
October 31st, 2011 | Posted in Natural Disasters | Read More »
If Anonymous follows through with this it could push the cartel to try and engage in some attribution ops of their own. “An international group of online hackers is warning a Mexican drug cartel to release one of its members, kidnapped from a street protest, or it will publish the identities and addresses of the [...]
October 29th, 2011 | Posted in Cyber Security,Organized Crime & Gangs | Read More »
“Mother Nature had a little trick for the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on the Halloween weekend, as moderate to heavy snow and rain Saturday knocked out power to more than 1 million households and caused major headaches for air travelers.” (Early snowstorm hits Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, crimps travel – CNN.com)
October 29th, 2011 | Posted in Travel Safety | Read More »
“t least 13 U.S. service members were killed in Kabul on Saturday when a suicide bomber struck a vehicle in a NATO military convoy, a U.S. military official said.” Source: Official: 13 American troops killed in Kabul attack – CNN.com
October 29th, 2011 | Posted in Terrorism | Read More »
“Syrian security forces opened fire on Friday on protesters and hunted them down in house-to-house raids, killing about 40 people in the deadliest day in weeks in the country’s 7-month-old uprising, activists said. “ (Syrian security kill 40 after worst day of violence in weeks – Telegraph)
October 28th, 2011 | Posted in Dangerous Places | Read More »