Summarizing 400 studies over the past 60 years, the report concludes that humans perform only “the same as or slightly better than chance.” Given that the TSA has spent almost a billion dollars on the program, that’s a pretty poor record.
This includes extensive studies of the TSA SPOT programme over 2011 & 2012
A hack attack against an Irish loyalty programme firm, Loyaltybuild, has led to the theft of the full credit card details of at least 376,000 consumers, says the country’s data protection watchdog.According to the results of a preliminary investigation by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC), credit card and – contrary to all payment storage rules – CVV details were held unencrypted on Loyaltybuild’s systems in the run-up to attacks in the middle of October.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/14/irish_loyalty_card_breach/
Due to a DNS problem with onmicrosoft.com, the glue tying domain names to Microsoft cloud services logins, these services were down. Long live the cloud!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/14/office_365_cloudy_oopsie/