Day: November 15, 2013

TSA screening works only ‘a little better than chance,’ according to government report

Posted on by Robin Edgar

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. http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/13/5100702/tsa-screening-works-only-a-little-better-than-chance-according-to This includes extensive studies of the TSA SPOT programme over 2011 & 2012

Hackers steal ‘FULL credit card details’ of 376,000 people from Irish loyalty programme firm

Posted on by Robin Edgar

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 Read more about Hackers steal ‘FULL credit card details’ of 376,000 people from Irish loyalty programme firm[…]