Christian Daily |
Chinese church vicar tortured and threatened with death to extort …
Christian Daily A church vicar imprisoned in China reportedly continues to endure torture and death threats from guards who want him to confess to being a spy. |
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All Clues Point to the Death of the Angler Exploit Kit
Softpedia News Angler, the world's most popular exploit kit, appears to have shut down, as cyber-criminals are moving their operations to other exploits kits such as Neutrino, RIG, and Sundown, according to a tip received by Softpedia from Jerome Segura of Malwarebytes. |
The typo itself – an Associated Press story reported that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1965 instead of 1865 – was just that, a typo, as even a middle-schooler knows our 16th president never lived to hear the Beatles.
However, among journalists of a certain age (mine), the distressing though not unexpected aspect of the miscue was that the erroneous date made it onto so many prestigious news sites. As a 1970s-era college friend of mine put it in an email subject line: “Copy editing was a fine profession …”
Meaning that back before the near-extinction of copy editors, it would have been unlikely that the Associated Press would have allowed such a gaffe, never mind that it would have gone unnoticed by so many AP-subscriber news organizations.
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China Sentences Man to Death for Espionage, Saying He Sold Secrets
New York Times BEIJING — In a sign of China's increasingly aggressive efforts to combat espionage and other security threats, the government said it had sentenced a former computer technician to death for selling 150,000 classified documents to foreign spies … China jails man for espionage over islets disputed with Japan Chinese Man Gets Death for Selling Documents on Encryption |