Have you ever envied James Bond for his ‘toys,’ his spy tools disguised as innocent objects? Is so, then you’ll be happy to know that for about $ 30 you can now build a pen-sized device that looks like a dry erase marker . . . but it will open about four to five million hotel keycard locks. Read more
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An exclusive Washington DC hotel’s claims it was following State Department security rules when it barred a Muslim employee from accessing rooms occupied by an Israeli diplomatic delegation are “unprecedented,” said a Muslim civil rights group.
The claim was contained in the latest court filings in a discrimination lawsuit filed by Mohamed Arafi and the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) against the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. A federal court in Washington is currently deciding on whether to allow the suit to proceed.
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A Hungarian man pleaded guilty to charges of hacking into the Marriott International Corp.’s computers and threatening to expose the hotel’s confidential information and inject malware into its computer if it didn’t hire him to maintain the company’s computers.
Attila Nemeth, 26, pleaded guilty under an agreement that would give him a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for the transmission of the malicious code and a maximum of five years in prison for his threats to expose confidential information, said a Department of Justice statement on Nov. 23.
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