| Chinese hackers: No site is safe
The site offers tools, articles, news and flash tutorials about hacking. Private computer experts in the United States from iDefense Security Intelligence, which provides cybersecurity advice to governments and Fortune 500 companies, say the group's site "appears to be an important site in the broader Chinese hacking community." Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks of on-again, off-again e-mail exchanges. When they finally agreed, CNN was told to meet them on the island of Zhoushan, just south of Shanghai and a major port for China's navy. The apartment has cement floors and almost no furniture. What they do have are three of the latest computers. They are cautious when it comes to naming the Web sites they have hacked. But eventually Xiao Chen claims two of his colleagues -- not the ones with him in the room -- have hacked into the Pentagon and downloaded information, although he wouldn't specify what was gleaned.
Dick Jerardi: College basketball wrap
OU won, 64-37. WILDEST GAME Creighton beat Bradley, 111-110, in two overtimes. The teams will play each other again Friday in the opening round of the MVC Tournament. Creighton now has 10 consecutive 20-win seasons. HAS THIS BEEN DONE? Davidson finished 20-0 in the Southern Conference. That has to be a record. Memphis and Cornell are the only other teams unbeaten in league play. Memphis has two regular-season league games left, Cornell three. DICK JERARDI'S TOP 15 1. Memphis (28-1): Shot well from everywhere, but did not defend for once and held on, 76-67 at Southern Mississippi. USM shot 54.2 percent against the Tigers, who had been holding teams to 37.8 percent. 2. North Carolina (27-2): Came from 18 down early in second half and survived 46 points from Boston College's Tyrese Rice to win, 90-80.
Councilman MikeK Recalls Knievel Action Figure
The blog is going to finish November with a record monthly number of more than 240,000 page-views. That compares to 148,476 last November. Also, Huckleberries has attracted about 2,085,000 page-views through the first 11 months of 2007, compared to 1.13M at this time last year. So HBO has almost doubled viewership in the last 12 months. Sportslink, the combined sports blog, came into its own this month by attracting more than 300,000 page-view -- an average of over 10,000 per day. The print side might be struggling but the online is healthier than ever. Now, for your Wild Card ... .
N.Y. factory index declines
At 4.19, the future employment index also fell to its lowest level since October 2001. February's order, shipment and employment index plunges sent New York's manufacturing sector back to where it stood near the end of the nation's last recession. The 2001 recession started in March and lasted eight months. Technically, a recession is when the gross domestic product exhibits two consecutive quarters of negative growth. The nation posted a 0.6 percent GDP increase for the fourth quarter of 2007. Global Insight, a Lexington, Mass. economic research firm, recently declared that the nation has entered into a recession. “The fact is New York does worse in a recession [than the nation], and this is an example of that," said David Shaffer, a spokesman for the Business Council of New York State, an Albany trade organization.
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The Nanny Campaigns For Clinton
Nydia Velasquez and Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion at the Ambar Room. In advance of that last event, Clinton's campaign announced she had been endorsed by Latina PAC, a New York-based group of professional Hispanic women, who, as Azi reports, were not upset about her position on Gov. Eliot Spitzer's now-defunct plan to let illegal immigrants get driver's licenses. .
Wisconsin Sports Spectacular
It showed a LOT of disrespect for the officials when he KNEW that they had to make the last snap. Undoubtedly he's been on the other side of that situation before. I can maybe understand in the moment he forgot, and started to go out onto the field, but when he continued out there and shook Coughlin's hand, and then goes into the locker room when his team had to stay out there and see the last snap and the Giants celebration, that was wrong. It took something away from the last snap of the Super Bowl, which I always see as a classic moment when the winning team has the ball and is running out the clock. .
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