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The Inevitable Comes To Pass: Of Course A “Sexy Ebola Containment Suit” Exists
As the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, as the Earth doth go round the moon and as strangers will inevitably call me Mary despite evidence that that is not, in fact, my name, we as a society cannot resist the temptation to create topical Halloween costumes. But we’re also not content with just one iteration, say, of an Ebola Containment Suit costume for Halloween this year. Nope. There inevitably had to be a a Sexy Ebola Containment Suit costume.
And so it has come to pass: There’s regular containment, and then there’s sexy containment.
What makes sexy containment different than your run-of-the-mill hazardous cleanup? You’re fighting Ebola in style, and will be cutting such a shape throughout the upper echelons that the world’s most fashionable people will be clamoring for your style. Sure, we’ll go with that.
“As the deadly Ebola virus trickles its way through the United States, fighting its disease is no reason to compromise style. The short dress and chic gas mask will be the talk of Milan, London, Paris, and New York as the world’s fashionistas seek global solutions to hazmat couture. Ending plague isn’t the endeavor of a single woman, so be sure to check out our men’s Ebola Containment Costume for a great couple’s costume idea.”
It seems appropriate to end this on a simple not: Sigh.
by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
Master Of Fried Fair Food Opens Restaurant, Will Clog Arteries Year-Round
Here at Consumerist, we like to keep our fingers on the feeble, erratic pulse of the latest news in junk food. We like to check in annually on the latest novelty fair foods from Chicken Charlie’s, a vendor at various fairs in southern California and an influential fryer of things. Exciting news from San Diego: Chicken Charlie’s opened a year-round restaurant over the weekend.
Our most recent post about Chicken Charlie’s was about their offering at this year’s fair: a triple cheeseburger on a Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut bun. Surprisingly, no part of this meal is deep-fried, but no part of it really had to be.
That brings us to an important question: how many deep-fried Klondike Bars and dough balls soaked with Kool-Aid are they moving? Not as many as you’d think. The tiny restaurant’s menu mixes fair food with much healthier fare, like salads and… um, salads with fried chicken on them.
The owner says that the most popular item in the restaurant is right there in the name: people are mostly coming to buy fried chicken, not deep-fried Oreos. He claims to have invented the deep-fried Oreo in 1998, and has been an innovator in fried-food technology since.At the fair, whatever fried innovation makes its debut that year is always the most popular item.
After a few decades of vending and frying at events, he began making plans to open a stationary restaurant a few years ago when his first child was born.
Yelp reviews so far are mixed, but overwhelmingly positive.
Chicken Charlie’s FryBQ Debuts: Fair Food Magician Rejects ‘Boring’ [Times of San Diego]
by Laura Northrup via Consumerist
Hours Before Going Dark, Twitpic Acquired By Twitter – The Company Responsible For Its Demise
Tech Times reports that Twitpic officials announced the last-minute reprieve in a blog post just hours before the site was set to go dark.
Noah Everett, CEO of Twitpic, says in the post that the two companies reached an agreement in which Twitter would receive the Twipic domain and photo archive.
“Twitter shares our goal of protecting our users and this data,” Everett wrote. “Also, since Twitpic’s user base consists of Twitter users, it makes sense to keep this data with Twitter.”
But the news doesn’t mean that users will be able to actually use Twitpic in its previous capacity in the future.
Instead photos will be available in read-only mode, meaning users can no longer upload new content or edit existing photos. However users can continue to delete, download and export photos, or delete their Twitpic accounts.
Twitter’s decision to acquire Twitpic comes less than two months after the social media network demanded that the photo sharing site abandon its 5-year-old trademark for the Twitpic name or lose access to the Twitter API, taking away a good chunk of Twitpic’s reason for existing in the first place.
At the time, officials with the smaller site said they didn’t have the resources to maintain a drawn-out legal fight over its name and opted to shut down operations.
When Twitpic began in 2008, it was one of the few services that allowed photos to be shared on Twitter. But over time, Twitter developed its own platform allowing users to upload photos directly to their feeds.
Twitpic is dead but it’s domain and photo archive will live on, thanks to Twitter [Tech Times]
by Ashlee Kieler via Consumerist
Bogus Credit Card Charges Look Like They Were Made With Chip-Enabled Cards
This is according to KrebsOnSecurity.com, which reports that at least three U.S. banks have recently seen tens of thousands of fraudulent transactions coming from Brazil that are not only using account numbers stolen from data heists like the massive Home Depot breach, but which are being processed through the Visa and MasterCard networks as if they are coming from chip-enabled cards.
One small New England bank tells Krebs that it saw around $120,000 in bogus charges from Brazil in just a two-day period last week. All of those purchases came through the MasterCard network as if they were from new, chip-enabled cards. Luckily, it was able to block $80,000 of these transactions from going through, but it could still be on the hook for the remaining $40,000.
The accounts in question had been associated with the recent Home Depot breach, but the bank said that it had previously seen almost no attempts to make fraudulent purchases with that stolen info. Then came last week.
“We saw very low penetration rates on our Home Depot cards, so we didn’t do a mass reissue,” a rep for the bank tells Krebs. “And then in one day we matched a month’s worth of fraud on those cards thanks to these charges from Brazil.”
Since the bank has not yet released chip-embedded cards, how are the thieves tricking the MasterCard and Visa networks?
In the case of the New England bank, it says that MasterCard initially insisted that the purchases had to have been made with the physical chip-embedded cards. But not only has the bank not released any of these cards, its payment processor hasn’t yet been certified by MasterCard to handle these sorts of transactions.
The microchips themselves are apparently quite hard and expensive to clone and Krebs explains that there are additional security checks that banks can use to validate chip card transactions:
The chip stores encrypted data about the cardholder account, as well as a “cryptogram” that allows banks to tell whether a card or transaction has been modified in any way. The chip also includes an internal counter mechanism that gets incremented with each sequential transaction, so that a duplicate counter value or one that skips ahead may indicate data copying or other fraud to the bank that issued the card.
Since no one is speaking on the record about these bogus purchases, insiders tell Krebs that the most likely explanation for the trickery is what’s known as a “replay” attack.
It’s believed that the fraudsters in this case had control of a payment terminal and could manipulate data fields for transactions put through that terminal.
Once they had data from a genuine chip card transaction, they could basically fill in the blanks with the stolen card numbers and the other necessary info.
Avivah Litan, a fraud analyst with Gartner Inc., tells Krebs that Brazilian scammers were recently able to pull this sort of fraud on a Canadian bank because the institution wasn’t thoroughly checking the cryptograms or counters on chip-card transactions.
“The [Canadian] bank in this case would take any old cryptogram and they weren’t checking that one-time code because they didn’t have it implemented correctly,” Litan explains. “If they saw an EMV transaction and didn’t see the code, they would just authorize the transaction.”
It’s basically like trying to sneak backstage at an event by wearing a VIP lanyard around your neck and hoping that no one actually looks to see if it’s genuine.
“It appears with these attacks that the crooks aren’t breaking the EMV protocol, but taking advantage of bad implementations of it,” says Litan. “Doing EMV correctly is hard, and there are lots of ways to break not the cryptography but to mess with the implementation of EMV.”
MasterCard is apparently now in the process of reviewing the fraudulent transactions in the New England case to see if the merchants associated with these purchases have any actual records of these transactions.
While chip-enabled cards can add a level of security to transactions, it’s important for banks to not be lulled into a false sense that everything is okay.
Litan tells Krebs that setting up the systems for chip-based transactions is not simple for banks and processors, but that “A lot of banks will loosen other fraud controls right away, even before they verify that they’ve got EMV implemented correctly.”
“That’s the irony: We think EMV is going to solve all our card fraud problems,” says Litan, “but doing it correctly is going to take a lot longer than we thought.”
by Chris Morran via Consumerist
Police: Regretful Thief Returns Money To Gas Station Hours After Robbing It, Apologizes
There’s regretting past misdeeds, and then there’s feeling immediately so sorry for doing someone wrong that you return to the scene of the crime to set things aright. The latter was the case for a 23-year-old in California who police said robbed a gas station convenience store and then came back to apologize with the cash later.
Police in Eureka, CA say that the suspect robbed the gas station, demanding cash, at gunpoint, reports the Associated Press.
After a clerk handed him some money, the suspect allegedly took two bottles of beer and hit the road. But cut to three hours later and the would-be robber returned to the scene of his alleged past misdeeds and handed over most of the cash he’s suspected of stealing earlier in the day.
He told the clerk that the weapon he’d had on him earlier was just a BB gun, which police had yet to recover. He also said he was sorry, that he’d taken the cash to get a fresh start and leave town, but he’d realized he’d done wrong.
He was booked into jail on $50,000 bail.
Police: Regretful California robber returns cash [Associated Press]
by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
Microsoft Dropping Xbox One Price $50 In Advance Of Holiday Season
Starting on Nov. 2, the Xbox One will be available for as low as $350 at many of the nation’s largest retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Target, Toys ‘R’ Us, Walmart, and of course Microsoft Stores.
The $50 discount will also apply to a variety of Xbox One console/game bundles being offered during the holiday season. More info is available here.
The Xbox One originally launched at $500 but eventually got a price drop to $400 for users choosing to go without the Kinect motion/voice sensor. That made the base console the same price as Sony’s competing PS4.
No word yet on whether Sony will try to match or undercut Microsoft, or if the company feels secure that it can sell enough consoles at the $400 price point.
by Chris Morran via Consumerist
Man Throws Chihuahua At Window Of Starbucks That Banned Him
Nobody knows whether the puppy belonged to the man banned from the Starbucks, a bystander who hasn’t stepped forward to reclaim their pet, or where it could have come from. What the authorities do know is that the man pitched the puppy into the window with such force that bystanders thought that it couldn’t have survived.
Fortunately for everyone, it did. The four-pound dog is now in the care of a local rescue organization, and one of her hind legs is broken and needs repair. “How in the world can someone take such a tiny animal and use it to vent their anger?” the volunteer who is providing foster care to the dog asked TV station KHOU.
The man who threw the dog into the window has been charged with animal cruelty, and remains in jail. Naturally, the dog has been named Starbucks, presumably because “Pupkin Spice Latte” was too long. Since no one knows who she belongs to, she will go up for adoption after she recovers.
Chihuahua on mend after being thrown against Starbucks window [KHOU]
by Laura Northrup via Consumerist
American Airlines Flight Forced To Return To Gate After Passenger Discovers “Al-Quida” WiFi Network
While there’s no rule that WiFi networks need to employ good spelling, naming a plane hotspot “Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork” isn’t going to help anyone. And it’s because of that poorly chosen/thick-headed decision that an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to London last night had to turn back before it even got started.
Adding to the rolls of poorly chosen hotspot names, ABC 7 reports that a passenger on last night’s flight saw the terrorist named WiFi connection and told a flight attendant after becoming concerned.
Passengers were then reportedly stuck on the plane for about three hours while authorities investigated, with some travelers saying they were at first told the delay was due to a maintenance problem.
American Airlines officials say the flight returned to the gate and was delayed until 1 p.m. Monday, according to ABC 7.
It said last night that it’s assessing the situation and law enforcement has been notified while police gather more information.
When in doubt, stick with WiFi names like “Fuzzy Socks Stink, Right” or “Keep Your Head Off My Shoulder, Please.”
LAX FLIGHT DELAYED AFTER WIFI HOTSPOT NAME PROMPTS CONCERNS [ABC 7]
by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
Amazon Announces Fire TV Stick To Compete With Chromecast
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Where there once was plenty of room on the streaming TV field, things are now getting a little bit more crowded, as Amazon has announced a rival to Chromecast. The Fire TV Stick is a dongle similar to other streaming media devices that connects to an HDMI port on HDTVs, and will allow users to watch content from Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, Hulu Plus and more.
The Fire TV Stick follows Amazon’s set-top box, the Fire TV, which debuted last winter. But while that device sells for $99, the new stick sells for $39 (compared to Chromecast’s $35 price tag) and can do much of what Fire TV does, and seems to be a direct bid to compete with Chromecast and the Roku streaming stick for customers’ affections.
Amazon is touting features like the Fire TV Stick’s dual-core processor, 1 GB of memory and “4x the storage and 2x the memory of Chromecast,” as well as features like “ASAP,” which “learns what movies and shows you like so they start instantly” instead of taking time to buffer.
In addition to TV apps, the Stick has the option for playing games, though you’ll likely need a separate controller for ease of play.
There’s also a remote and app option for controlling the Stick, or a voice search option that allows users to speak what they want and control the device that way — but that remote is sold separately and doesn’t come free when you order the device.
Amazon is taking pre-orders now for the $39 devices, with Prime customers getting the option for two days only to buy it for $19. Orders will begin shipping on Nov. 19.
by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
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