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    • How to help tornado victims May 21, 2013
      By Devin Coldewey, Contributing Writer, NBC NewsThe tornadoes in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and other states are wreaking havoc, but relief efforts are underway. Local schools, churches and community organizations lucky enough to escape damage are coordinating food and shelter for displaced residents and accepting donations of food, blankets and other much-need […]
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    • Sleep-deprived teens cause crashes, study shows May 20, 2013
      The dangers of texting while driving gets more headlines and drunk driving remains one of the main causes of automobile accidents, but a large, new study published Monday helps explain why so many teens and young adults are involved in motor accidents.They're sleepy.Report after report shows it -- sleepy drivers cause car crashes. In the new study, rese […]
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      Whatever course it chooses, the Federal Reserve will have to grapple with the reality that while its policies have helped levitate stocks, they've been considerably less effective at expanding the economy. While rising equity prices help add to total growth, the stock market is not the economy. The U.S. economy, rather, is propelled by consumption, whic […]
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    • Breast cancer bras a no-go for Victoria's Secret May 20, 2013
      Strapless, multi-way, demi, the “pushups of summer” – if you want a bra, Victoria’s Secret stocks it. Unless you’re a breast cancer survivor, that is, and looking for a pocketed bra capable of holding a prosthetic breast form.Allan Maiden, the 28-year-old daughter of a breast cancer survivor, had hoped to change that and gathered 120,000 signatures last Janu […]
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    • Why tornadoes seem as if they're suddenly coming one after another May 20, 2013
      By Douglas Main, LiveScienceTornado season has been relatively quiet this year. There were only 72 tornadoes nationwide in April, 70 percent below the 10 year average, according to the Weather Channel. But within in the last week, tornado outbreaks have been erupting from North Texas to Minnesota.Why do these tornadoes seem to be hitting all of a sudden?An e […]
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One-in-four hackers runs Opera to ward off other criminals

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Alan Walsh

Computerworld – Hackers using multi-exploit attack “toolkits” take defensive measures of their own against other criminals, a security researcher said today.

“Exploit kit operators do use mainstream browsers, but they’re much more likely to use Opera than the average user, because they know that the browser isn’t targeted by other hackers,” said Paul Royal, a principal security researcher with Atlanta-based Purewire.

While the most generous Web measurements peg Opera, a browser made by Norwegian company Opera Software, at a 2% share of the global market, 26% of the hackers who Purewire identified use the far-from-popular application.

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