A Fox 5 investigation exposes a worldwide ATM scam that swindled $9 million and possibly jeopardized sensitive information from people around the world. Law enforcement sources told Fox 5 it’s one of the most frightening well-coordinated heists they’ve ever seen.
Photos from security video obtained by Fox 5 show of a small piece of a huge scam that took place all in one day in a matter of hours. According to the FBI , ATMs from 49 cities were hit — including Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Montreal, Moscow and Hong Kong.
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Michael ‘Monty’ Widenius, the original developer of the open-source MySQL database, has left Sun Microsystems and is starting his own company, Monty Program Ab, he said in a blog post Thursday. Widenius and Sun had a slightly rocky relationship since the vendor bought MySQL last year for $1 billion.
In a much-discussed November blog post, he trashed Sun’s decision to give MySQL 5.1 a ‘generally available’ designation, saying it was riddled with serious bugs. Meanwhile, Monty Program Ab will be ‘a true open-source company,’ with only a small number of employees who ‘strive to have fun together and share the profit we create.’ The company will work on the Maria project, a storage engine Widenius and others developed, he wrote.’
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WordPress is by far the most popular blogging system known to man. It provides a great back-end with great flexibility and customization without having a complex management console to navigate. It powers this blog right here. Here is a number of plugins which you should take a look at, When installing or running a WordPress website.
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