plaxico burress "situation" with giants "very convoluted" according to his agent.

in a run of recent sports stories that kicked off with a a few salacious leaks from joe torre's kiss and tell book, "the yankee years," which was then kicked off the front burner by the leak of alex rodriguez' steriod use during 2001-03 seasons and, in turn, was momentarily bumped aside by news of brett favre's retirement from the jets (after one lonely season) - we now read the news that plaxico's agent sent word the other nfl teams that burress is available for a trade!!

this particular news should be hilariously inconsequential in view of (a) the giants didn't give burress permission to seek a trade and (b), more importantly, plaxico next move may be from giants stadium to rikers island, if he's convicted of gun possession charges and a mandatory jail term in imposed. there is nothing "convoluted whatsoever about his situation with the giants. his accidental, self-inflicted, gunshot wound triggered the giants late season spiral into oblivion. now plaxico is set to go on trial and, if convicted, possibly serve jail time.

that his agent is already shopping him around may be great forward thinking, in his mind. coupled with the grievances filed on plaxico's behalf by the players union over the 4 game suspension and fines imposed on him by the giants for the gunshot incident, it may finally show team management that plaxico has to go (and not, as they hope, return and play for the giants down the road)!

the giants should redouble the search for their new number one receiver!!

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Heartland Data Breach: List of Victims Grows; First Arrests Made

Three FL Suspects Arrested on Fraud Charges Tied to Heartland Breach

The list of financial institutions impacted by the Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) breach now tops 220. In related news, three men in Florida were arrested earlier this week on multiple charges of credit card fraud, and some of the card numbers they allegedly used are tied to the Heartland hack.
The Leon County, FL. Sheriff's office arrested area residents Tony Acreus, Jeremy Frazier and Timothy Johns, who had allegedly used stolen credit card numbers since November, according to Sgt. Tony Drzewiecki, spokesman for the sheriff's office.

According to the Tallahassee, FL. Democrat, the suspects were running "a very sophisticated and complex criminal enterprise." Law enforcement is investigating how the three men were able to obtain credit card numbers from the Heartland breach, which was first announced on January 20.

Meanwhile, in just over a week, the number of financial institutions that have come forward to say they have been contacted by their credit card companies Visa and MasterCard in relation to the breach has jumped from fewer than 50 to more than 200.

As part of its ongoing coverage of the case, BankInfoSecurity.com on Thursday asked institutions to contact the site if they had been affected by the Heartland breach and didn't appear on the latest list of impacted institutions. More than 60 came forward, and institutions continue to identify themselves today. Some of these institutions have reported fraudulent use of the stolen card numbers. One bank in Arkansas said nearly 70 customer cards were counterfeited and used to make charges in Texas, Florida, and Louisiana beginning in mid December. Another institution in Maine reported fraud from stolen card numbers was nearly $70,000.

Heartland, the sixth-largest payments processor in the U.S., says that its processing systems were breached in 2008, exposing an undetermined number of consumers to potential fraud. While Heartland and the credit card companies remain tight-lipped about the total number of institutions and card account numbers involved, Heartland has said that, at the time of the breach, it processed an average of 100 million transactions per month for more than 250,000 different retailers and merchants.

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Fitna - see it here.

Fitna - the Dutch film by MP Geert Wilders. Warning this film contains graphic images. The film considers Islamism to be abhorrent to modern liberal democracies, and considers it as malignant as Nazism and Communism.

The House of Lords saw it last night. This film is the excuse given by the British government, supported by the so called Liberal Democrats, to ban Geert Wilders from promoting it in the UK - because he was branded an "extremist" and "peddling hate". Of course he was peddling hate - hatred of Islamism, not Muslims.

Maybe Muslims who are offended by this film might spend time focusing on attacking those who they say are damaging their religion, they might wage war against those they know who incite violence and hatred - and stop wondering why the rest of the world is scared when a segment of Islam so openly seeks to wage war on us all.

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Valentines Day E-Cards Warnings

Valentines Day E-Cards Warnings

Watch our for fake valentines day e-card emails and the like hitting your inbox from scumbag spammers today and tomorrow / Sunday.

“The amount of Valentine’s Day-related spam we’re seeing this year is 50 percent higher than last year,” Adrian Duigan, product marketing manager at Web and e-mail security vendor Marshal8e6, told InternetNews.com.

It seems Valentines Day, like most popular events, is a top target for spammers wanting to infect your computer with malicious code that can let the spammer steal your credit card information and the like.

As they always do around this time of year, spammers are sending out e-mails with subject lines containing keywords such as “Valentine’s Day,” “February 14,” “Love,” or claiming the recipient has received a Valentine’s Day card. These e-mails contain links that either serve up advertisements or redirect the victim to another site where malware is downloaded to take over the victim’s computer.

And it’s not just your email inbox Valentines Day Spammers are targetting. They’re targetting your social media profile pages too.

For last minute types (whoever they may be), probably best to stick to flowers and chocolates and give Valentines E-Cards a miss this Valentines Day and tell your other half you won’t be sending anything via email.

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