The
U.S. Justice Department charges two
Vietnamese citizens (Quoc Nguyen and Giang Hoang Vu) and a
Canadian (David-Manuel Santos Da Silva) with running a massive cyberfraud ring that stole one billion email addresses, then sent spam offering knockoff software products of
Adobe Systems Inc with the hacking having occurred between February 2009 and June 2012. The victim breaches include a massive 2011 attack on email marketing firm
Epsilon, a unit of
Alliance Data Systems Corp. Although the other two are in custody, Nguyen remains at large. The charge against Da Silva is conspiracy to commit money laundering.
(Reuters)
A road accident along the highway between
Ismaïlia and Cairo in
Egypt, east of
Cairo, involving a bus that collided with a microbus kills fifteen people.
(AP)
Writing in the FIFA Weekly magazine,
FIFA president
Sepp Blatter calls Iran to end its "intolerable" ban on women attending soccer matches, describing the situation as one that "cannot continue."
(CNN)
Health
The U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the country's first
biosimilar drug,
Zarxio (Europe: 2009, as
Zarzio), made by
Novartis. Biosimilars are a relatively new class of drugs designed to pave the way for less expensive versions of the complex
biologics drug class, and they are not synthesized from chemicals like other drugs, but are made from living cells. Some well known biologics include
Remicade and
Enbrel for
autoimmune diseases, and
Herceptin and
Avastin for cancer. Zarxio, used to prevent infection in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, is a close copy of
Neupogen, made by
Amgen.
(The New York Times)
The
New Taipei City district court sentences Cheng Chieh to death for the May 2014 knife attack on a
Taipei Metro train that left four dead and 22 passengers injured.
(AP)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director
John O. Brennan announces plans for a major restructuring and reorganization, including a focus on digital espionage (through the creation of the
CIA Directorate of Digital Innovation). The plan will end some longstanding divisions, and create ten new centers that team analysts with operators, fostering collaboration and focus on a range of new security issues and threats, and replacing geographic division offices with hybrid mission centers modeled on the
CIA Counterterrorism Center.
(The Washington Post via MSN)
Customs officers at the
Shahjalal International Airport catch Son Young Nam, a
North Korean diplomat trying to smuggle an estimated
$1.4 million worth of gold into
Bangladesh. Bangladesh authorities release him but will still seek to press charges.
(Reuters)
Madison Police Department officers fatally shoot an unarmed 19-year-old black teenager who was suspected of a recent battery. A struggle ensued between the suspect and an officer, and the teen was fatally shot.
(Reuters via MSN)
The
U.S. Justice Department charges two
Vietnamese citizens (Quoc Nguyen and Giang Hoang Vu) and a
Canadian (David-Manuel Santos Da Silva) with running a massive cyberfraud ring that stole one billion email addresses, then sent spam offering knockoff software products of
Adobe Systems Inc with the hacking having occurred between February 2009 and June 2012. The victim breaches include a massive 2011 attack on email marketing firm
Epsilon, a unit of
Alliance Data Systems Corp. Although the other two are in custody, Nguyen remains at large. The charge against Da Silva is conspiracy to commit money laundering.
(Reuters)
A road accident along the highway between
Ismaïlia and Cairo in
Egypt, east of
Cairo, involving a bus that collided with a microbus kills fifteen people.
(AP)
Writing in the FIFA Weekly magazine,
FIFA president
Sepp Blatter calls Iran to end its "intolerable" ban on women attending soccer matches, describing the situation as one that "cannot continue."
(CNN)
Health
The U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the country's first
biosimilar drug,
Zarxio (Europe: 2009, as
Zarzio), made by
Novartis. Biosimilars are a relatively new class of drugs designed to pave the way for less expensive versions of the complex
biologics drug class, and they are not synthesized from chemicals like other drugs, but are made from living cells. Some well known biologics include
Remicade and
Enbrel for
autoimmune diseases, and
Herceptin and
Avastin for cancer. Zarxio, used to prevent infection in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, is a close copy of
Neupogen, made by
Amgen.
(The New York Times)
The
New Taipei City district court sentences Cheng Chieh to death for the May 2014 knife attack on a
Taipei Metro train that left four dead and 22 passengers injured.
(AP)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director
John O. Brennan announces plans for a major restructuring and reorganization, including a focus on digital espionage (through the creation of the
CIA Directorate of Digital Innovation). The plan will end some longstanding divisions, and create ten new centers that team analysts with operators, fostering collaboration and focus on a range of new security issues and threats, and replacing geographic division offices with hybrid mission centers modeled on the
CIA Counterterrorism Center.
(The Washington Post via MSN)
Customs officers at the
Shahjalal International Airport catch Son Young Nam, a
North Korean diplomat trying to smuggle an estimated
$1.4 million worth of gold into
Bangladesh. Bangladesh authorities release him but will still seek to press charges.
(Reuters)
Madison Police Department officers fatally shoot an unarmed 19-year-old black teenager who was suspected of a recent battery. A struggle ensued between the suspect and an officer, and the teen was fatally shot.
(Reuters via MSN)