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Kaine has appointed an eight-member panel to dissect the Tech shootings and recommend steps to prevent similar calamities. - Reported by Michael Sluss WEDNESDAY, April 25, 3:34 p.m. Police officers climbing a stairwell to the second floor of Norris Hall heard a final gunshot as Seung-Hui Cho shot himself in the head, ending a nine-minute spree in which he fired more than 170 rounds in the classroom building at Virginia Tech last Monday, police said today during a press conference today. Officers shot their way through a door to get into Norris Hall, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said. Flinchum said that he and Blacksburg Police Chief Kimberley S. Crannis used bolt cutters to get through one of three doors Cho had chained shut before starting his rampage.
Myanmar stepping up arrests, human rights group says
This is business as usual for them," said U Aung Zaw, the editor of Irrawaddy Magazine, an exile magazine published in Thailand. "When they are under siege, they always create such a smoke screen to keep away international pressure," he said. "They postpone, they say they are restoring normalcy, they keep arresting people." As the months have passed, the world's attention has moved elsewhere, talk of sanctions has faded and diplomats and exile groups say the junta has tightened its grip on its citizens. "People should realize they are being fooled," Aung Zaw said. The UN Security Council criticized Myanmar in mid-January for delaying the release of political prisoners and moving slowly on a promised dialogue with the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest for 12 of the past 18 years.
Merchants Urged to Reduce Risk of Data Breaches
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The consensus of speakers at the just-concluded Real Security Summit is that the future of credit card payments depends on systems that remove useable card data stored anywhere at the merchant level. "The technology exists to achieve real security by taking card data out of merchant systems," said J. David Oder, CEO of Shift4 Corporation, which sponsored the Summit. "Hackers and bad guys will always be on the attack, so the prudent approach is to minimize risk by not storing data in merchant systems." What was described by Jonathan Rusch of the U.S. Department of Justice as a "global security epidemic" is fueled by terrorist groups and organized crime turning to credit card fraud as a ready source of cash. "Terrorists are always learning and exploiting the system.
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