November 2006
Man used MP3 player to hack ATMs
A man in Manchester, England has been convicted of using an MP3 player to hack cash machines. Maxwell Parsons, 41, spent £200,000 of other people’s money after using the machine to read card details. Parsons plugged his MP3 player into the back of free standing cash machines and was able to use it to read data about customers’ cards. That data could then be used to ‘clone’ cards and use them for bogus purchases.
September 2006
Shopping Site Discuss Mp3 Enters Public Beta Launch
Discuss Mp3 (www.discussmp3.com), the new ‘mp3 music and downloads shopping’ site, is now in public beta trials ahead of a full launch before the end of the year. Discuss Mp3 measures the buzz around products to help people find what to buy and lets them see recommendations from friends and people they trust. Buzz is based around the actions of thousands of people and shows a genuine reflection of user activity through the number of comments, recommendations, views, edits, and blog links to the products.
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