And you people wonder why they tried to switch the internet off. Khosrow Zarefarid, an Iranian software manager, warned Iran’s banks’ CEOs of a security flaw in the banking system. When nobody responded, Khosrow hacked 3 million accounts across 22 banks, then dropped these details — including card numbers and PINs — on his blog.
A group of scientists in South Korea has developed the world’s first completely autonomous prison guard. Far from being a glorified Roomba, the robo-guard was “designed to study human behavior, the robot is able to detect abnormal prisoner activity and report back to its controllers.” Click through for the video.
KONY 2012 Deadline Is Today – It’s the movement that captured the globe’s imagination. And after two films, more than 100 million followers and one very public meltdown, tonight’s the night the KONY 2012 movement is set to explode. But will it? [heraldsun] Photos Of Secret Service Prostitutes Revealed – The Daily News published the first photos of […]
South Africans have reacted with shock and disbelief over the tragic passing of bodyboarder David Lilienfeld earlier today. He suffered fatal injuries at popular surfing spot, Koeël Bay, near Gordons Bay. A 2oceansViber alerted us to a recent video, featuring David and some of his friends. Watch it inside.
Welcome to another week of sports betting fun! This week, for a mere R182, you could enjoy riches of up to TEN GRAND! Don’t forget that one weekend where you lot took home R600k worth of winnings on the 2oceansvibe Multiple bet? Hooowhaah! Read up on that here if you missed it. You would have worked out […]
Check it out – fresh footage of a chopper flying over to the other side of Signal Hill to fill up with water from the Atlantic Ocean – just outside the Sea Point pool. These pilots are highly skilled individuals. Press play to check it out.. https://youtu.be/Z8ptPGUguuc [thanks nick]
Only a few hours have passed since Camps Bay bodyboarder, David Lilienfeld was fatally attacked by a Great White shark in Koeelbaai, near Cape Town. Less than two days ago, 2oceansvibe Reported the controversy around the awarding of filming permits to documentary film makers, who were chumming the water off the Cape Coast in a bid to attract Great Whites for tagging and filming purposes. At the time, Alan Boyd of the Department of Environmental Affairs defended the permits. Moments ago, in the wake of the tragedy, Boyd cancelled them.
A bodyboarder has suffered fatal injuries at popular surfing spot, Koeël Bay, near Gordons Bay, earlier today. Due to the nature of the location, medical air rescue services were still on their way to the scene, but members of the bodyboarding community were expressing their shock at the loss of the individual across social networks.
When Vusimuzi Silwanyan’s daughter was brutally murdered last week he left it to local police to deal with the matter. After they failed to make headway in the case he took matters into his own hands, and apprehended the killers in just five days.
If you don’t know who Men at Work are, I suggest you go and sit in the corner and slap yourself around a bit. They were around in the 80’s and produced some great hits like “Who can it be now?”, “Overkill” and the legendary “Down Under”. One of their members, Greg Ham, has just been found dead in Melbourne.
A reader has sent us a video called, “Wakeboarding: Boss Level”. The description under the footage reads: “No swimsuit. No rope. No driver. No problem.” I don’t need to say anything else, apart from formally welcoming our latest addition to the 2oceansVibe Boss Hall of Fame!
Signs suggest that Facebook is looking to have its initial public offering launch on on May 17th, assuming that the Securities & Exchange commission rubber-stamps all of the social network’s paperwork – including documents concerning Facebook’s recent billion-dollar acquisition of Instagram. Facebook is set to be initially valued at around $100 billion.
With the sad news that this season will be the last of the popular medical drama, House, it’s good to know that the cast members are at least moving on with their lives, and adding their voices to the many causes out there. This includes posing for PETA, which a female cast member has done. Can you guess who?
Steve Jobs once said, “Why join the navy when you can be a pirate?” The internet has changed everything, mostly for the better, but it’s also made it easy to steal stuff. So what makes a pirate on the cyber seas? In this episode Seth gets out his eye-patch, peg-leg and parrot and tries to […]
The fashion talk and images at popyacollar have long placed it in the leading position amongst SA fashion blogs – especially when it comes to true fashionista style (vs. bottled Edgars catalogues). The ‘Street Style‘ pics are a firm favourite and I just had to show you this rad pic taken on the streets of […]
Earlier this week, space shuttle Discovery took its final flight, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to Dulles International Airport, on the back of a 747. That’s a space shuttle piggybacking on a jumbo jet, and it was awesome. Click through for the video.
The driver of the blue light vehicle which knocked Thomas Ferreira off his motorcycle last year will be criminally prosecuted. The case will be of particular interest to Ferreira’s family, who nursed Thomas through a coma of several weeks and a slow and costly rehabilitation following the accident.
The problem with winning the lottery in Illinois, is the law states you can’t remain anonymous. Which is shit for the people who won, but great for us – because we get to look the subject of our jealousy in the eye. Meet Merle and Patricia Butler, who bought one of three winning tickets to […]
But the miners he left jobless at Aurora mines will not get a cent from him. The embarrassment for the Zuma and Mandela family names continues as Zondwa Mandela’s assets are expected to be attached next. Mandela has been charged with fraud, too.
Oscar Pistorius has been named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2012. He is the only South African on the list. See who he shares it with, and what the magazine had to say about him, after the jump.
Mitch Hurwitz, Arrested Development creator, has revealed that the long-mourned show will be premiering it’s 10-episode fourth season in one huge lump on Netflix’s Watch Instantly feature in 2013. You’ve got a year to come up with a plausible excuse to spend a day off from work to watch the entire season.
Pick n Pay’s Profits Fail To Meet Expectations – South Africa’s number two food retailer Pick n Pay missed expectations after it reported a 15% fall in full-year profit on Wednesday, hit by costs related to its shopper loyalty programme and investments in its supply chain. [mail&guardian] Gang-Rape Video Asks Questions Of Media – The media’s use […]
Spain’s King Juan Carlos finally issued an apology this morning for the hunting trip he took to Africa recently where he shot live game on a private reserve in Botswana, including elephants. The scandal might never have come to light if he hadn’t had an accident during the trip and had to be taken back to Spain for emergency hip surgery.
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If you’ve never survived a plane crash only to be pursued by a pack of bloodthirsty wolves whilst bracing a bitter Alaskan blizzard, tired, afraid and hungry… you need to see The Grey. It may not be as informative as Man vs. Wild with Bear Grylls, but it’s fascinating in a White Fang meets Alive kind of way.
These may be the three most terrifying words you read today: Mayor Kim Kardashian. The reality TV star has stated that she wants to run for mayor in 2017, “for real.” Whether or not she fully grasps the gravity of such an office is unknown, but it should promise to be an amusing campaign, if nothing else.
Capitec shares rose to close at a new high of R214,76 yesterday. The bank also recently announced a dividend of 300c per share, showing why it isn’t surprising that analysts have happily placed “buy” recommendations on the stock.
This morning we told you about the horrible incident that saw a group of boys in Soweto kidnap and gang-rape an underage girl on camera. Concerns were even higher, as the girl featured in the video was reported missing as well. The good news is that she has reportedly been found alive and is currently at the Dobsonville police station.
Yesterday NASA managed to capture the clearest-yet footage of a solar flare in process after magnetic fields on the Sun’s northeastern curve exploded in huge streams of plasma and sun stuff. The footage only accounts for about five seconds of explosion, but it’s very, very cool, both in and out of time-lapse.
It’s hard to find a success story in the spiralling shit storm that is practically everything to do with the SABC these days, but SABC3 have bucked the trend a little, reaching into TV history for a programme that is turning their ratings nosedive around – and you’ll never guess who it is!