
A digital hijacking has unfolded in Howard County.
Maryland native Joshua Samuel Aaron is being sought by the FBI for masterminding the largest online bank robbery ever, a data theft crime that affected 100 million customers and netted Aaron and his co-conspirators hundreds of millions of dollars.
A group of hackers calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army briefly took over the Baltimore Sun’s website yesterday, along with a host of other sites including the Chicago Tribune, Harvard University, National Geographic, Red Bull, and UNICEF.
There’s a flagpole in Canton that’s not like the other flagpoles. Because sometimes it flies a pirate flag.
Baltimore is the nation’s 3rd-dirtiest city; Hampden is the 15th-hippest neighborhood. These seemingly random rankings gain heft and authority from the magic of numbers otherwise known as statistics. And now you, too, can benefit from the wonder of NEVER BEFORE SEEN statistics with the help of the smarties at gb.tc (or what was once known as the Greater Baltimore Technology Council). And yes, the schedule includes time for both “schmoozing” and a burger bar.