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A Las Vegas-based casino operator has sued security firm Trustwave for conducting an allegedly "woefully inadequate" forensics investigation that missed key details of a network breach and allowed credit card thieves to maintain their foothold during the course of the two-and-a-half month investigation.

In a legal complaint filed in federal court in Las Vegas, Affinity Gaming said it hired Trustwave in October 2013 to investigate and contain a network breach that allowed attackers to obtain customers' credit card data. In mid January 2014, Trustwave submitted a report required under payment card industry security rules on all merchants who accept major credit cards. In the PCI forensics report, Trustwave said it had identified the source of the data breach and had contained the malware responsible for it. More than a year later after Affinity was hit by a second credit card breach, the casino operator allegedly learned from Trustwave competitor Mandiant that the malware had never been fully removed.

According to the December, 2015 complaint:

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The administrator of the cock.li e-mail hosting service told Ars on Friday that a second hard drive had been seized from his Bavarian data center by the district attorney for the City of Zwickau in eastern Germany. As a result, he has now moved the service out of Germany and is in the process of restoring it.

cock.li's Vincent Canfield said that he had initially chosen a German data host because the country has a reputation for "good data privacy laws."

French authorities opened an investigation on Friday into an early-stage drug trial that went tragically awry, leaving one trial participant brain dead, five hospitalized, and several others with neurological disorders. Of the five hospitalized, three are suspected of having permanent brain damage.

The injured are among a group of otherwise healthy male volunteers participating in a phase I drug trial, which began in June. The trial was testing the safety of an oral medication made by Portuguese drug maker BIAL.

In a statement, BIAL described the drug as a pain medication, specifically an FAAH enzyme inhibitor, but the company provided little other details. Early reports by media suggest that the test drug may be compound BIA 10-2474, which BIAL describes as designed to treat “neurological and psychiatric pathologies.”

This week, Amazon China registered to become an “ocean freight forwarder” with the United States Federal Maritime Commission. That means Amazon, one of the largest online retailers in the world, would be able to subcontract companies to ship goods from China to the US.

Because this registration allows Amazon to sell shipment services, Reuters suggests that Amazon might be looking into providing logistics services for third-party companies.

A blog post by freight forwarding company Flexport notes it’s likely that Amazon China filed for this freight contracting registration because Chinese sellers are more enthusiastic about finding American buyers than American sellers are about finding Chinese buyers right now. In addition, American companies shipping to China wouldn’t want to share shipping data and wholesale prices with Amazon, since the company is viewed as a fierce competitor. But for Chinese companies, Amazon is less of a threat, and a freight service provided by Amazon might help them minimize costs when shipping abroad.

As Harlan Ellison once said about Disney, "Nobody fucks with The Mouse." Even if you live in Zagreb, Croatia, the long hand of The Mouse can reach in and change your birthday party plans. That's what several bakers in Zagreb discovered when they received cease-and-desist letters warning them to stop making cakes featuring popular Disney characters from Star Wars, Frozen, and more.

According to Croatian paper Jutarnji, the letters came from a law firm representing the Zagreb chain Fun Cake Factory, which has an exclusive license to make Disney-themed cakes via its partnership with British confectioner Finsbury Food Group. Ana Marcelić, a local Zagreb confectioner who received one of the cease-and-desist letters, told the paper it would be a "huge loss" for her financially and difficult to explain to customers requesting Disney-themed cakes.

Apparently Disney has been cracking down on copyright infringing cakes lately. In September of last year, the company hired a law firm to sue Michigan baker Wilson's Wild Cake Creations for making cakes that featured images of "Darth Vader and son." Julie Triedman notes in American Lawyer that Disney and LucasFilm called for the "seizure of 'any molds, screens, patterns, plates, negatives, machinery or equipment used for making' the offending images." The owners of Wilson's Wild Cake Creations filed for bankruptcy in October. That situation wasn't new. Way back in 1992, Disney threatened two Singapore bakeries with lawsuits unless they stopped making cakes based on Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

We've been hitting the tech of self-driving cars pretty heavily this week, taking a look at what companies like Audi, BMW, Ford, QNX, and Tesla are doing in the field. But it's looking more and more likely that it's not going to be the technology itself that determines when we'll be able to buy a self-driving car for that morning commute. Instead, all the other stuff—regulations, laws, insurance questions, and society's comfort level—appear ready to own the issue of timing.

At this week's North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced that "in 2016, we are going to do everything we can to promote safe, smart and sustainable, vehicles. We are bullish on automated vehicles." Still, working out how to regulate self-driving cars is far from settled. Each state (well, OK maybe every state but Maryland) has a pretty good idea of how to test young drivers to determine whether they're ready to mix it with the rest of us in traffic. Figuring out how to apply that to a car itself is proving to be more of a challenge. California, for instance, is about to hold a couple of public workshops to get input into its draft regulations on the the matter, and DMVs in other states are being told by their respective legislatures to start working on the problem. Today, there's a real fear in the industry that we could end up with a patchwork of different state laws (something Cars Technica even talked about on the radio yesterday).

Then there's the federal government, where crafting policies, regulations, and guidances can be slow work. Take recent advances in headlight technology for example. Over in Europe, you can now buy cars that use LED lasers to supplement their high-beams. Those lights are intelligent enough to avoid blinding other cars on the road, and they represent a significant safety advantage. But the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards for headlights in the US went into effect in 1968 and haven't been updated since. And because they don't make any allowances for anything other than a high beam and a low beam, such systems are illegal here in the US.

Today is Wikipedia's 15^th anniversary. The digital, collaborative encyclopedia has grown quickly and today boasts articles in hundreds of languages. Those articles are managed by 80,000 volunteers who make 15,000 edits an hour according to the site's own statistics.

Over its lifespan Wikipedia has naturally encountered its share of problems: teachers loathe it because it gives lazy students a chance to cut and paste, bias sneaks (or barges) into all manner of topics (as you might expect from a crowd-sourced fact book), and controversy is part of its behind-the-scenes culture. But from the time the site launched in 2001 to today, we've spent an endless amount of time with it. We've learned one thing for sure—Wikipedia remains a good way to get a quick summary on just about any topic you can think of. Thankfully it's also a great way to find references to more reliable sources on said topic.

To celebrate its latest milestone internally, the Wikimedia Foundation announced the launch of a new Wikimedia Endowment which will be used to support Wikipedia's continued growth. The foundation says it hopes to raise more than $100 million over the next 10 years.