user: Clear Care contact lens solution may burn eyes, group says

Bottles of Clear Care now include a red warning to alert consumers about the hydrogen peroxide solution. (ISMP Canada)

Users of Clear Care contact lens solutions have experienced severe pain and burning in their eyes after confusing the liquid with regular contact lens solution, a Canadian safety group says.

Unlike most contact lens cleaners, Clear Care contains three per cent hydrogen peroxide. It is not meant to be used directly in the eye or to rinse contact lenses.

Rather, the product should be used with a special case to neutralize the hydrogen peroxide in a solution that is safe for the eyes.

"Too many consumers have suffered from corneal burns because they did not realize that this solution is different," David U, president and CEO of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada said in a release on Monday.

"The Clear Care package and bottle resemble those of typical multi-purpose solutions, but Clear Care contains hydrogen peroxide, which is harmful if it comes in contact with the eye."

In April 2013, Health Canada asked manufacturers of contact lens solutions containing three per cent hydrogen peroxide to update their labels to highlight the risks of improper use.

Despite new warnings on the outer and inner labels of Clear Care products, ISMP said it received a report to its website, SafeMedicationUse.ca, about a consumer who suffered severe pain from a corneal burn.

The group's recommendations for consumers include:

It also suggests that vendors not store contact lens solutions containing hydrogen peroxide beside multi-purpose solutions.

ISMP Canada said the manufacturer and Health Canada have been informed of the reported incidents.

summary: Users of Clear Care contact lens solutions have experienced severe pain and burning in their eyes after confusing the liquid with regular contact lens solution, a Canadian safety group says.

Eight dead after earthquake hits Spain

It was preceded at 5:05 p.m. (11:05 a.m. ET) by a 4.5-magnitude temblor centered in the same area, the survey said.

At least one of the deaths occurred in a building collapse in Lorca, state-run EFE said.

Television pictures showed the belfry of an old church collapsing soon after the earthquake, as well as fallen bricks on top of damaged cars there. Buildings with broken windows and piles of rubble in the streets of Lorca could also be seen.

The press office said a hospital in Lorca had been evacuated as a precaution.

Many of those who were spending the night outside said they were afraid to return to their houses or had been advised not to do so, state radio said.

The quake occurred during an election campaign for Spain's 8,000 town mayors and most of its regional governments, with voting scheduled for May 22. The two major parties called for a suspension of campaigning on Thursday out of respect for the victims.

summary: Thousands of residents of the southeastern Spanish city of Lorca slept outside Wednesday night, hours after the city of about 80,000 was struck by an earthquake that killed eight people, state radio

Celebrity Nude Photo Hacking: Should You Be Worried?

Perhaps nobody. "We don't know if they were truly taken from iCloud or, for example, just Photoshopped by someone looking for publicity," said Carl Howe, vice president of data sciences for the Yankee Group, an information technology research company.

If you believe the still-unknown hacker or hackers, more than 100 celebrities had personal photos harvested, some of them explicit — with more photos to come. Jennifer Lawrence's publicity team called the alleged pictures of the Oscar winner "a flagrant violation of privacy" and promised prosecution, while Mary Elizabeth Winstead said on Twitter that photos of her were ones the singer and actress thought she'd deleted herself.

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The FBI said Monday it's "aware of the allegations concerning computer intrusions and the unlawful release of material involving high profile individuals, and is addressing the matter." Meanwhile, Apple Inc. — whose cloud storage service many of the photos appeared to have come from — said it's "actively investigating" the claims.

That hasn't been nailed down, but there are three main theories. One is what's known as a social engineering attack — the hacker or hackers simply "guessed a celeb's password or got it from a friend," Howe said.

The second theory involves what's called a brute-force attack. Announcement of the leak came very quickly after a team of developers revealed on tech forums that they'd found a bug in Apple's Find My iPhone service allowing anybody who learns your username to simply keep entering hundreds or thousands of passwords until he hits Bingo.

But "I think it's safe to say that this was not done with a brute force hacking tool," Moorhead said as further details of the photos emerged Monday, including data that indicated they were squirreled away not just on iCloud, but also on other popular online storage services.

The theory of Moorhead and several other experts consulted by NBC News is that the alleged hack probably started somewhere else, likely on an e-commerce site — somewhere "where somebody used the same login for another service where other photos were kept," Moorhead said. Once the hacker had an email address and either a username or a password, he or she could have gone to any one of a number of sites and used the "forgot my login" feature to get access to that site — and very likely several other sites, because the painful truth is that most people use the same login information for most of their online activities, security experts said.

Millions of people and companies upload their most sensitive data to services like iCloud and Dropbox in "the cloud" — enormous online servers that you access as though they were your own hard drive. That way, "you can always have a backup if your computer is lost or stolen," said Mark Rasch of Rasch Technology and Cyberlaw, who's a former director of the Justice Department's Computer Crime Unit.

summary: The celebrity photo hack highlights that our faith in Internet security isn't always answered. Here's what we know and what we don't know.

Lookery to be Advertising Network for Facebook Apps

Scott Rafer, the man behind MyBlogLog and WiFinder, is getting ready to launch Lookery, an ad network for Facebook applications.

Lookery will be an ad network that’s designed specifically for the publishers of Facebook applications. Sales are already taking place for ads, and Lookery is scheduled to go live in the coming weeks. No word on the details of how this ad network will be formated, but we’re definitely anxious to see how it plays out. Given the structure of the Facebook applications platform and how it already fits into existing Facebook profiles, it’s a prime set-up for the development of an ad network.

Though 30Boxes has already launched fbExchange, an ad network for Facebook apps, we’re still curious to see the end result of ad networks on Facebook. Considering user feedback surrounding the inclusion of ads or even the newsfeed, I’m not too sure how the users will feel about an ad network being tied up with any applications. After malware was found on a Facebook Flyer ad, everyone will need to be more aware of potential security issues that applications and ads could bring about. Regardless of user and security issues, having a Facebook app ad network sounds like something marketers could be excited about, as everyone figures out how to best leverage and monetize these applications.

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assistant: Scott Rafer, the man behind MyBlogLog and WiFinder, is getting ready to launch Lookery, an ad network for Facebook applications. ...