Healthcare.gov Plagued by Security Vulnerabilities, More Silk Road Indictments, Island Off Coast of Japan Growing: P.M. Links

The Obamacare website
continues to be plagued by security vulnerabilities nearly
three months after its launch.
The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general

says his office found no evidence of widespread sexual
misconduct at the Secret Service.
The transit authority in Atlanta has
installed urine detectors to alert police when someone is
micturating in public.
Three more people have been
indicted in relation to the federal government’s case against
Silk Road.
S&P downgraded
the European Union’s credit rating to AA+.
President Obama formally
nominated Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) as the next US
ambassador to China.
Prostitutes in the Netherlands
want the same retirement tax benefits professional soccer
players get because theirs is also “hard physical work.”
North Korea
sent a threatening fax to South Korea in response to anti-Kim
protests in that country.
An island off the coast of Japan created by volcanic activity
is
growing and may survive for several years.