D Tuesday, October 6, 2009 METRO Miss Universe Ireland Diana Donnelly gets her dancing boots on for the Virginia Pumpkin Festival in Virginia, Co Cavan, over the October Bank Holiday, featuring the famous pumpkin weigh-in Picture: Patrick Bolger cavan a gourd time 3.8m of illegal smokes seized A LORRY packed with 3.8million worth of smuggled cigarettes has brought to 25million the value of illegal tobacco stopped by Customs so far this year. The 10.59million Gold Classic smokes were recovered after a lorry and container marked bedroom furniture from Egypt was checked at Dublin Port on Friday and tailed by Customs and garda to Dundalk overnight. Leak-prevention manual is leaked BRITAINS Defence Ministry has been left red-faced after its internal guide to preventing information leaks appeared on the internet. The Defence Manual Of Security, which was released on Wikileaks website, sets out tactics for preventing Chinese and Russian intelligence services from using blackmail or hi-tech gadgets to obtain sensitive information. School bus catches fire FORTY-SEVEN students escaped unhurt from a school bus fire yesterday morning thanks to the fast thinking of the bus driver. The secondary students were on their way to Ballinakill, Co Laois, when the driver noticed smoke belching from the back. He evacuated all the youngsters safely before using a fire extinguisher on the engine. While driving the bus to a safer spot, the engine went on fire again. Bus ireann, which had contracted the 00-reg bus from a local private operator, has launched an investigation into the incident. 10,000 Hotmail passwords hacked and posted onlineBy jOe sInClaIrHOTMAIL users were yesterday urged to change their passwords after 10,000 of them were report- edly posted online. The Windows Live Hotmail account details were apparently posted by an anonymous user on a code- sharing site. The details were probably gained through a hack or phishing scam, it added. The address list starts at A and goes through to B, suggesting there could be more lists. Microsoft, which owns the e-mail service, said it had not yet been able to confirm the report, but it was actively investigating the situation. Technology blog neowin.net reported that an anonymous user had last week posted the details of Windows Live Hotmail accounts on pastebin.com, a site used by developers to share code. Neowins Tom Warren wrote: The details have since been removed but Neowin has seen part of the list posted and can confirm the accounts are genu- ine and most appear to be based in Europe. The list details over 10,000 accounts starting from A through to B, suggesting there could be ad- ditional lists. Currently it appears only accounts used to access Microsofts Windows Live Hotmail have been posted, this includes @hotmail.com, @ msn.com and @live.com accounts. Microsoft said: Were actively investigating the situation and will take appropriate steps as rapidly as possible, it said. Microsoft is committed to pro- tecting the privacy of our customers and believe they deserve to have their personal data used only in ways they have agreed to, and in ways that pro- vide value to them. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html