Titanic II

Titanic II is a 2010 direct-to-DVD disaster film written, directed by, and starring Shane Van Dyke and distributed by The Asylum. The film is not a sequel to the 1997 film by James Cameron, although movie website Dread Central has suggested the film may be a mockbuster of it. It was released Direct-to-TV in Australia on August 7, 2010. It premiered on SyFy on Sky Digital in the UK and Ireland on August 9 to a harshly negative critical reaction. It was released on August 24 in the United States.

Cast

Shane Van Dyke as Hayden Walsh

Marie Westbrook as Amy Maine

Bruce Davison as James Maine

Brooke Burns as Dr. Kim Patterson

Michelle Glavan as Kelly Wade

Carey Van Dyke as Elmer Coolidge

D.C. Douglas as Captain Will Howard

Dylan Vox as Dwayne Stevens

Wittly Jourdan as Elijia Stacks

Myles Cranford as Admiral Wes Hadley

Production

For the film, the RMS Queen Mary was used as a stand-in for the SS Titanic II. The ship had previously been used as stand-ins for the fictional ship SS Poseidon in The Poseidon Adventure and the actual RMS Titanic in the 1979 TV mini-series SOS Titanic.

Plot

In April 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, a new, similar-looking luxury cruise liner named the SS Titanic II is christened. She then embarks on her maiden voyage using the same route the Titanic took 100 years before in reverse direction (United States to United Kingdom).

During the Atlantic crossing, the effects of Global Warming cause the Helheim glacier in Greenland to collapse, creating a tsunami that sends an iceberg crashing into the Titanic II. The entire starboard side of the ship is crushed and immense pressure is put on the liner's turbines. As people struggle against the rising waters and run for the submarine-shaped lifeboats, the turbines eventually explode, causing an immense fire inside the listing and sinking vessel.

Hours later, another tsunami caused by a second collapse of the Helheim glacier hits the liner, flipping it upside-down and drowning the people still on board and killing the passengers in the lifeboats. With most of the ship flooded, the Titanic II finally sinks.

The two main protagonists, ship owner Hayden Walsh and nurse Amy Maine, survive, having stayed aboard the ship instead of going for the lifeboats as Amy's father, U.S. Coast Guard Captain James Maine, had ordered. However, the ship's diving facility only has one oxygen tank, which Hayden gives to Amy. Captain Maine rescues them both, but Hayden dies, leaving Amy and a few passengers who got off the ship on Hayden's helicopter earlier as the only survivors of the disaster.

RSA (security firm)

RSA, the security division of EMC Corporation, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, United States, and maintains offices in Australia, Ireland, Israel, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, China, Hong Kong and Japan.

RSA organizes the annual RSA Conference. RSA's well-known products include the RSA BSAFE cryptography libraries and the SecurID authentication token.

RSA was named after the initials of its co-inventors, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman, after whom the RSA public key cryptography algorithm was also named.

Hacking

On March 17, 2011, RSA disclosed that it had been hacked. It categorised the attack on its two-factor authentication products as an Advanced Persistent Threat.

History

Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman developed the RSA encryption algorithm in 1977. They founded RSA Data Security in 1982.

In 1995 RSA sent a handful of people across the hall to found Digital Certificates International, better known as VeriSign.

The company then called Security Dynamics acquired RSA Data Security in July 1996 and DynaSoft AB in 1997.

In January 1997 it proposed the first of the DES Challenges which led to the first public breaking of a message based on the Data Encryption Standard.

In February 2001, it acquired Xcert International, Inc., a privately held company that developed and delivered digital certificate-based products for securing e-business transactions.

In May 2001, it acquired 3-G International, Inc., a privately held company that developed and delivered smart card and biometric authentication products.

In August 2001, it acquired Securant Technologies, Inc., a privately held company that produced ClearTrust, an identity management product.

In December 2005, it acquired Cyota, a privately held Israeli company specializing in online security and anti-fraud solutions for financial institutions.

In April 2006 it acquired PassMark Security.

On September 14, 2006, RSA stockholders approved the acquisition of the company by EMC Corporation for $2.1 billion.

On 2007 RSA acquired Valyd Software, a Hyderabad based Indian company specializing in File and Data Security .

In 2009 RSA launched the RSA Share Project. As part of this project, some of the RSA BSAFE libraries were made available for free. To promote the launch, RSA ran a programming competition with a US$10,000 first prize.

RSA introduced a new CyberCrime Intelligence Service designed to help organisations identify computers, information assets and identities compromised by trojans and other online attacks.

Fishburne Closes CSI

Laurence Fishburne is closing the file on his "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" career.

The actor won't be back on the CBS crime drama this fall, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday because CBS had yet to announce Fishburne's departure.

Fishburne joined the "CSI" cast as Dr. Raymond Langston midway through the 2008-09 season. He stepped in to replace departing star William Petersen.

The person says CBS and the show's producers are taking Fishburne's departure in stride, aware that his movie career made a long TV tenure unlikely.

Fishburne joined the CSI cast as Dr Raymond Langston midway through the 2008-09 season. He stepped in to replace departing star William Petersen.

The source said CBS and the show's producers are taking Fishburne's departure in their stride, aware that his film career made a long TV tenure unlikely.

CSI returns for its 12th season this autumn and continues to rank among the 20 top-rated shows.

Fishburne's credits include The Matrix films, and he is also in the forthcoming Contagion with Matt Damon.