Robert McMillan reports that FBI Director Robert Mueller stopped using online banking after nearly falling prey to a phishing scheme: Though he stopped before handing over any sensitive information, the incident put an end to Mueller’s online banking. “After changing our passwords, I tried to pass the incident off to my wife … as a…
Category: Breaches
Will Erin Andrews Sue Marriott, Ramada?
Robert J. Ambrogi writes: The question is probably not, “Will she?” but “When will she?” On Friday, the FBI arrested 48-year-old Michael David Barrett and charged him with secretly taping ESPN sports reporter Erin Andrews in the nude and posting the videos on the Internet. Andrews’ attorneys, Marshall B. Grossman and Daniel Alberstone of Bingham…
Twitter-served court order a success, claims blogger
A blogger who convinced the High Court to allow a court order to be communicated by Twitter has said that the move was a success. Donal Blaney claims that the rogue tweeter has agreed to stop impersonating him. Blaney, a right wing blogger, took action last week against an unknown individual who had been posting…
Ted Williams’ frozen head for batting practice at cryogenics lab: book
Nathaniel Vinton reports: Workers at an Arizona cryonics facility mutilated the frozen head of baseball legend Ted Williams – even using it for a bizarre batting practice, a new tell-all book claims. In “Frozen,” Larry Johnson, a former exec at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., graphically describes how The Splendid Splinter” was…