This may strike some as being political, but it’s not often we see someone charged with installing spyware on a spouse’s device, so here we go…. Kara Scannell reports: New York prosecutors charged Kenneth Kurson, the former editor of the New York Observer newspaper who was pardoned by President Donald Trump, with two state felonies for…
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Secret terrorist watchlist with 2 million records exposed online
Ax Sharma reports: A secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records, including classified “no-fly” records was exposed on the internet. The list was left accessible on an Elasticsearch cluster that had no password on it. Read more on BleepingComputer. The government wouldn’t respond to inquiries by BleepingComputer as to whether this was the government’s Terrorist Screening Center list, and whether…
Ex-West Penn Hospital technician gets jail for secretly recording undressed patients
Paula Reed Ward reports that Guy Caley, 53, of Canonsburg, a former medical technician at West Penn Hospital, has been sentenced to serve 11 to 22 months in Allegheny County Jail, to be followed by 10 years of probation. Caley pleaded guilty in May to 89 counts including invasion of privacy and intercepting communications. Of note,…
Supreme Court won’t block Indiana University vaccine mandate as Justice Barrett rejects student plea
Robert Barnes reports: Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday rejected a plea from a group of Indiana University students to stop the university’s requirement that all students be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Barrett, who received the request because she is the Supreme Court justice tasked with emergency petitions from that region of the country, did…