Pinterest Hacked Accounts Spill Spam Onto Facebook, Twitter

Double-check your Facebook and Pinterest accounts to see if you have been hacked. 

There was very good advice in one of the comments: "Check the URL to help prevent phishing. Use SSL/TLS to help prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. Make sure anti-virus is up to date to help prevent payload deployment.. Even all of those can be bypassed using various techniques!"

Pinterest Hacked Accounts Spill Spam Onto Facebook, Twitter

City of Lincoln, Nebraska tells cell providers to pay up

The City of Lincoln, Nebraska, still had a pending case against SprintPCS for failure to pay about $800,000, which is the amount alleged is owed under Lincoln's 6% occupation tax, for the years 2005 to 2009.

Lincoln tells cell providers to pay up | Local News - KETV Home

Illustrated Court Filing in Oklahoma

Actual court filing by an attorney in Oklahoma. Apparently, the attorney thought that humor and illustrations were the best way to win his motion.

cdn.abovethelaw.com/uploads/2012/09/Smoot-response.pdf

Fired NYPD officer blames ticket quotas for fake summonses

"A cop who was canned for ticketing dead people says he was doing it to meet the NYPD’s supposedly non-existent monthly quotas."

Fired NYPD officer blames ticket quotas for fake summonses - NYPOST.com

Restauranteur sets up fake sex site profile to revenge bad review

Restaurant owner sets up a fake sex site profile and sends lewd e-mails to get revenge against a customer who posted a bad review of the restaurant. Canadian Judge finds restaurant owner guilty of libel.

Lessons to be learned: If you serve the public remember people have a right to express their opinions about the service they receive. You cannot make everyone happy all of the time and its really foolish to try.  If someone says bad about you most of the time you just have to let it go.


Sun News : Restauranteur sets up fake sex site profile to revenge bad review

Police seizure of text messages violated 4th Amendment, judge rules | Ars Technica

Rhode Island Judge rules text messages were illegally seized under the 4th Amendment when the police did not obtain a warrant. The Judge held, "It is objectively reasonable for people to expect the contents of their electronic text messages to remain private, especially vis-à-vis law enforcement."

This is somewhat contrasted by a federal Judge in Illinois that held that "sniffing" open wi-fi networks is not illegal wiretapping. This Illinois case seems to run counter to a 2011 decision, which is on appeal, suggesting  Google may have violated the law when its Street View cars intercepted fragments of traffic from open WiFi networks around the country.


Police seizure of text messages violated 4th Amendment, judge rules | Ars Technica

In re INNOVATIO IP VENTURES, LLC PATENT LITIGATION, Dist. Court, ND Illinois 2012

Police: Man nabbed in Lowe's toilet theft scam

Alternative headline: "Alleged Thief 'Flushed' When He 'Goes' To Cashier To Return Stolen Toilet"

Police: Man nabbed in Lowe's toilet theft scam - Local News - Pittsburgh, PA - NBCNews.com