Selfie with dead victim is “key piece of evidence” in teen murder case | Ars Technica

cache hit 73:single/related:ffb4a759485aae27047f3c90f0c6f74a empty A funeral was held Monday for a Pennsylvania teen whose alleged killer took a selfie with the dead boy after shooting him in the face. Defendant Maxwell Morton, 16. The authorities said Ryan Mangan, 16, was discovered dead Wednesday by his mother at his Westmoreland County residence. His accused attacker, Maxwell Morton,…

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The U.S. Filed More Than Half Of All Twitter’s Requests For User Info Last Year – BuzzFeed News

According to their latest update, published on their blog on Monday, there was definitely a jump in that number between the first and second halves of last year. “We’ve received ~40% more requests for account information affecting 128% more account holders during the second half of 2014 than in the previous reporting period,” Twitter said….

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Anthem Health Insurer Says Cyberattack Stole Data of Millions – NYTimes.com

Photo Outside the Anthem headquarters in Indianapolis.  Anthem said it detected a data breach on Jan. 29, and that it was working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Credit Darron Cummings/Associated Press close shareTools Anthem, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, said late Wednesday that the personal information of tens of millions of its…

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Fox, News Corp. won’t be charged over hacking | Crain’s New York Business

(Bloomberg) — Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Inc. and News Corp. said the U.S. Justice Department won’t prosecute either company after an investigation into voicemail hacking and payments to public officials in the U.K. The companies announced the decision in separate regulatory filings on Monday. “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and…

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The Cops Don’t Care About Violent Online Threats. What Do We Do Now?

I.“Hey Anna, do you like pizza?”I was just sitting down to dinner one evening this past November when I looked through some new Twitter notifications on my phone. My night, I realized regretfully, was about to get very, very stupid. The Twitter user was named “Davidkalac69,” the photo a white egg on a purple background….

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