Woman posed as FBI agent to get free food from Chick-fil-A
ROCKMART, Ga. (AP) — Police have jailed a woman in Georgia accused of pretending to be an FBI agent to score a free fast-food meal, saying she allegedly threatened to arrest restaurant workers if they didn’t serve her a complimentary bite.
Kimberly Ragsdale, 47, of Dallas, was charged Thursday with impersonating a public officer following repeated attempts to get free meals at a Chick-fil-A, according to a Rockmart Police arrest report obtained by news outlets.
Employees at the restaurant told investigators that Ragsdale showed up at the location multiple times during the week and posed as a federal agent while driving a white minivan, and also threatened to take employees into custody if they didn’t comply, the police report said.
It added that the woman continued the farce as police arrived to arrest her in the restaurant parking lot Thursday, reportedly claiming to officers that she was an FBI agent and that her credentials were electronic. While being handcuffed, she allegedly began to “talk into her shirt like she was talking into a radio telling someone that we were arresting her and to send someone to Rockmart PD,” officers wrote in the arrest report.
“You will not hear a real officer demand a meal anywhere,” Chief Randy Turner told news outlets. “If it is given, we appreciate it. If it is discounted, we appreciate it. We will not ask for it or make threats and demand it.”
Ragsdale was booked into jail Thursday and released on $3,000 bond by Saturday, online jail records showed.
It was not immediately clear whether the woman had an attorney who could comment for her.
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Teacher, 25, jailed for sex with teen boy student ‘who considered mutilating his genitals to ward off her advances’
Fay Mcrobbie began sexually grooming the boy who would go on to consider genital mutilation when she was a 25-year-old teacher at a school in Berkshire, England.
During the teacher’s sex-abuse trial, the Reading Crown Court learned how Mcrobbie methodically mutilated the boy’s innocence. First she forced him to join her martial arts class, where she kissed him. Next she went all in on his genitals and robbed him of his virginity at the house of a friend.
So distraught and helpless was the boy in the face the teacher’s demands, he went so far as to consider genital mutilation so that he would be less sexually desirable to her.
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CDC suggests Americans have Thanksgiving outside
The Center for Disease Control suggested Americans who are hosting Thanksgiving dinners have their meals outside to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
The public health agency gave a number of other suggestions about how to celebrate Thanksgiving safely in updated guidance about the holiday.
In addition to an outdoor meal, the CDC said hosts should limit the number of guests they invite, talk to guests before they arrive about how they plan to celebrate and to limit the number of people in food preparation areas.
“If sharing food, have one person serve food and use single-use options, like plastic utensils,” the guidelines state.
The guidance also suggests other typical recommendations to stop the spread of the virus, such as wearing a mask and checking travel restrictions if you plan to travel over the holiday.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said on MSNBC last week that Americans will need to make a “risk assessment” when celebrating Thanksgiving.
“You really need to make a decision,” Fauci said.
“Do I want to put that person at an increased risk by having people coming in from all parts of the country, usually in a crowded airport, without necessarily knowing if they’re infected, without having time to get tested or time to do quarantine?” he added.
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New coronavirus lockdown in Greece requires people to text authorities before leaving home
Under a second nationwide coronavirus lockdown in Greece, people will need to text authorities if they want to leave their homes.
The lockdown will start at daybreak Saturday and last until the end of the month. With infections surging across the country, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he acted before patients overwhelm hospitals.
“We must stop this wave,” Mitsotakis said Thursday. “I chose once again to take drastic measures sooner rather than later.”
As part of the lockdown, all retail stores except those selling essential items such as food, medication and fuel will be closed.
Travel inside the country will be severely restricted.
People will only be allowed to leave their homes for work, physical exercise or medical reasons and only after sending a text message to authorities.
Travel inside the country will be severely restricted.
People will only be allowed to leave their homes for work, physical exercise or medical reasons and only after sending a text message to authorities.
In the texts to the five-digit number, people will have to provide their name, address and the reason why they need to leave their home.
Permissible reasons also include taking children to school, taking a pet for a walk and visiting people who need assistance, according to Sky News.
When people venture out, they will be required to carry identification and a form detailing their reason for leaving home if they aren’t able to text.
During the new lockdown, kindergartens, primary schools and all grades in special education schools will stay open. High schools will operate via remote learning.
The country’s borders will be open, but anyone arriving from abroad must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test, Civil Protection Deputy Minister Nikos Hardalias said.
Health authorities in Greece recorded 2,556 new coronavirus cases and a record 34 deaths on Saturday.
During the pandemic, the country has had 54,809 confirmed cases and 749 deaths.
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TikTok star Zoe Laverne apologizes for kissing her 13-year-old fan
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A 19-year-old TikTok star is facing backlash after a leaked video showed her kissing a 13-year-old fan when they “just ended up catching feelings for each other.”
Zoe Laverne, who has nearly 18 million followers on the app, apologized in a livestream this week for her actions but denied “grooming” the young fan and fellow TikToker, Connor. The Post is withholding his last name due to his age.
“I didn’t groom Connor, I wouldn’t do that. He’s a kid and I’m aware of that. It just happened,” she said in the stream, according to Business Insider. “We both were in a dark place when we first became friends and we both just ended up catching feelings for each other. And friends do that, they catch feelings for each other. That’s not a bad thing. Yes, the age is a bad thing. Yes, it’s wrong. Yes, it’s not good. We both realized that and we stopped.”
Connor, who goes by @cxnnorjoyce on the app and has over 350,000 followers, frequently collaborates with Laverne in her videos. However, Laverne says they have since ended their friendship.
A few weeks ago, messages between a former friend of Laverne’s and her ex-boyfriend leaked, in which her former pal called Laverne’s interactions with Connor “pedophilia.” Later, videos leaked on social media that appeared to show the two kissing.
In a statement posted to Instagram stories, Connor said Laverne “did not rape” him.
Laverne said she told Connor’s mother about the kiss after it happened, according to screenshots that appear to be taken from her private Instagram account. “She wasn’t happy obviously but she understood that we are both teenagers and that feelings can be caught.”
The TikTok star’s own mother has defended her daughter’s actions. “Anybody can reach over and kiss somebody. They’re best friends,” she said in a livestream.
Both Laverne and Connor have subtly addressed the scandal in TikTok videos. A few days ago, Connor posted a video of him strutting with the text “me coming back to social media acting like nothing happened.”
Laverne posted a similar clip, titled, “me coming back to TikTok after I get canceled for the 100th time.”@zoelaverne
Indiana mom sentenced to prison for smuggling $30K to support ISIS
An Indiana mom was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for helping her husband and brother-in-law join ISIS by providing $30,000 in gold and cash to the terrorist organization.
Samantha Elhassani, 35, smuggled the cash, as well as gold that she melted down to look like jewelry, over three trips to Hong Kong between November 2014 and April 2015 — knowing the funds would be used to support the extremist group, the Justice Department said.
At that time, “she knew that her husband and brother-in-law had expressed an interest in joining ISIS and that they intended to use these resources to support ISIS,” federal prosecutors said.
Shortly after the trips, Elhassani moved her family, including her 7-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter, from Elkhart, Indiana, to Syria.
For the next two years, the family lived in Raqqa, where Elhassani had two more children — including one who appeared in an ISIS propaganda video threatening to attack the West, the BBC reported in March 2018.
Elhassani had claimed that her husband Moussa, a Moroccan national, tricked her into traveling to the Islamic State.
He was killed in an airstrike while fighting with the terror group.
When the Islamic State collapsed, Elhassani fled Syria with her children, and was captured by Kurdish forces, before being handed over to US law enforcement authorities in July 2018.
“We repatriated Elhassani from Syria because every nation is responsible for holding its citizens accountable and addressing the future threat they may pose,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers said in a statement.
Last November, Elhassani struck a plea deal in which federal prosecutors agreed to drop more serious conspiracy charges against her, for which she would have faced decades behind bars.
US District Court Judge Philip P. Simon on Monday sentenced Elhassani to the prison term, as well as three years of supervised release.
“Once again, the Justice Department has held accountable an individual who turned her back on her country to support a terrorist organization,” Demers said.
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The Queen attributed Princess Diana’s failed marriage to bulimia struggles: report
Queen Elizabeth reportedly held some closed-minded thoughts regarding Princess Diana’s struggles with bulimia and even wondered whether they were what caused her relationship with Prince Charles to deteriorate.
The claim came forward in a book by Andrew Morton titled, Diana: Her True Story – in Her Own Words and according to its excerpts, the Queen blamed Princess Diana’s bulimia for ending her marriage.
The book in question was reportedly written in accordance to hidden tapes that the Princess of Wales would send of Mr. Morton during some of her lowest moments.
People magazine picked one of the princess’s reported confessions and explained how the princess’s bulimia initially began as a result of Prince Charles’s snide comments on her figure.
According to the report, “Princess Diana recalls the prince saying, ‘Oh, a bit chubby here, aren’t we?'” before pinking her waist. This was what allegedly ended up “triggered off something in me.”
Even royal author Ingrid Seward admitted, “[Diana] was bulimic” in her documentary titled Fergie Vs Diana: Royal Wives at War. Reportedly, “The queen always said she’s like a nervy racehorse and said treat her with kid gloves. Later on they blamed the failure of Diana’s marriage on her bulimia which wasn’t really the case at all.”
Another royal expert also chimed in during Seward claim and added how Princess Diana “was unsure of herself and she was very emotional. The royal family are not used to people who emote.”
“You don’t do that; you have a stiff upper lip. If you wish to cry you go to your room and do it there but Diana wasn’t that sort of person. She showed her emotions, she couldn’t help it.”
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FBI: Hackers stole source code from US government agencies and private companies
FBI blames intrusions on improperly configured SonarQube source code management tools.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has sent out a security alert warning that threat actors are abusing misconfigured SonarQube applications to access and steal source code repositories from US government agencies and private businesses.
Intrusions have taken place since at least April 2020, the FBI said in an alert sent out last month and made public this week on its website.
The alert specifically warns owners of SonarQube, a web-based application that companies integrate into their software build chains to test source code and discover security flaws before rolling out code and applications into production environments.
SonarQube apps are installed on web servers and connected to source code hosting systems like BitBucket, GitHub, or GitLab accounts, or Azure DevOps systems.
But the FBI says that some companies have left these systems unprotected, running on their default configuration (on port 9000) with default admin credentials (admin/admin).
FBI officials say that threat actors have abused these misconfigurations to access SonarQube instances, pivot to the connected source code repositories, and then access and steal proprietary or private/sensitive applications.
Officials provided two examples of past incidents:
“In August 2020, unknown threat actors leaked internal data from two organizations through a public lifecycle repository tool. The stolen data was sourced from SonarQube instances that used default port settings and admin credentials running on the affected organizations’ networks.
“This activity is similar toa previous data leak in July 2020, in which an identified cyber actor exfiltrated proprietary source code from enterprises throughpoorly secured SonarQube instances and published the exfiltrated source codeon a self-hosted public repository.”
Forgot problem resurfaces in 2020
The FBI alert touches on a little known issue among software developers and security researchers.
While the cyber-security industry has often warned about the dangers of leaving MongoDB or Elasticsearch databases exposed online without passwords, SonarQube has slipped through the cracks.
However, some security researchers have been warning about the dangers of leaving SonarQube applications exposed online with default credentials since as far back as May 2018.
At the time, data breach hunter Bob Diachenko warned that about 30% to 40% of all the ~3,000 SonarQube instances available online at the time had no password or authentication mechanism enabled. https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=ZDNet&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=996767433007550466&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Farticle%2Ffbi-hackers-stole-source-code-from-us-government-agencies-and-private-companies%2F&siteScreenName=ZDNet&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=550px
After @zackwhittaker covered EE leak, I ran a couple of queries on Sonarqube. Shocked to see more than 3K+ instances available, with roughly 30-40% of them set without auth, and almost half of those containing source code with prod data. Big names involved, another area to cover. pic.twitter.com/tKBRLOYzq1— Bob Diachenko (@MayhemDayOne) May 16, 2018
This year, a Swiss security researcher named Till Kottmann has also raised the same issue of misconfigured SonarQube instances. Throughout the year, Kottmann has gathered source code from tens of tech companies in a public portal, and many of these came from SonarQube applications.
“Most people seem to change absolutely none of the settings, which are actually properly explained in the setup guide from SonarQube,” Kottmann told ZDNet.
“I don’t know the current number of exposed SonarQube instances, but I doubt it changed much. I would guess it’s still far over 1,000 servers (that are indexed by Shodan) which are ‘vulnerable’ by either requiring no auth or leaving default creds,” he said. https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=ZDNet&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-1&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1295718019814096907&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Farticle%2Ffbi-hackers-stole-source-code-from-us-government-agencies-and-private-companies%2F&siteScreenName=ZDNet&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=550px
The source code of @novasolutionsys has been published on a public repo.
Among the contents there are the mobile application source codes of Mexican banks like:
– @Citibanamex
– @BancoSabadellMX
– @BanCoppel
The data was allegedly taken from a misconfigured SonarQube instance. pic.twitter.com/yn48OrtWFI— Bank Security (@Bank_Security) August 18, 2020
To prevent leaks like these, the FBI alert lists a series of steps that companies can take to protect their SonarQube servers, starting with altering the app’s default configuration and credentials and then using firewalls to prevent unauthorized access to the app from unauthorized users.
Minneapolis eyeing outside police to help with violent crime, officer shortage
Officials in Minneapolis are considering bringing in police from other jurisdictions as the city faces a shortage of officers and a wave of violent crime, according to a report on Monday.
Officers from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office and Metro Transit Police would form Joint Enforcement Teams and primarily respond to violent 911 calls, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
If the initial proposal is approved by the City Council and Mayor Jacob Frey this week, the teams would form on Sunday and run through the end of the year.
“We’re not gonna be having these people out taking bicycle theft reports. These are going to be people out combating crime issues,” said John Elder, a spokesman for Minneapolis police.
The proposal comes as an unusually large number of officers in Minneapolis have left the force following the death of George Floyd in the city on May 25, according to the paper.
Floyd died after an officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, which ignited a wave of protests and riots throughout the country this year.
After his death, the left-leaning City Council members pushed to disband the Minneapolis police department, as activists in other cities aimed to defund the police.
The unrest, in addition to the departures, has strained the department’s resources, and some officers have filed PTSD claims, according to the Star Tribune.
The city has also seen a wave of violent crime, with 74 homicides recorded this year.
The proposal to bring in outside officers will come before the council’s Policy & Government Oversight Committee on Tuesday, the paper reported. If it passes, a final vote will likely be held on Friday before it goes to Frey for approval.
The mayor supports the plan, according to his office. It’s estimated to cost just under $497,000.
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Chicago woman snuck onto flight without ticket to see Jay-Z
A Chicago woman skirted several layers of security and somehow boarded a plane at O’Hare International Airport without a ticket, hoping to fly to Los Angeles to see rapper Jay-Z, prosecutors said.
Yaazmina Payton, 23, was arrested at the Chicago airport early Sunday after she was identified as the woman who “boarded an airplane without proper documentation,” police said in a statement.
Prosecutors told a judge Monday that Payton was caught ducking under ropes at a Terminal 3 boarding door near the ticket gate of an American Airlines flight destined for Los Angeles when someone alerted a ticket agent, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Payton — who couldn’t provide a ticket or a boarding pass for the flight — was arrested “without incident” and later charged with felony criminal trespass, police said.
After her arrest, Payton told investigators she pushed past a gate into a secure area at the airport when Transportation Security Administration officers were distracted, the Tribune reported.
Payton, of Chicago’s Marquette Park section, has PTSD and anxiety disorder, her court-appointed attorney told a judge during Monday’s hearing.
Assistant State’s Attorney Jocelyn Schieve told a judge that Payton also confessed to storming past another security checkpoint and claimed she was trying to get to Los Angeles to see Jay-Z.
A judge ordered Payton to be released on $500 bail. She was also banned from returning to O’Hare, the Tribune reported.
A TSA spokesman told The Post Tuesday that Payton had been “successfully screened” by its agents before she entered a secure area at O’Hare.
“The safety and security of all travelers are our top priority,” spokesman Sonny Lorrius said in a statement.
American Airlines reps at O’Hare requested police assistance for a “possible security issue” during the incident, a spokeswoman for American Airlines told The Post in a statement Tuesday.
“The flight departed to LAX after law enforcement searched and cleared the aircraft for departure,” according to the statement, which referred additional inquires to Chicago police.
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