The social worker who was stabbed by a patient several times in the neck and shoulder at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital Thursday has died from his injuries. The suspect, who reportedly has a history of violent behavior, has since been arrested.

Update: Per Mission Local, the victim has been identified as 51-year-old Alberto Rangel, a social worker with UCSF. The outlet reports that Rangel reported concerns about the suspect three weeks before the attack.

Loved ones of Rangel's are raising funds to be donated to a nonprofit in his honor.

As the Chronicle reports, the San Francisco Department of Public Health announced Saturday that the 31 51-year-old social worker who was brutally attacked by a patient at SF General Hospital died from his injuries. Per Mission Local, the suspect, Wilfredo Tortolero Arriechi, 35, was arrested and booked Thursday on charges of “assault with a deadly weapon, mayhem, and being armed during the commission of a felony,” according to a statement by the San Francisco Police Department.

Per Mission Local, a sheriff’s deputy, who intervened and restrained the suspect, was nearby but not in the immediate vicinity prior to the stabbing. The sheriff’s department said in a statement that the deputy was assigned to shadow a doctor who had been targeted by the suspect earlier in the day. Per the SFPD, the police department has taken over the case from the sheriff’s department.

“He was onsite to ensure the doctor’s safety, remained on the Ward after an initial search for the subject, and when he heard a commotion in the hallway, immediately responded,” the sheriff’s department said in a statement. “Upon witnessing the assault in progress, he intervened without hesitation, detained the subject, and secured the scene. His quick actions allowed medical staff to begin life-saving measures for the victim without delay.”

“This tragic event underscores the urgency of our ongoing efforts to strengthen protections for every member of our workforce,” health department officials said in a statement, per the Chronicle. “We are committed to doing everything necessary to ensure that no one fears for their safety while providing care to the people of San Francisco.”

“He’s one of the kindest, most compassionate people, a luminous man,” a colleague of the victim told the Chronicle. “He loved everyone, it would of course be he who immediately stepped up to try to help the patient” prior to the attack.

Per the Chronicle, multiple employees reported receiving threats by the suspect in the weeks prior to the incident. Additionally, the Chronicle notes that the number of sheriff’s deputies assigned to the hospital have been reduced to 28 from 45 in recent years, resulting in repeated safety concerns.

“We demand that city, county, hospital, and UC leadership finally address the rampant understaffing and unjust hiring practices that put workers in danger and hinder both the city and workers’ efforts to address the mental health crisis on our streets,” said UPTE President Dan Russell, per the Chronicle. “We owe our colleague and friend more than grief. We owe them change.”

Per the Chronicle, the hospital and health department have implemented additional safety measures since the stabbing, including added security, reduced access points, and the expedited installation of weapons detection systems.

The investigation is ongoing.

Image: 9yz/Wikimedia

Previously: Social Worker In Critical Condition After Being Stabbed at SF General Hospital

As you of course know, San Francisco's LGBTQ Pride celebration is this weekend. Part of hosting the "largest LGBTQ celebration in the country," the San Francisco Police Department says, is ensuring the safety of the million-plus attendees of the various celebratory events — and this year, that means a heightened level of security and restrictions on what you can carry into various on-street events.

According to a press release sent by the SFPD, "There will be a significant police presence during Pride activities, with both uniformed and plainclothes officers on duty to monitor public events." It's safe to assume that they will also be monitoring non-events — by which I mean Pink Saturday, the once-annual Pride Saturday Castro street party that met its final demise in 2016.

"We want to remind the public that while the Castro District is open for business, there is no organized event taking place Saturday in the Castro District," police say, and "laws prohibiting possession of open containers of alcoholic beverages and drinking in public will be strictly enforced."

In terms of the Civic Center Pride Festival, police say:

• Celebrants attending the Pride festival in Civic Center will be screened by either walk-through metal detectors or handheld “wands,” and are subject to additional searches of their person and possessions. Please allow extra time to pass though security checkpoints. You can help reduce delays at checkpoints by leaving unnecessary items at home.
• Bags are discouraged. If you must bring a bag, it can be no larger than 18 inches x 18 inches. Bags are subject to search and there are no lockers for storage of oversize bags.
• Alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase inside the Civic Center venue and Pride organizers have a 100% ID check policy. No outside alcohol will be allowed into the venue and possession of open containers or consumption of alcoholic beverages is prohibited on City streets.

Police also have several tips regarding personal safety, many of which can be summed up as "Stranger=Danger." For example, attendees are urged by police to "Keep your friends close and your drinks closer. Don’t accept drinks from strangers."

Also, police say, "There is safety in numbers. Stay with a group when on the street or leaving bars and clubs. Be cautious about leaving a bar or club with a stranger. A rule of thumb is that if you feel 'unsure' about someone, rely on that instinct and do not go with that person," the last item of which seems like excellent advice for every situation, not just Pride.

*Why? Because if you're calling from a cell phone and are near a freeway, your call will likely be routed through CHP dispatch first before being sent over to SFPD. That delay can make a huge difference in an emergency.

Related: The SFist Guide To Pride 2017

Many of us have come to terms with the fact that the government is watching us all the time, around the clock, wherever we are. And a new lawsuit is accusing a BART app of adding to the unstoppable list of gidgets and gadgets that monitor our every move.

The BART Watch App was launched in 2014 to enable BART's passengers report criminal or suspicious activity to BART police. Users can even upload photos or message in real-time with law enforcement. It turns out, tho, that when the app is downloaded and set up, it collects the user's phone identification number, known as International Mobile Equipment Identity number and periodically transmits the user's precise location.

Had Albany resident and BART rider Pamela Moreno known that the app was going to access that info, reports KRON 4, she never would have downloaded BART Watch. So now she's suing BART in a lawsuit filed on Monday in the U.S. District Court in Oakland.

According to the Chronicle, the lawsuit claims that the app was "programmed the app to secretly collect transit users' unique cellular identifiers, periodically monitor users' locations, and track the identities of anonymous reporters." According to Moreno's lawyers, the app violates California's Cellular Communications Interception Act, Consumer Legal Remedies Act and constitutional right to privacy.

What does Moreno want? She wants BART Watch to stop with this info gathering and she wants unspecified monetary damages for users of the app.

@Jeanma69026400 Report smoking on the train quickly and discreetly using the BART Watch App at https://t.co/xUJXoZd7wi.

— SFBART (@SFBART) April 25, 2017

BART spokesperson Alicia Trost told ABC7, "BART does not use ELERTS system to randomly track users. An app's user location information is available only if the user selects the option to share their location information. And then, BART only receives the user's location when the user is reporting an incident."

San Francisco Business Journal reports that BART has seen an increase in robberies of 45% from last year. (We cover BART crime all the time.) Maybe the app just wants to track BART Watch users' location so they can send the cops to the right place? If you call 911, they track where you're calling from, right? That's part of the deal.

For example, say you're riding on BART and see someone masturbating which IS A THING. Then you open up BART Watch and it can pinpoint exactly where you and the masturbator are located. Or it could, until someone files a lawsuit about their privacy.

That's not to say that BART Watch is effective.

“This is a very concerning privacy breach. Consumers are generally unwilling to offer their information for this to build a database. The people of California feel very strongly about their privacy, and we are looking forward to our day in court to be able to address these issues,” lawyer Eve-Lynn Rapp told the San Francisco Business Times.

BART has 60 days to respond to the complaint. In the meantime, here's our guide to the safest and most dangerous BART stations.

Related: BART Faces Tough News Cycle With Alleged Sexual Battery, $1.2 Million Judgement, Possible Corporate Sponsors For Stations

Turkish Airlines flight 79 from #Istanbul arrived safely at SFO. Passengers learned of bombing while in flight. pic.twitter.com/QOxJ0bh9OU

— Sergio Quintana (@svqjournalist) June 29, 2016

Following a terror attack at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport Tuesday, officials at San Francisco International Airport say that security has been heightened and additional patrols planned to ensure the safety of travelers in the Bay Area.

According to the latest report from CNN, 41 people were killed and 238 injured Tuesday when three terrorists attacked the Turkish airport's arrivals hall and parking lot with gunfire and explosives. Though as of Wednesday morning no organization had claimed responsibility, "several officials said the attacks bear the hallmarks of ISIS," CNN reports.

In an emailed statement, SFO's duty manager writes that airport officials are "monitoring the events as they unfold to determine the exact nature of the incident."

"Immediately, what you can expect to see at SFO is a heightened state of vigilance, increased patrol by uniformed officers," SFO spokesperson Doug Yakel says.

ABC 7 reports that "people are certainly uneasy at Bay Area airports" following the overseas attacks, but that the FAA has already lifted a temporary hold placed on flights to and from Istanbul Tuesday.

Despite that, some local travelers were shaken enough by the attacks to change their travel plans.

"I wanted to re-rout my flights and just went to the Turkish Airlines counter and they rerouted me on Singapore Airlines," Palo Alto resident Narendra Advani told ABC 7.

Others, traveling from Istanbul to SFO, are just relieved they weren't caught in the attack.

"I was in disbelief," Istanbul resident Mina Kadigil told ABC 7 from SFO. "

I couldn't believe it because we were just there a few hours ago and I was like, if we would have missed our flight we would have still been there.".

Related: Bomb Scare At JFK's Terminal 5 Following Istanbul Attack, NYC Airports On High Alert

Happy Pride from the women of the SFPD!!! pic.twitter.com/ITyirrzc9r

— Teresa Ewins (@TLCapt) June 26, 2016

In the wake of the Orlando attacks, SF Pride organizers arranged for security screenings at the event's entry points and a San Francisco Police Department presence significant enough that multiple groups pulled out of the event, saying that they were "more afraid of police than terrorists." It will probably be a great relief to those groups that thus far, no reports have been made of violence at the hands of police officers — and arrests, at least on Pink Saturday, were actually down from last year.

According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Sargeant Michael Andraychak, the preliminary arrest numbers for Saturday in "the areas encompassing Tenderloin, Northern and Mission Commands" (aka the places most Pride action is happening) are as follows:

• Medical Calls Reported to SFPD: 5
• Public Intoxication: 11
• Misdemeanor Arrests: 5 including: 3 misdemeanor arrest warrants and 2 assaults
• Felony Arrests: 3 including: 2 felony warrant arrests and 1 case of criminal threats
• Sobering Center Patients: 12

According to last year's Saturday numbers, there were about 39 arrests, 20 medical calls, and 13 sobering center patients on the first day of Pride, alone.

Of course, there are numerous factors at play in addition to the metal detectors and cop presence: For example, the traditional Pink Saturday street party was replaced by a much smaller event at The Eagle; attendees weren't allowed to bring alcohol into the Civic Center event; and drones, which we all know are the root of all evil, were banned from flight over the celebration.

The heightened security was apparently viewed as a positive by attendees who spoke with local news outlets — one told ABC 7 "I feel pretty safe, I think that it needs to be implemented and I think it's a good idea," as CBS 5 reported that "The enhanced security didn’t mar the party atmosphere Sunday as the parade with men in glittery white wings walked on stilts and women in leather pants rode motorcycles in downtown San Francisco."

Assuming Sunday's numbers are similarly solid (they won't be released until this afternoon, Andraychak says), we can likely expect this level of security to continue in future — much to the mixed emotions of local politicians like Supervisor Scott Wiener, who told ABC 7 that "I don't like the fact that there are metal detectors going into Civic Center Plaza, but I'm not going to second guess the pride committee's decision to try to keep people safe."

After all, as SFPD spokesperson Officer Grace Gatpandan told KRON 4, “We’re not going to back down from more police, or more presence in these events."

"We’re here to keep people safe, and we’re going to do so in every way possible."

Related: (From 2015) Pride Saturday's SFPD Activity By The Numbers
Pink Saturday Officially Cancelled This Year
All Civic Center Pride Attendees Must Pass Through Metal Detector, Undergo Weapons Search
Saying They're 'More Afraid Of Police Than Terrorists,' Black Lives Matter Pulls Out Of SF Pride

#SFPD increasing patrols in transit areas/SFO in response to overseas attacks. If you see something, say something. pic.twitter.com/xJJXfKpKl4

— Albie Esparza (@OfficerAlbie) March 22, 2016

In the wake of this morning's deadly bombings at an airport and Metro station in Brussels, Belgium, local officials say that security will be increased across the city, as well as at San Francisco International Airport and on BART.

The terror attacks, which at publication time had killed at least 34 people and injured hundreds more, involved "two explosions at the city’s main international airport and a third in a subway station at the heart of the city," the New York Times reports. The first two explosions were reported at 9 a.m. Brussels time at Brussels Airport. Then, at 9:11 a.m., a bomb exploded in the last car of a subway train as left Brussels' Maelbeek station.

"At least one of the two airport explosions was touched off by a suicide bomber," the Times reports. According to the Guardian, the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee released a statement expressing sympathy for the victims, saying “On behalf of the people of San Francisco, I express our deepest sorrow for the people of Brussels after the heartless attacks carried out today. We stand with the people of Brussels and all of Belgium and stand strong against intolerance. We pray for the families of the victims of these senseless acts of violence.”

According to Lee, "San Francisco public safety agencies are closely monitoring these incidents and have reported that there is no known threat to San Francisco. However, the San Francisco Police Department is on heightened alert with extra patrols and have asked for the public’s help to report suspicious activity right away to 911."

BART spokesperson Alicia Trott echos the mayor's words, saying that though there is "no credible threat" posted for the transit system, BART police will increase their patrols.

According to KRON 4, "due to security measures BART isn’t releasing the total number of security that has been increased," but BART police "are taking all measures to ensure the safety of passengers," a duty watch commander for the transit agency says.

Down at SFO, spokesperson Doug Yakel tells CBS 5 that travelers should “expect to immediately see heightened vigilance, in the form of increased patrols” at the airport.

Yakel says that SFO is in contact with the TSA and federal law enforcement officials in an effort to determine if passenger screening procedures need to change in wake of the Brussels attacks.

In addition, San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Albie Esparza says that the police will be "increasing patrols in transit areas/SFO in response to overseas attacks."

"If you see something," Trott and Esparza both said via Twitter, "say something."

Related: NYPD Intensifies Security After Brussels Terror Attacks

Remember how we told you that officials were comparing security at Super Bowl City to that of the airport? Well, actually, it turns out it's way stricter!

The "fan village" at the foot of Market is free to the public, unless you count the time investment one must make in, per ABC7, passing through a metal detector then having your possessions searched.

But, OK, this Curbed SF post makes it sound a little fun. Besides, I've never seen Chris Isaak in concert, which as an Outer Sunsetter I feel like I should? He's playing at the SB City grand opening on Saturday (the place is open from 11 a.m. to 9 or 10 every night through February 7, when it closes for good at 3), so maybe it's worth going.

But first, I gotta get that chaw and my Karma Go out of my bag, as neither will be admitted. In fact, here's a list of all the items you are not allowed to bring onto Super Bowl City's sacred grounds:

• Bags larger than 18" by 18" in size
• Alcohol
• Bikes, pedicabs, roller skates, roller blades, skateboards, "Razor" style boards, Segway personal transports, hover boards, or any other self-propelled device
• Drones
• Coolers or containers
• Firearms, fireworks & explosives
• Sticks, rods, bars or poles of any kind [insert joke about the one up someone's ass here]
• Dangerous weapons including any type of edged weapon to include knives, impact weapons and electric pulse weapons
• Flags or banners with poles and non-approved commercial signage
• Sprays & pepper sprays
• Laser pointers
• Stunning devices
• Shopping carts
• Demonstration articles or items including tents
• Offensive weapons
• Folding chairs or lawn chairs
• Illegal drugs or substances
• Smoking cigarettes or e-cigarettes, chewing tobacco
• Radios, walkie talkies, jammers, scanners
• Portable speakers
• Wireless access points
• Hazardous and toxic materials [Sugar? Nail polish? Celery?]
• Pets and animals will not be permitted through the site during Super Bowl City opening hours except for service and support animals, such as guide dogs, assisting those with disabilities [SORRY THUNDER]
• Any item deemed inappropriate or hazardous by Super Bowl City security [So, basically, the "because I say so" security line catchall]

Previously: Entrance To Super Bowl City Will Require Airport-Like Screening
Everything else Super Bowl 50 on SFist

The FBI has certainly put us on high Super Bowl alert, with warnings of terrorists risks including the actions of "self-radicalized individuals" and "attacks on soft targets like subways." And now that alert has shifted to full-on paranoia, with the news that this week, someone stole a bunch of gear that could be conceivably used to pretend to be a BART police officer.

Bay City News reports that the theft went down in a storage room at BART's Concord station, "sometime between 2 p.m. Monday and 10:23 a.m. Tuesday." (It's that level of secure precision that makes me unable to sleep at night, BART, so thanks for that.)

All-in-all, items totaling around $1000 were stolen, including "a BART police jacket, uniform pants, boots, a gas mask, a riot helmet, custom orthotics and a radio battery."

Though BCN says that no weapons were reported stolen, that's of little comfort — we all know it's no problem for bad guys to get their hands on weapons. It's stuff like official uniforms that could be used to infiltrate a supposedly-secured situation that are harder to acquire.

According to BCN, BART realized the stuff had been stolen only after a BART cop "found the door to the storage room propped open, possibly left open by an employee." (Once again, thanks for the nightmares, BART.)

Here's where I could joke around about this sounding like something out of a Die Hard movie, but I'm having a hard time getting my funny up (commenters, I'm sure you can do better, anyway). After days and days of hearing about what a juicy target Super Bowl 50 is, this fleeting wire report makes me exceedingly anxious. Here's hoping that this was nothing more than a stupid, random theft, and that I'm totally overreacting. Maybe these things are just making me paranoid.

Previously: Get Paranoid: FBI Releases List Of Possible Ways Terrorists Could Terrorize The Super Bowl
Day Around The Bay: Get Even More Paranoid About Super Bowl Terrorism!

A new piece on The Intercept, following on a secret, annual, CIA-sponsored hacker "Jamboree" devoted to "exploiting security flaws in household and commercial electronics," suggests that U.S. spies have been intent on cracking the security guarding our iPads and iPhones for years now. The CIA declines to comment, but does this surprise anyone?

Last October, Wired published a piece titled "Apple's iPhone Encryption Is a Godsend, Even If Cops Hate It," discussing how previous version of the operating system's security encryption were made even stronger for personal information with iOS 8 — something that the market would simply demand as Apple introduces more and more highly personal stuff to their app array, like health data.

The leaked report from the conference does not state clearly how successful the teams have been in their "physical" and "non-invasive" attempts to penetrate Apple's crypto, but it sounds like they've made in-roads. There's this, for instance:

The security researchers also claimed they had created a modified version of Apple’s proprietary software development tool, Xcode, which could sneak surveillance backdoors into any apps or programs created using the tool. Xcode, which is distributed by Apple to hundreds of thousands of developers, is used to create apps that are sold through Apple’s App Store.

The modified version of Xcode, the researchers claimed, could enable spies to steal passwords and grab messages on infected devices. Researchers also claimed the modified Xcode could “force all iOS applications to send embedded data to a listening post.” It remains unclear how intelligence agencies would get developers to use the poisoned version of Xcode.

The Intercept notes that the Trusted Computing Base Jamboree has been going on since 2006, the year before the first iPhone was release. But as Wired pointed out, these debates about crypto backdoors and whether the government agencies deserved a right to them go back to the Clinton Administration of the mid-'90s.

There is perhaps a new precedent being set, here, though, according to Matthew Green, a cryptography expert from Johns Hopkins. "If U.S. products are OK to target, that’s news to me," he says. "Tearing apart the products of U.S. manufacturers and potentially putting backdoors in software distributed by unknowing developers all seems to be going a bit beyond ‘targeting bad guys.’ It may be a means to an end, but it’s a hell of a means."

Apple CEO Tim Cook said last September, with the release of iOS 8, "None of us should accept that the government or a company or anybody should have access to all of our private information. This is a basic human right. We all have a right to privacy. We shouldn’t give it up."

So, you can expect Apple has gotten their legal team on this already.

Previously: You Can Buy A $10,000 Apple Watch: Live-Blogging Today's Apple Event

Apple is having a Benghazi moment. Months before perverts worldwide celebrated the leak of nude pics of numerous noted celebrities, Apple was told that such a thing could happen —by the same security researcher who exposed security flaws in Apple's Developer Center last year.

The Daily Dot has the scoop that Apple was told iCloud had specific security problems as early as March 2014.

And just like last year, when Ibrahim Balic had to take his findings to social media in order to compel Apple into taking action, the Cupertino tech giant appears to have sat on its hands.

Balic told Apple on March 26 that he'd figured out a way to get around defenses designed to stop "brute-force" attacks, where a hacker tries to crack a password by simply trying every password combination there is. These attacks usually fail because log-ins are disabled after a few tries, but, as Balic told Apple, he found a way to try "over 20,000 passwords on any account."

Balic emailed Apple directly to tell them the news and also via Apple's online platform for reporting bugs, all to no avail. According to e-mails shared with the Dot, one Apple product security staffer was not satisfied that the brute-force attack would work and asked Balic for other methods to access accounts "in a reasonably short amount of time."

"They kept asking me to show them more stuff," Balic told the Dot.

It's important to note that the flaw Balic found is not necessarily the one used to find Kate Upton and Justin Verlander in their intimate moments. For that matter, it's still not entirely certain how Celebgate, which the crass among us call "The Fappening," went down.

Initial reports on The Next Web suggested that a malicious line of script uploaded to GitHub allowed hackers to access iCloud accounts, but after fixing that breach, Apple denied that it was the hole exploited by the celebrity nude-hunters.

Meanwhile, another batch of pictures stolen from Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna, and others hit the Internet over the weekend. Celebgate may not be over — and the leak that helped it happen may not be fixed, either.

Apple declined to comment on Balic's findings, The Daily Dot reported.

Oakland High School released disturbing video capturing the moments where a freshman with cerebral palsy, handcuffed to a wheelchair, was brutally beaten by a security guard. This student's offense? Moving too slowly to class. Marchell Mitchell, 23, was fired and charged with child abuse for cuffing, punching and dumping Francisco Martinez, 17, out of his wheelchair on Monday May 19.

The Chronicle has more:

Mitchell ordered the student to move toward his next class, but the student "either refused to comply or was slow to do so," Principal Matin Abdel-Qawi wrote in a letter to parents.

Mitchell then took the handles of Martinez's wheelchair and pushed him toward class, prompting Martinez to object and try to slap away the guard's hands, officials said. Mitchell then handcuffed Martinez and continued to roll him, and the student turned around in his wheelchair and spat in Mitchell's face, authorities said.

"The security officer then struck the student several times before dumping him from his wheelchair onto the floor, at which time another security officer intervened to restrain his partner," Abdel-Qawi wrote.

Martinez was admitted to Children's Hospital on Thursday to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries. "He slapped me. He hit me so hard, it threw me out of my chair. I hit the floor with my chin first. I had a scar right here," Martinez told KTVU Thursday night. Martinez also claims that, though not seen in the video, the guard beat and threw him to the ground in the elevator ride beforehand, telling him, "I hope you don't walk for another two or three weeks."

When asked to explain why he spat at the officer, Martinez said, "I was handcuffed. I had no way to defend myself except for my mouth."

Mitchell, who was hired by the school district after an "extensive background check," will appear in court on June 16th for a pretrial hearing.

[Chron]
[KTVU]
[CBS SF]

An anonymous group of hackers hit Twitter today and accessed an estimated 250,000 accounts. "This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident," said Twitter's director of information security Bob Lord.

Per Twitter:

This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data. We discovered one live attack and were able to shut it down in process moments later. However, our investigation has thus far indicated that the attackers may have had access to limited user information - usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted versions of passwords - for approximately 250,000 users.

As a precautionary security measure, we have reset passwords and revoked session tokens for these accounts. If your account was one of them, you will have recently received (or will shortly) an email from us at the address associated with your Twitter account notifying you that you will need to create a new password. Your old password will not work when you try to log in to Twitter.

The attack came just days after the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal were the target of cyberattacks. And, as Boing Boing reminds us, now might be a good time reset your password and disable Java in your browser. "Looks like a well-known Java vulnerability is one common link."

[Boing Boing, Reuters]

Oh dear. For those of you who use LinkedIn (side note: please explain your LinkedIn love in the comments), they've just sent word that some of your passwords have been compromised. It seems that some of the passwords were stolen, so those accounts that have been or risk the possibility of being messed with, have been reset. And according to PC World, an estimated 6.5 million passwords were posted online on a forum based in Russia. "More than 200,000 of these passwords have reportedly been cracked so far."

Vicente Silveira of LinkedIn explains:

We want to provide you with an update on this morning’s reports of stolen passwords. We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts. We are continuing to investigate this situation and here is what we are pursuing as far as next steps for the compromised accounts:

1. Members that have accounts associated with the compromised passwords will notice that their LinkedIn account password is no longer valid.

2. These members will also receive an email from LinkedIn with instructions on how to reset their passwords. There will not be any links in these emails. For security reasons, you should never change your password on any website by following a link in an email.

3. These affected members will receive a second email from our Customer Support team providing a bit more context on this situation and why they are being asked to change their passwords.

It is worth noting that the affected members who update their passwords and members whose passwords have not been compromised benefit from the enhanced security we just recently put in place, which includes hashing and salting of our current password databases.

Let this be a good reminder to update all of your passwords on a regular basis.

Part of San Francisco International Airport was evacuated a little before noon today after authorities discovered a suspicious package in a screening area. The closure shut down Terminal One, boarding area C, the Delta Airlines terminal.

“The package went through one of the X-Ray machines,” airport spokesman, Mike McCarron told CBS 5. “The operator didn’t like what they saw as far as what was inside the package, asked for assistance, and it was very suspicious.”

According to AP, "passengers are being redirected to other boarding areas, then bussed to their Delta flights...some flights have been delayed because of the lockdown." And while a very serious manner, today's SFO closure isn't nearly as interesting as what happened at JFK Airport. According to Gothamist, "An individual who had been flagged by the TSA and was asked for a secondary screening apparently walked away around 5:20 a.m., causing security to shut down Terminal 7, clear it out, and then re-screen all the passengers." This caused The View's Sherri Shepherd to go on a delightful Twitter rant.

The package and the package's owner are now under investigation. SFO has yet to open the terminal. We'll update as soon as they do.

Below, CBS 5 report:

Update: The terminal has since reopened.

Last night's meeting to discuss new security proposals for San Francisco nightclubs -- which would include ID scanning and face recording of patrons, among other things -- was postponed. Mayor Lee wanted "further analysis and study" before moving forward, reports The Examiner. While the odds of the city seeing each rule put into action are slim, that didn't stop privacy rights groups and members from voicing their concern.

PrivacyActivism, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, IP Justice, Beat the Chip, Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights, Patient Privacy Rights, and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee have publicly opposed [doc] the SF Entertainment Commission's new security proposals.

Furtther, the Entertainment Commission notes: "while the proposals are framed in terms of venues with an anticipated occupancy of more than 100 individuals, the Commission may adopt rules that apply to a different or broader range of venues."

New hearing date TBA.

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