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A judge issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for aBartlett woman who had tried to collect on an insurance policy by claiming her husband was an FBI agent killed in the line of duty.
Bridgette Buckner, 50, failed to appear at her sentencing hearing in DuPage County court, where earlier this summer she had pleaded guilty to insurance fraud.
In court Tuesday, Judge John Kinsella asked Buckner attorney Matthew Hachigian where his client was.
“I wish I could tell you, your honor,” Hachigian replied.
Kinsella issued a no-bond warrant for Buckner, meaning that she will be held without bail should authorities find her.
Buckner also failed to appear in Cook County court last week to face a 14-count indictment for identity theft brought by the Illinois Attorney General’s office. Assistant Attorney General Anshuman Vaidya said the Cook indictments allege Buckner used fake identities to charge goods and services.
In DuPage, Buckner was charged after she submitted a fake death certificate for her husband in September 2008 in an attempt to obtain $15,000 in workplace insurance benefits, just five months after collecting on the same policy for the death of her child.
At the time, Buckner worked at Hallmark Services, a health insurance administrator that is part of the Blue Cross system. The two claims aroused the suspicions of corporate security officials, who questioned Buckner, who, in turn, told the story of her FBI agent husband being shot to ...

A phone-hacking scandal centered on Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp cost Britain’s top policeman his job and renewed questions on Monday about Prime Minister David Cameron’s judgment. In another major development in a scandal that has shaken Britons’ faith in the police, press and political leaders, detectives arrested Rebekah Brooks, former head of News Corp’s British newspaper arm, on suspicion of intercepting communications and corruption. The flame-haired Brooks, who once edited the News of the World tabloid, was released on bail at midnight on Sunday, about 12 hours after she went to a London police station to be arrested, her spokesman said. Brooks has denied any wrongdoing. Analysts said the gathering pace of heads rolling had turned up the heat on Cameron and Murdoch over their handling of the scandal, with the media tycoon due to be questioned by parliament in a possible showdown on Tuesday.

Security firm was able to recover 76 out of 100 user names for apps tested

The majority of mobile apps leave their users’ sensitive account data unencrypted on their phones, according to a new study.

The security firm ViaForensics examined 100 apps for Apple iPhones and Google Android phones and found that three-quarters of them, including LinkedIn, Netflix and Groupon, store app customers’ user names in plain text on their phones.

“Looking specifically at storage of user names, we were able to recover 76 out of 100 user names for apps tested,” ViaForensics wrote. “At present, providers do not appear to consider the security implications of plain text storage of user names.

Computerworld – A Maine judge’s ruling in a case involving a business that sued its bank after losing $345,000 in a cyber heist could set a precedent about how diligent companies must be in protecting their assets online.

Patco Construction Company, a family-owned business in Sanford Maine, sued Ocean Bank in 2009 after cyber crooks broke into the company’s online account and siphoned out nearly $589,000 via unauthorized Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfers.

About $243,000 worth of transfers were successfully blocked by the bank after the fraud was discovered. However, Patco was left on the hook for the remaining $345,000 — plus interest charges on more than $100,000 the bank used from Patco’s credit line to cover the illegal transfers.

In its lawsuit, Patco charged Ocean Bank with negligence and breach of contract for failing to spot and stop the unauthorized ACH transfers.

The Shaw Group Inc. was founded in 1987 as a fabrication shop in Baton Rouge, La., by Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer J.M. Bernhard Jr. and two colleagues. Driven by leaders with bold vision and a strong entrepreneurial spirit, the company has evolved into a diverse engineering, construction, technology, fabrication, environmental and industrial services organization with 27,000 employees in strategic locations around the world.

Computerworld – A Maine judge’s ruling in a case involving a business that sued its bank after losing $345,000 in a cyber heist could set a precedent about how diligent companies must be in protecting their assets online.

Patco Construction Company, a family-owned business in Sanford Maine, sued Ocean Bank in 2009 after cyber crooks broke into the company’s online account and siphoned out nearly $589,000 via unauthorized Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfers.

About $243,000 worth of transfers were successfully blocked by the bank after the fraud was discovered. However, Patco was left on the hook for the remaining $345,000 — plus interest charges on more than $100,000 the bank used from Patco’s credit line to cover the illegal transfers.

Computerworld – A Maine judge’s ruling in a case involving a business that sued its bank after losing $345,000 in a cyber heist could set a precedent about how diligent companies must be in protecting their assets online.

Patco Construction Company, a family-owned business in Sanford Maine, sued Ocean Bank in 2009 after cyber crooks broke into the company’s online account and siphoned out nearly $589,000 via unauthorized Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfers.

About $243,000 worth of transfers were successfully blocked by the bank after the fraud was discovered. However, Patco was left on the hook for the remaining $345,000 — plus interest charges on more than $100,000 the bank used from Patco’s credit line to cover the illegal transfers.

The Shaw Group Inc. was founded in 1987 as a fabrication shop in Baton Rouge, La., by Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer J.M. Bernhard Jr. and two colleagues. Driven by leaders with bold vision and a strong entrepreneurial spirit, the company has evolved into a diverse engineering, construction, technology, fabrication, environmental and industrial services organization with 27,000 employees in strategic locations around the world.

Watching the wall-to-wall royal wedding coverage on the network morning shows and cable news networks this morning, it is easy to forget that every one of them is supposedly run by a “news” division. Wall-to-wall is not figurative term but a literal one. Give the people what they want right?

But wait, a recent poll by the New York Timesand CBS found that about 28% of Americans were following the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton “very closely” or “somewhat closely,” a number that eclipses even the rosiest estimates of NASCAR fandom. Now, imagine if every NASCAR race of the past 20 years happened on the same day.

Watching the wall-to-wall royal wedding coverage on the network morning shows and cable news networks this morning, it is easy to forget that every one of them is supposedly run by a “news” division. Wall-to-wall is not figurative term but a literal one. Give the people what they want right?

But wait, a recent poll by the New York Timesand CBS found that about 28% of Americans were following the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton “very closely” or “somewhat closely,” a number that eclipses even the rosiest estimates of NASCAR fandom. Now, imagine if every NASCAR race of the past 20 years happened on the same day.

Yes, it has become fashionable to bash the saturation coverage of the royal wedding, but the the problem isn’t with the amount of coverage, or even the expense, but with what it costs us. This spectacle illustrates the degree to which profit-driven “giving the people what they want” has undercut journalism’s true purpose.