Twitter Says All 336 Million Users Should Change Their Passwords Due to Bug

Twitter has recommended its more than 336 million users change their passwords.

The Twitter logo is displayed on a banner outside the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 7, 2013, in New York City. (Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

The company announced on Thursday it discovered a bug that saved user passwords on an internal log without proper encryption.

Twitter said it has since fixed the issue. Although the company said there is no evidence passwords have been leaked or misused, it is urging its users to update their passwords.

“As a precaution, consider changing your password on all services where you’ve used this password,” the company tweeted.

Twitter is prompting users to change their passwords via a pop-up window on the site that explains the nature of the bug and links to their Settings page.

Twitter did not specify how many passwords were stored in the internal log.

The company declined to comment on when the bug was discovered, how long it had been storing passwords in this manner and how many passwords were affected. But it reiterated to CNN “this is not a breach.”

CEO Jack Dorsey said in a tweet the company believed it was important to “be open about this internal defect.”

Meanwhile, Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal tweeted an apology for the issue.

“We are sharing this information to help people make an informed decision about their account security. We didn’t have to, but believe it’s the right thing to do,” he said.

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Shooting Reported at Mall in Tennessee; Police Responding

Police are responding to reports of a shooting at the Opry Mills shopping mall in Nashville, Tennessee, law enforcement sources told CNN on Thursday.

Check back for updates on this developing story.

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Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski Expelled From Film Academy

Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski are no longer members of one of Hollywood’s most important organizations.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the group behind the Academy Awards, has voted to expel the actor and director from its membership, according to a statement from the organization which cited its conduct standards.

“The Board continues to encourage ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy’s values of respect for human dignity,” a statement from the Academy read.

Cosby was found guilty last week on three counts of aggravated indecent assault. Although he is more strongly associated with television, Cosby was a long-time member of the Academy for his work in film but never won an Oscar.

Polanski fled the US in 1978 after being charged with statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl. He has continued filmmaking in Europe. He won the Oscar in 2003 for directing the World War II drama “The Pianist.”

No additional information was immediately available about the pair being expelled from the Academy.

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Kakuma Refugee Camp Part 4: A Will to Live

Megan Henderson was recently invited by UNICEF to go on an outreach mission to Kakuma, Kenya.

In part four of her series inside one of the largest refugee camps in the world, Megan focuses on the sense of purpose and will live shared among the thousands of residents.

You can help the children of Kakuma with a $10 donation by texting KTLA to 864233. Contributions can also be made at ktla.com/unicef.

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Jessica’s Mother’s Day Gift Guide With Gilt City

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Police Ask for Help in Finding Missing 13-Year-Old Boy Last Seen Near South L.A. Home

LAPD officials are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing 13-year-old boy from South Los Angeles.

Daniel Marquis Bell is shown in a photo released by the Los Angeles Police Department on May 3, 2018.

Daniel Marquis Bell was last seen taking out trash in an alley near his Leimert Park home on Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

He was described as having black hair, brown eyes and a light complexion. He is about 5 feet tall and weighs 98 pounds, police said. He was last seen in the alley on 2825 West Vernon Avenue wearing a red sweater, red shirt, black white and gray camouflage pants and blue slippers.

Daniel was described as being a straight A student who has not been diagnosed with a mental illness.

Anyone with information about the boy’s whereabouts can call LAPD southwest area detectives at 213-485-2585 or 213- 485-2196.

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Costa Mesa Joins Opposition to California Sanctuary State Law

At a contentious City Council meeting Wednesday night, Costa Mesa became the latest Orange County community to declare its official opposition to Senate Bill 54, the so-called sanctuary law that provides expanded protections for immigrants who have entered the country without permission.

Opponents and supporters of California’s Senate Bill 54 crowded the Costa Mesa City Council meeting on May 1, 2018. (Credit: Kevin Chang / Daily Pilot)

The 3-2 vote to adopt a resolution against SB 54 prompted cheers and chants of “USA! USA!” from opponents of the law, who waited in City Hall until roughly 1 a.m. for the council’s vote.

Mayor Sandy Genis, Mayor Pro Tem Allan Mansoor and Councilman Jim Righeimer voted in favor of the resultion. Council members Katrina Foley and John Stephens cast the dissenting votes.

Opponents of the resolution responded with cries of outrage.

Read the full story on LATimes.com. 

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Consumer Confidential: High Home Prices Drive 1M People Out of CA, More Businesses Open to Hiring Pot Smokers, 2 Hotel Chains Getting Rid of Shampoo Bottles

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Chief Beck Talks Search for New LAPD Chief, LAPD Pension Program, LAPD Officers in Trouble, Homeless Arrests Increase

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Giuliani’s Statements About Trump Catch White House Communication Officials Off Guard

Rudy Giuliani’s cable rollout as a member of President Donald Trump’s legal team, and the torrent of statements he made Wednesday night, caught many in the White House off guard and flat-footed, highlighting the continued chaotic nature of the President’s communications strategy.

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani stands with president-elect Donald Trump before their meeting at Trump International Golf Club in New Jersey on Nov. 20, 2016. (Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Giuliani told CNN Thursday he and Trump are in sync.

“You won’t see daylight between me and the President,” Giuliani said in an interview. “The strategy is to get everything wrapped up and done with this so that it doesn’t take on a life of its own.”

The former New York City mayor said he spoke to Trump before and after his explosive announcement on Fox News Wednesday night when he said the President had reimbursed his attorney Michael Cohen for the $130,000 payment to the porn actress Stormy Daniels.

But Giuliani conceded that White House officials were caught off guard by his comments.

“They were, there was no way they wouldn’t be,” he told CNN Thursday. “The President is my client, I don’t talk to them.”

Case in point: White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley had pre-taped an interview with Fox News Wednesday that was set to air in the 11 p.m. ET hour. But after Giuliani announced Trump had in fact paid back Cohen for the hush money payment, Gidley had to return to the studio for a live interview.

Gidley told Fox host Shannon Bream that he had “no idea of the topics of the show” and referred questions to the President’s outside counsel.

“I’m not an attorney,” Gidley told Bream. “I just work at the White House.”

Taken aback

Several White House officials were also taken aback by Giuliani’s dramatic interview Wednesday night. One remarked that Giuliani undermined the administration’s entire defense strategy when it came to not just Daniels, but also former FBI Director James Comey and the special counsel, all in the span of a single interview.

One senior White House official told CNN that Giuliani’s performance came off as “clumsy” to them.

Two White House officials told CNN managing the situation is now out of their control, with several others pointing to how Giuliani and Trump have their own conversations before Giuliani goes on cable news, further proving that the President is his own communications director.

A source familiar with the conversation confirmed that Trump was not at all upset about Giuliani’s performance.

In an apparent sign of his support, Trump reiterated Giuliani’s comments Thursday morning in a stunning string of tweets where he said he had paid a monthly retainer to Cohen, which he said meant the payment could not be considered a campaign contribution or finance violation. He also denied having an affair with Daniels.

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Driver Crashes Into Home, Lands on Truck After Losing Control of Vehicle in Riverside

An out of control driver slammed into two parked cars and a home before eventually landing on top of a pickup truck during a violent crash in Riverside late Thursday night.

A driver had to be extricated from a crashed vehicle in Riverside on May 2, 2018. (Credit: OC Hawk)

The crash occurred near the intersection of Comer and Mission Inn avenues, City of Riverside Fire Department Battalion Chief Tony Perna said.

A witness said the vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed about 11:15 p.m. when it failed to navigate a turn and ended up driving through a yard.

The vehicle collided with the side of the home, then struck two parked cars before landing on top of another vehicle in a front yard, Perna said.

A man inside the home heard the crash and came outside.

“This car was laying on top of my new truck,” said the man, who was getting ready to go to bed before the crash occurred.

The driver was extricated using the Jaws of Life before being taken to a local hospital for treatment. No word on the driver’s condition was immediately available.

The extrication was made more difficult because the vehicle was elevated and needed to be stabilized before the patient could be removed, Perna said.

A resident inside the home struck by the vehicle said glass and part of a wall broken in the crash would have landed on his grandmother had she been in her bed at the time.

Officials determined the structure was OK following the crash.

The cause of the crash was under investigation.

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Backers of California Privacy Ballot Initiative Submit Petition Signatures

Proponents of a measure that would require companies to disclose the data they collect from consumers will submit signatures Thursday on petitions to qualify the initiative for the November ballot, paving the way for a heated battle over privacy.

In this photo illustration the Social networking site Facebook is displayed on a laptop screen/ (Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The initiative would require businesses to inform customers of what personal information they are gathering from them and give them the option to opt out of having that data sold or shared to third parties. It also would increase fines and penalties for companies that fail to protect the data against breaches.

Rick Arney, co-author of the proposed California Consumer Privacy Act, said support for the measure widened when federal officials opened an investigation into how a data firm, Cambridge Analytica, accessed the personal information of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge to help elect President Trump.

Amid the scandal, Facebook halted its financial contributions to the campaign opposing the measure. But a representative from the company still called it flawed.

Read the full story on LATimes.com. 

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Celebrating Cinco de Mayo with El Torito

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LAPD Chief Beck Calls for Change to Controversial Retirement Program

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck acknowledged a need to reform a controversial pension program that pays city police officers and firefighters nearly double at the end of their careers while allowing them to take lengthy injury leaves, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck speaks to reporters during a news conference last fall. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

In remarks at a budget meeting this week, Beck said concerns about injury leaves for those in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan — better known as DROP — were “well-founded” and expressed support for changing the policy to “de-incentivize” taking injury leave while in the program.

“Unfortunately, when the program was crafted 15 years ago, that wasn’t done,” Beck said of DROP.

Beck’s remarks were in response to a Los Angeles Times investigation that showed that nearly half of DROP participants in the previous decade missed work while in the program because of injuries ranging from cumulative ailments like carpal tunnel syndrome and high blood pressure to a fall from a defective office chair.

Read the full story on LATimes.com. 

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Alleged Golden State Killer to Appear in Court as Attorneys Seek to Halt DNA Collection

The former California police officer believed to be the Golden State Killer is to appear in court Thursday as his lawyers seek to block prosecutors' efforts to collect more of his DNA in their investigation of 12 murders and more than 50 rapes in the 1970s and 1980s.

Joseph James DeAngelo, the suspected “Golden State Killer,” appears in court for his arraignment on April 27, 2018, in Sacramento. (Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

A public defender for Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, has asked a Sacramento court to stop prosecutors from taking more fingerprints, DNA evidence and photos of the defendant's body because their search warrant was obtained before his arrest and arraignment last week.

In the separate motion, prosecutors argued that the evidence they are seeking is not "testimonial in nature" and that the search warrant must first be challenged before the judge who issued it.

Decades after a crime spree that sowed fear in communities throughout the state, authorities last week tracked down the suspect by comparing genetic profiles from genealogy websites to crime scene DNA, according to prosecutors.

DNA from a crime scene was matched to genetic material from a relative who was registered on genealogy sites, and authorities later obtained a discarded sample of DeAngelo's DNA.

DeAngelo, a former police officer, Vietnam veteran and a mechanic, was a reclusive neighbor in Citrus Heights, a town about 16 miles northeast of the California capital, according to residents.

In the early 1970s, DeAngelo worked as a police officer in Exeter and Auburn, California. Authorities have said some of the alleged crimes of the Golden State Killer overlapped with DeAngelo's time as a police officer.

DeAngelo was fired from his law enforcement job in 1979 for shoplifting a can of dog repellent and a hammer from a drugstore.

He then lived what appears to be a quiet life. He worked as a mechanic at the distribution center of a Modesto-based supermarket chain for 27 years until he retired last year, a spokeswoman for the company said.

Neighbors have said DeAngelo mostly kept to himself and sometimes yelled at people who got too close to his fence, but they said he had become a recluse in recent years.

Speaking in a feeble, barely audible voice and sitting in a wheelchair, DeAngelo appeared in court last Friday but did not enter a plea to the murder charges he faces in the 1978 deaths of Katie and Brian Maggiore.

The defendant is "depressed and right now, fragile," defense attorney Diane Howard said last week. DeAngelo spoke only a few words at the hearing, telling the judge he would accept a court-appointed attorney.

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Images From the Library of Congress at the Annenberg Space for Photography

Gayle Anderson was in live Century City at the Annenberg Space for Photography to see the FREE new exhibition “Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America’s Library. "

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Text, Spin & Win- Thursday May 3, 2018

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