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El Paso police officer accused of attempted visual recording in women’s locker room

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EL PASO, Texas (El Paso Matters) — An El Paso police officer is facing felony charges for the second time in two years, with the latest charge alleging he was involved in an attempted visual recording in the women’s locker room at the police Westside Regional Command Center.

Gilberto Hilario Silva, 28, is charged with one count each of attempted invasive visual recording, indecency with a child by exposure, breach of computer security and unauthorized use or release of criminal information. The first two charges are felonies; the other two are misdemeanors or felonies, depending on circumstances.

Silva was arrested Thursday and released on bonds totaling $50,000 the same day. He did not respond to requests for comment from El Paso Matters to his phone or email address.

El Paso Matters began inquiring about Silva’s charges on Thursday, but police did not respond to requests for information. Instead, they issued a vague news release Friday evening.

The news release said that on May 1, the police Special Investigations Unit “investigated an allegation of Invasive Visual Recording that occurred in the female locker room of the Westside Regional Command Center.” 

No other details were provided. Police did not respond to questions about what led to charges of indecency with a child, breach of computer security and unauthorized use or release of criminal information.

At the time the investigation began, Silva was awaiting trial on a felony charge of assault of a pregnant person, court records show. Police did not respond to questions about whether he was on active duty and working at the regional command at the time.

The news release said he is currently on administrative leave, but police didn’t respond to questions about when the leave began. He has been an officer three years, according to the news release.

Silva was charged on March 10, 2021, with assault on a pregnant person. The felony charge was dismissed on May 31, 2022, according to court records. That was 30 days after police began the investigation into the invasive recording at the Westside Regional Command.

An indictment accused Silva of grabbing and pushing a woman he knew…

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Additional charges filed in hacking case against Former Mount Laurel police officer – Trentonian

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Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw and Evesham Township Police Chief Walt Miller have announced that a former Mount Laurel police officer who was charged in October with hacking into the social media accounts of an Evesham woman and distributing her nude pictures has been charged with victimizing multiple other women in a similar manner.

Ayron Taylor, 22, of Delran, was taken into custody on Nov. 30 and released Dec. 2 following a first appearance in Superior Court in Mount Holly. The case will now be prepared for presentation to a grand jury for possible indictment.

Taylor faces 87 new charges that accuse him of illegally accessing the social media and email accounts of 18 additional women and in several instances distributing their nude photos to people on their contact lists. The complaints allege 28 counts of second-degree crimes that include Computer Criminal Activity and Distribution of Child Pornography, which was brought against him because some of the photos he accessed were taken before the victims became legal adults. The remaining 59 counts are third degree charges including Elements of Computer Theft and other cyber-related crimes.

The investigation began in September after the initial victim contacted Evesham Township police to report that her Snapchat and Facebook accounts had been hacked by an unknown person who then sent nude photos she had taken of herself to her Snapchat contacts, messaged them to her Facebook friends, and posted them on her Facebook wall.

The investigation determined the commonality among all victims was that each one had a student email account through Rowan College of Burlington County (RCBC). The investigation further determined that Taylor illegally accessed more than 2,800 RCBC email accounts. Some of this activity occurred while he was on duty and sitting in his patrol car, utilizing personal electronic devices.

Taylor became a full-time officer in Mount Laurel after graduating from the police academy in October 2021. The department suspended him following the initial charges and began measures to terminate his employment. He has since resigned from the force.

RCBC officials have been cooperative with law enforcement…

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Wil Clark named SIU’s chief information officer

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CARBONDALE, Ill. — Wil Clark, who has served as Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s chief information officer on an interim basis since December 2021, has been named to the permanent position, effective, November 4.

Clark came to SIU as the technology services director within the Office of Information Technology (OIT) in September 2017 and has been interim chief information officer and interim director of Institutional Effectiveness, Planning and Research since last December. Clark was hired following a nationwide search.

The CIO serves as the chief fiscal and administrative officer of the OIT and participates as a member of Chancellor Austin A. Lane’s executive cabinet.

“We are excited for Wil to lead the many facets of our technology and information department,” Lane said. “He has demonstrated an ability to work with all departments to help enable their success through better and different use of technology. He will play a key role as we continue to implement Imagine 2030.”

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The CIO also provides leadership in IT and information security, including strategic planning, managing the Office of Information Technology, project management, purchasing and vendor relations. The CIO also works collaboratively with administrators, deans, directors, faculty, academic and administrative staff and students in identifying and implementing effective uses of technology and in enhancing information security.

“The opportunity to make an impact at SIU Carbondale was the most attractive aspect of this position,” Clark said. “As with many public institutions, SIU must leverage its resources, centers of excellence, reputation and skills to bring its best product in teaching, learning, research and service. My personal values align greatly with the mission of higher education.”

Clark oversees more than 80 full-time employees in the OIT in addition to 60 student employees. He has more than 25 years of experience in public sector education “aligning technology to facilitate university goals…

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Former Uber security officer found guilty of hiding major hack from regulators

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An Uber executive was found guilty of paying off hackers to hide a major data breach from the Federal Trade Commission.

A federal jury found Joseph Sullivan, the former chief security officer at Uber, guilty of obstructing the FTC from investigating a 2016 hack of the ride-sharing platform.

“Sullivan affirmatively worked to hide the data breach from the Federal Trade Commission and took steps to prevent the hackers from being caught,” said U.S. Attorney Stephanie Hinds in a press release. “We will not tolerate concealment of important information from the public by corporate executives more interested in protecting their reputation and that of their employers than in protecting users. Where such conduct violates the federal law, it will be prosecuted.”

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“The message in today’s guilty verdict is clear: companies storing their customers’ data have a responsibility to protect that data and do the right thing when breaches occur,” said FBI special agent Robert Tripp. “The FBI and our government partners will not allow rogue technology company executives to put American consumers’ personal information at risk for their own gain.”

Sullivan’s lawyers pushed back on the verdict. “Mr Sullivan’s sole focus — in this incident and throughout his distinguished career — has been ensuring the safety of people’s personal data on the internet,” said David Angeli, who represented Sullivan in court, according to Computing.

Sullivan was prosecuted over his role in a 2016 breach in which the data of 50 million users and seven million drivers was exposed, including names, email addresses, and phone numbers. Sullivan had only been on the job for a few months and assisted with an FTC investigation into a 2014 hack. However, the CSO attempted to hide the existence of the 2016 hack, telling employees that the information around it had to be “tightly controlled,” and paid the hackers $100,000 in bitcoin in exchange for them to sign non-disclosure agreements to not publicly speak about the security breach.

Uber fired Sullivan…

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