Following a cyber attack by hacker group “Anonymous” last week the Boston Police Department took down their website www.bpdnews.com. As we told you in a post last week, the group gained access to the server hosting the website and defaced the front page. While an official investigation into the attack was occurred, and while administrators [...]
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Abandoned Backpack Prompts Bomb Squad Response
An unattended back pack was left in front of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on Summer Street. No one in the area could identify the back pack or who had left it behind. Out of concern that the bag could contain a dangerous device, the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad was called to the [...]
Beating Death Marks Second Murder
This post has been updated since originally posted. See bold area below. Just after 9 o’clock Boston Police began to receive several 911 calls reporting an assault inside an apartment at 1049 Tremont St in the city’s Robury neighborhood. Initial reports indicated that a man was injured in the altercation between at least 5 men [...]
Anonymous Attacked Multiple Departments
More information has come forward about the hacker group known as Anonymous’ attacks on police department websites. We learned yesterday that BPDNews.com, the official public information website of the Boston Police, had been hacked by the group. The group defaced the site and left a message including a music video offending police officers on the [...]
Boston PD Prepares for Superbowl
Preparations by the Boston Police are in full swing for Sunday’s Superbowl face off between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. Although the game is being played all the way in Indianapolis, Indiana the BPD are taking steps to make sure that fans remain orderly and safe following the game. From past [...]
BPDNews.com Hacked
The Boston Police have confirmed that their public information website www.bpdnews.com was hacked earlier today. The malicious attack on the website took down the department’s content and replaced it with a music video degrading towards police. At this time the website is still down while the BPD technical staff works to fix the issue. In [...]
Former Mayor’s Wake and Funeral to Bring Traffic Concerns
Kevin White, mayor of The City of Boston from 1968 through 1984, passed away on January 27th. Services in memory of the former mayor will be held in Boston on January 31 and February 1 and are expected to cause some traffic delays. A public viewing for Mayor White will be held in the Parkman [...]
Occupy Boston Keep BPD Busy Again
In what organizers called “a show of solidarity”, a group of around 100 people gathered in Copley Square around 7 pm Sunday night. The group had gathered to show their disagreement with how protesters in Oakland CA had been treated according to a post on their official website. The group marched from Copley Square to [...]
Unidentified Gas Makes Several Ill
Around 1:30 am Sunday emergency officials were called to a multifamily building on Codman St in the city’s Dorchester neighborhood when residents began feeling ill. Boston Police, Fire, and EMS responded to the address and evacuated the residents from the building at number 10. EMT’s evaluated more than 10 patients who would need to be [...]
Man Struck by Car and Then Shot
An odd sequence of events took place on Harold Street in Roxbury Friday afternoon when a man was struck by a car and then shot by an occupant of the car. The unidentified victim, reported to be in his early 20′s, was riding a bicycle down the street when he was struck by the vehicle. [...]
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