Sentences with phrase «of hoax bomb»

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A nearly six - hour standoff in Columbus Circle ended Thursday morning when a suicidal man wearing a red helmet suspected of tossing a hoax bomb into a police vehicle was taken...

Cuomo most recently traveled to Israel following an outbreak of anti-Semitic events in the United States and New York, including hoax bomb threats aimed at Jewish targets such as the Anti-Defamation League.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Brooklyn on Thursday said he plans to visit a Jewish museum that received a bomb threat, part of a rash of hoax threats leveled at Jewish targets in New York and around the country.

Wave after wave of bomb threat hoaxes have been called into Jewish Community Centers across the country in recent weeks.

New York City school officials received the same bomb threat early Tuesday that prompted the closure of the Los Angeles school system, but police quickly concluded that it was a hoax.

On the flip side we're also seeing a rise in cyber attacks in the education and public sectors with the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the NHS making national headlines last year and more recently hoax bomb phishing emails demanding money from schools.

This includes allegations of one member of staff sending a sexually explicit photo to another staff member through the school's IT network and a teaching assistant creating a hoax bomb threat via a student's email account in an attempt to shut the school down.