Wow. After two years of following a case where an ex-husband was charged with a felony for snooping on his ex-wife’s email, I just read that the case was dropped at the 11th hour. L.L. Brasier reports: Prosecutors dropped felony charges Friday against a Rochester Hills man accused of snooping in his wife’s e-mail after…
Category: Breaches
Instagram bug ‘exposed’ hipsters’ private photos to strangers
John Leyden reports: A just-patched vulnerability in Instagram potentially exposed hipsters’ private photos and more to strangers. A bug in the popular photo touch-up utility, acquired by Facebook in April for $1bn, allowed malicious users to add themselves as “friends” to individual accounts without permission and view snaps marked as private. In a security advisory, Instagram…
Father-son investigative team sentenced in fraud case after working for Hewlett-Packard
Two former private investigators were each sentenced Thursday to three years of probation for their roles in an infamous Silicon Valley spying scandal in which prosecutors said they used false identities to access the Social Security numbers and other information on Hewlett-Packard board members, employees and journalists. Read more from Associated Press on The Washington…
Artist Who Put Spyware On Apple Store Computers Thanks Apple For Freaking Out, Gets In No Trouble
Kashmir Hill writes: Well, apparently you can install spyware on the Macs in an Apple store and face no criminal penalties, as long as you were doing it for the sake of art. Last year, Kyle McDonald, a Brooklyn-based new media artist, installed software on computers at Apple stores in New York (the 14th Street…