Mark Scolforo of AP reports: A prosecution document in Jerry Sandusky’s child sexual abuse case is back online minus an attachment that named at least one accuser. The attorney general’s office received Judge John Cleland’s permission on Tuesday to seal its point-by-point review of which documents it had disclosed to his defense team. The prosecution…
Category: Breaches
Privacy Lawsuit Against Apple Moves Forward
Wendy Davis reports: Consumers who filed a class-action privacy lawsuit against Apple can proceed with their case, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in the Northern District of California set a trial date of Sept. 16 in the case, which was brought by iPhone and iPad users who allege their privacy…
Calgary Police Service found in violation of privacy act
The Calgary Police Service was in the news recently after a detective was charged with misuse of a database. Now they’re back in the news for another breach. CTV reports: … The complaint stems from an incident in March 2010, when the CPS’ HR consultant was told by the woman’s manager that several of her…
Apple engineering mistake exposes clear-text passwords for Lion
Jeremy Kirk reports: Apple’s latest update to OS X contains a dangerous programming error that reveals the passwords for material stored in the first version of FileVault, the company’s encryption technology, a software consultant said. David I. Emery wrote on Cryptome that a debugging switch inadvertently left on in the current release of Lion, version 10.7.3, records…