From Morris News Service: Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents arrested a Commerce police officer this week on charges he ran a license plate check for personal reasons. GBI agents arrested Officer Matthew Scott Rogers, 44, on Tuesday on a single charge of criminal of invasion of privacy using a computer. Read more in the Augusta…
Category: Breaches
SpamIt, Glavmed Pharmacy Networks Exposed
Brian Krebs writes: An organized crime group thought to include individuals responsible for the notorious Storm and Waledac worms generated more than $150 million promoting rogue online pharmacies via spam and hacking, according to data obtained by KrebsOnSecurity.com. In June 2010, an anonymous source using the assumed name “Despduck” began an e-mail correspondence with a key anti-spam…
Security shocker: Android apps send private data in clear
Dan Goodin reports: Cellphones running the Android operating system fail to encrypt data sent to and from Facebook and Google Calendar, shortcomings that could jeopardize hundreds of millions of users’ privacy, a computer scientist says.In a simple exercise for his undergraduate security class, Rice University professor Dan Wallach connected a packet sniffer to his network…
Ie: Judge’s report reveals allegations that Garda used phone records to spy on her ex
Mark Tighe has an important story in today’s Sunday Times about apparent abuse by a garda of the data retention system. Unfortunately it’s behind a paywall, but I’ve taken the liberty of scanning the hardcopy and placing it here as it raises a number of fundamental questions about the safeguards which are in place against…