Nine people have been indicated in federal court on charges they accessed President Barack Obama’s student loan records while employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa. The U.S. attorney’s office says a grand jury returned the indictments Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Davenport. The nine individuals are charged with exceeding authorized computer…
Category: Breaches
Articles of note
The May issue of the Minnesota Law Review has the papers from a 2009 symposium on cyberspace and the law. Here are some of the articles in this issue, courtesy of Concurring Opinions: Jane E. Kirtley, Mask, Shield, and Sword: Should the Journalist’s Privilege Protect the Identity of Anonymous Posters to News Media Websites?, 94…
Yelp Security Hole Puts Facebook User Data At Risk, Underscores Problems With ‘Instant Personalization’
Jason Kincaid writes: As if Facebook’s Instant Personalization needed another knock against it, tonight comes news of a security issue that makes the feature even more unnerving. Web security consultant George Deglin discovered an exploit that would allow a malicious site to immediately harvest a Facebook user’s name, email, and data shared with ‘everyone’ on…
Twitter confirms awkward ‘auto-follow’ bug
Carolyn McCarthy reports: It’s been a Monday of social-media security embarrassments: Twitter has confirmed the existence of a bug that can force one user to follow another. The bug appears to have originally been noticed by a Turkish blog, followed by the blog Webrazzi, which successfully tested it out and forced the Twitter accounts of…