Owen Fletcher reports: The Gmail accounts of foreign reporters in at least two news bureaus in Beijing have been hijacked, a journalists’ group in China said Monday. The news comes just one week after Google said it had been targeted by recent cyberattacks aimed at accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. The…
Category: Breaches
Fixing Flores: Assuring Adequate Penalties for Identity Theft and Fraud
Janice Kephart writes: This Backgrounder proposes statutory language fixes to federal identity theft and aggravated felony language in 18 U.S.C. §§ 1028 and 1028A to reverse the practical implications of the May 2009 Supreme Court ruling in Flores-Figueroa v. United States.1 Flores crippled prosecutors’ longstanding practice of using the aggravated identity theft statute by requiring…
Polanski awarded damages in privacy lawsuit
Director Roman Polanski has won damages from a French newspaper that photographed him in the Swiss home where he is confined pending extradition proceedings on rape charges. A Paris court convicted French daily Aujourd’hui en France, with its Paris edition Le Parisien, of breaching Polanski’s privacy. It ordered the newspaper to pay 3000 euros ($A4671)…
Network Flaw Causes Scary Web Error
Jordan Robertson reports: A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of private information. The glitch – the result of a routing problem at the family’s wireless carrier, AT&T – revealed a little known…