Paul Hoynes reports: MLB is requesting that risque pictures of Indians center fielder Grady Sizemore be removed from the Internet site that posted them Sunday. As of early Monday afternoon the pictures were still posted along with MLB’s request from its Department of Investigation to remove them. Sizemore told The Plain Dealer on Sunday night…
Category: Breaches
TX: Teacher charged with breach of computer security
From staff at the Austin American-Statesman: A Southwest Austin middle school teacher was arrested last week for breach of computer security, according to school district police. School district police arrested Covington Middle School teacher Robert Brent Scott, 42, on Nov. 23, saying he accessed the computer of his ex-wife, also a school district employee, to…
NV: Metro admits to improper release of criminal history data
J. Patrick Coolican reports: At least 12 Metro employees have been found since 2005 to be improperly accessing and disseminating criminal history information for reasons unrelated to police work, according to a Metro filing in a recent lawsuit. Given Metro’s roughly 6,000 employees, that means one in 500, or 0.2 percent, have been caught improperly…
WikiLeaks releases 573.000 pager intercepts from 9/11 2001
From Wikileaks.org: From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks will release over half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. To foster a deeper understanding, the messages…