Gordon Smith reports: People posting apparently innocuous information on social networking sites could leave themselves open to identity theft, a computer security conference heard this week. Presenting a keynote address at the RSA conference in London, People Security’s chief security strategist Hugh Thompson said that while posting on social networks has grown, “there hasn’t been…
Category: Breaches
Former federal worker sentenced for passport snooping
Grant Gross reports: A former employee at the U.S. Department of State was sentenced to 12 months of probation Friday for illegally accessing more than 75 confidential passport application files, the U.S. Department of Justice said. William Celey, 28, of Washington, D.C., was also ordered to perform 50 hours of community service by U.S. Magistrate…
Crypto spares man who secretly video taped flatmates
Dan Goodin reports: An Australian man who set up an elaborate network of hidden cameras to spy on his flatmates has escaped jail time after police were unable to crack the encryption scheme protecting his computer. When police raided the residence of Rohan James Wyllie, they found found a series of peepholes drilled into the…
School had no right to read messages on student’s cell phone, family say
Eric Been reports: Owensboro High School violated the Constitution by confiscating a student’s cell phone after it slipped from his pocket during class, and expelling him because of the text messages that school officials read on it, the student’s family claims in Federal Court. The student, identified only as G.C., says his teacher confiscated his…