A federal judge sentenced former Greenville County councilman Tony Trout to one year in prison on computer spying charges on Wednesday, telling the former police officer that he violated the public’s trust and should be held to a higher standard. In a tearful apology, Trout told U.S. District Judge Henry Floyd that he was wrong…
Category: Breaches
Lost in the Cloud
Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor at Harvard and the author of “The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It,” had an op-ed in The New York Times about the dangers of cloud computing. He writes, in part: The cloud, however, comes with real dangers. Some are in plain view. If you entrust…
Sweden: dramatic rise in identity theft
Cases of identity theft in Sweden have shot up by 79 percent over the past three years, a new survey published on Monday shows. In the first six months of 2009 the number of identities frozen as a result of identity theft amounted to 1,439, a 79 percent increase on the corresponding period of 2006,…
Anatomy of the Twitter attack
The Twitter document leak fiasco started with a simple story that personal accounts of Twitter employees were hacked. Twitter CEO Evan Williams commented on that story, saying that Twitter itself was mostly unaffected. No personal accounts were compromised, and “most of the sensitive information was personal rather than company-related,” he said. The individual behind the…