Raw Story reports: The Justice Department made 763 requests for “sneak-and-peek” warrants in 2008, but only three of those had to with terrorism investigations, Sen. Russ Feingold told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. “Sneak-and-peek” warrants allow law enforcement officials to break into homes and businesses and search the premises without the investigated party…
Former Assistant District Attorney pleads guilty to unauthorized access to information by use of a computer
A former Jefferson Parish Assistant District Attorney pled guilty in federal court today to unauthorized access to information by use of computer. According to the factual basis (pdf) filed, after a near accident on I-10 near Gulfport, Mississippi, Perry Booth IV copied the license plate number of the other car. When he was unable to…
Email-stealing worm slithers across LiveJournal
Dan Goodin reports: LiveJournal’s security team has disabled some media features on the blogging site after a quick-spreading worm stole user email addresses and caused entries designated as private to be available to everyone. The self-propagating exploit spread to users who were logged in and did nothing more than view a LiveJournal posting that was…
EPIC Reminds Homeland Security Agency to Publish Privacy Report
From EPIC.org: In a letter to the Chief Privacy Officer of the Department of Homeland Security, EPIC asked when the annual privacy report will be made available. The Department is required by law to provide an annual report “on activities of the Department that affect privacy, including complaints of privacy violations, implementation of the Privacy…