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…
FBI’s Data-Mining System Sifts Airline, Hotel, Car-Rental Records
Ryan Singel reports: A fast-growing FBI data-mining system billed as a tool for hunting terrorists is being used in hacker and domestic criminal investigations, and now contains tens of thousands of records from private corporate databases, including car-rental companies, large hotel chains and at least one national department store, declassified documents obtained by Wired.com show….