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Bits ‘n Pieces

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Dissent

In the justice system: Diane Michelle Nicholson, a former employee of the Holladay Park Plaza retirement care facility, is accused of stealing credit cards and checks from multiple elderly tenants and patients. Read more. Dr. Lisa Michelle Barden, the physician accused of stealing patients’ identities and faking other doctors’ signatures to obtain thousands of prescription…

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EPIC asks FTC to investigate Google’s cloud computing security

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Dissent

Alexei Oreskovic of Reuters reports that EPIC has asked the FTC to investigate the adequacy of Google’s cloud computing security after a problem resulted in unintended file sharing last month. EPIC’s request (pdf) includes Gmail, Google Docs, and Picasa.

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Shell Oil web site hacked; customer data acquired

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Dissent

Radio New Zealand is reporting that Shell Oil says 1,400 of its customers in New Zealand and 4,500 in Australia have had personal details stolen by online hackers. Customers who made online applications for fuel cards were affected and their bank account details may have been stolen. The incident was the second breach reported by…

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Did The BBC break the law in its botnet report?

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Dissent

So…. did The BBC break the law when it bought and implemented a 22,000-strong botnet as part of its Click news reporting? Nick Farrell of IT Examiner reports that Sophos’ Graeme Cluely suggests that they did because the UK Computer Misuse Act makes it an offense in the United Kingdom to access another person’s computer,…

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Comcast passwords leaked onto the Web

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Dissent

Elinor Mills reports: Thousands of user names and passwords for Comcast customers was removed from document sharing Web site Scribd on Monday, two months after it was posted there. Scribd removed the list of more than 8,000 passwords and user names after being contacted by Brad Stone at The New York Times. Stone wrote that…

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Japanese court orders ISP to reveal file-leaker’s ID

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Dissent

From Daily Yomiuri Online: The Tokyo District Court has ordered an Internet service provider to reveal the name and address of a person who used file-swapping software to spread leaked private information on the Internet of about 110,000 Kanagawa prefectural high school students in fiscal 2006, it has been learned. IBM Japan Ltd., which had…

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