SAN FRANCISCO – Howard Webber, a former resident of Marin County, Calif., was convicted today by a federal jury for conspiring to use identities of others and file fraudulent income tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. The verdict…
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NZ: Ex-cop charged with misuse of computer system
NZCity reports: A former police officer has appeared in an Auckland court accused of inappropriately accessing personal information during his time in the force. The 34-year-old faces 21 counts of accessing a computer system for a dishonest purpose having appeared in Auckland District Court on Wednesday. Read more on NZCity. Can anyone explain to me…
AU: Another child protection privacy breach names more than 30 kids in care
Beau Donnelly reports: Victoria’s embattled child protection department has again been caught leaking private information – even after an internal inquiry identified a litany of breaches. Three months after the Andrews government pledged better training for staff, the Department of Health and Human Services released a file containing protected information about dozens of children in foster care….
Expert Hacks Internal DoD Network via Army Website
Eduard Kovacs reports: A security researcher who took part in the Hack the Army bug bounty program managed to gain access to an internal Department of Defense (DoD) network from a public-facing Army recruitment website. [….] Roughly 118 of the reports have been classified as unique and actionable, and participants have been awarded a total…
NYPD tech worker accused of selling officers’ personal info
Sarah Trefethen reports: An IT worker with access to NYPD personnel files released sensitive information of thousands of officers and tried to cash in on his position by selling data on individual members of the Finest, according to prosecutors. Idahosa Ighodaro, 37, an information technology administrator employed by the NYPD, was hit with charges of…
St. Louis’ public library computers hacked for ransom
WTAE reports: Hackers have infected every public computer in the St. Louis Public Library system, stopping all book borrowing and cutting off internet access to those who rely on it for computers. […] According to the library, hackers demanded $35,000 in the electronic currency Bitcoin — but the library refuses to pay. Instead, it’ll wipe…