Walt Buteau reports: A terminated veteran East Greenwich firefighter pleaded no contest in a case involving missing data used to repair and maintain the emergency alarm system that protects town-owned buildings and commercial property, the Target 12 Investigators have learned. Robert Warner, 43, of Warwick, entered the plea in Kent County Court on Tuesday to…
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MD Anderson ousts 3 scientists over concerns about Chinese data theft
Todd Ackerman reports: MD Anderson Cancer Center is ousting three scientists in connection with concerns China is trying to steal U.S. scientific research, the first such publicly disclosed punishments since federal officials directed some institutions to investigate specific professors in violation of granting agency policies. MD Anderson took the actions after receiving e-mails last year…
Morrisons granted permission for Supreme Court appeal over data breach ruling
Sebastian McCarthy reports: Morrisons has been granted permission to appeal to the Supreme Court after losing a major court case over a data leak. In October the UK’s fourth-biggest supermarket lost an appeal against a High Court ruling that concluded the firm was legally liable for a former employee leaking personal information about 100,000 staff…
Man convicted in Dubai for hacking 15 websites
Ali Al Shouk reports: A man was sentenced to three months in prison followed by deportation for hacking the server of a media company which was responsible for 15 client websites, a Dubai Court of First Instance heard yesterday. The 33-year-old Indian man was charged with hacking websites and issuing threats. He was handed a…
CA: Student council presidential election hacked by candidate
AP reports: The first online election for student government at Berkeley High School became a lesson in more than democracy. Students also learned about vote fraud, hacking and digital privacy after a high school junior who was running for class president cast hundreds of fake online votes for himself. As many as 2,400 students were…
Swiss Banker Guilty of Corporate Espionage for Leaking Data on Tax Dodge
Hugo Miller reports: A Zurich court convicted a former employee of Bank J. Safra Sarasin AG of one count of corporate espionage for leaking internal documents about a controversial tax deal. The man, who can only be identified as Volker S., was found guilty Thursday of giving a journalist the information, which was used by…