Robert McMillan reports: A Mesquite, Texas, man is set to plead guilty to training his 22,000-PC botnet on a local ISP — just to show off its firepower to a potential customer. David Anthony Edwards will plead guilty to charges that he and another man, Thomas James Frederick Smith, built a custom botnet, called Nettick,…
RI: Computer glitch causes big headaches
Susan Hogan reports: An Attleboro businessman thought he hit the jackpot, his company’s 401k plan doubled in value in just months. Not only had his 401k doubled in size, so did the amount of employees he supposedly had working for him. The company he hired to handle his payroll and 401k plan, had somehow sent…
Users’ passwords exposed by Splunk
Oops — I meant to post this a few days ago, but just discovered it still sitting in the drafts folder… Gavin Clarke reports: Splunk, a kind of Google for business technology that boasts it can help re-enforce your security, has exposed the accounts of major customers to hackers following a web site slip up….
Please, stop cancelling my health card!
Donovan Vincent reports: Teresa Lawrence is sick of all the problems she’s had with her Ontario health card. Since October, the Toronto woman has had the card cancelled several times in an apparent case of mistaken identity. Each time there was a mix-up she was later assured the problem had been rectified. […] The cards…
Proposal: All New Yorkers Become Organ Donors
Organ donation has become a vital way to save lives around the world, but a vast shortage of donors continues to mean people are losing their lives while on waiting lists. But there is a unique proposal that could change all that. New York State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky nearly lost his daughter, Willie, at 4…
OH: Nurse Accused Of Using Patient Information To Obtain Painkillers
A nurse was out of a job on Wednesday, after she was under criminal investigation, accused of stealing a patient’s identity and using it to obtain narcotics. Stacy Whisner was fired from the Stoneridge Clinic in Dublin, a facility associated with the Ohio State University’s James Cancer Clinic, 10TV’s Lindsey Seavert reported. Police said Whisner,…