UK: Tabloid Hack Attack on Royals, and Beyond
September 1, 2010 by Dissent
Filed under Breaches, Non-U.S., Surveillance
Don Van Natta Jr., Jo Becker, and Graham Bowley report: In November 2005, three senior aides to Britain’s royal family noticed odd things happening on their mobile phones. Messages they had never listened to were somehow appearing in their mailboxes as if heard and saved. Equally peculiar were stories... Read more...
Orange Spain disclosing user phone number
From the Certificate Error blog: I’m currently assessing how mobile operators modify and enrich HTTP headers. I´ve already analyzed the main operators in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK with very interesting results I´ll publish soon. [...] During the assessment I found that Orange Spain... Read more...
My: Probe into leak of text messages, phone calls
August 30, 2010 by Dissent
Filed under Breaches, Businesses, Non-U.S.
The alleged leak of confidential text messages and telephone conversations of a woman is now being probed by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). The MCMC is checking to ascertain if the telecommunication company had committed any offence. The directive to investigate came... Read more...
Groups ask attorney general to discard ‘Utah list’
Lee Davidson reports: Several civil rights groups are asking Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff not to use a now-infamous list of 1,300 alleged illegal immigrants to pursue criminal charges against them. More than 100 groups made a similar request last month to federal immigration officials. Now, many... Read more...
Woman files lawsuit over campaign mailing
August 26, 2010 by Dissent
Filed under Breaches, Court, Featured Headlines
Matt Thacker reports on a case that demonstrates just how low some people will stoop in a political campaign. Emphasis in the excerpt added by me: The adult daughter of Clark County Commissioner Mike Moore has filed a lawsuit against Citizens for Decency in Government for political mailings sent out... Read more...
