Police say Schwarzenegger computer may have been hacked
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California police are probing if   computer hackers illegally downloaded a private taped   conversation of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger from state   computers, a spokesman said on Monday.
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Days after getting busted for attempting to get tech support on a printer he allegedly stole in an incident believed to have exposed the personal info of 500 driver's-license applicants, the Missouri man may have had his personal data inadvertently exposed in a data breach. Timothy Scott Short was previously a suspect in an ID-theft incident.
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More than 1 million computers &#151; possibly yours, too &#151; are used by hackers as remote-controlled robots to crash online systems, accept spam and steal users' personal information, the FBI said Wednesday. The government has no way to track down all the computers, both in the U.S. and elsewhere, that hackers have massed into centrally controlled collections known as botnets.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - A computer hacker accessed names and Social Security numbers of about 1.4 million Californians after breaking into a University of California, Berkeley, computer system in perhaps the worst attack of its kind ever suffered by the school, officials said on Tuesday.
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Here&#39;s a tip: If you steal a printer used to print driver&#39;s licenses, don&#39;t call the manufacturer asking for driver software.It&#39;s a lesson that Timothy Scott Short learned all too well this month, when he got arrested after placing a couple of calls to Digimarc&#39;s tech support line.Short, 33, is facing felony charges for possession of &quot;document-making implements&quot; in connection with the theft of a Digimarc printer used by the state of Missouri to manufacture driver&#39;s licenses.The printer, along with a PC, were stolen on the evening of Oct. 5 from the St. Charles contract office of the Missouri Department of Revenue, said Trish Vincent, director of the department. These offices are run by individuals who are subcontracted by the department to issue driver&#39;s licenses, Vincent said. The pilfered printer could be used to produce a license, Vincent said.The PC, however, was locked with a key, and because the key was stored in a secure location, the PC was unusable to the thief, said Vincent.So what do you do when you have a stolen driver&#39;s license printer, but can&#39;t use the PC that goes with it? Enter Digimarc&#39;s tech support line.According to a sworn statement by Secret Service Special Agent John Bush, someone who identified himself as &quot;Scott&quot; called Digimarc two days later and asked if he could buy printer drivers for the model of printer that had been swiped from the St. Charles office.The Secret Service agent later listened to a recording of this call and recognized Short&#39;s voice from a prior investigation, Bush said. The caller also gave Digimarc the same phone number Short had used in an unrelated identity theft case, Bush said.Short was charged on Oct. 11, and is facing 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to court filings.&quot;The stolen equipment contains the identifying information and photographs of between 200 to 500 Missouri residents,&quot; Bush said in the statement. &quot;The only use of the equipment is the manufacture of state identification documents.&quot;The state has sent notification letters to those affected by the theft, Vincent said. The computer contained name, address, and date of birth data, but not Social Security numbers, she added.Digimarc declined to explain how the Secret Service ended up listening to its customer support calls. &quot;Because of a confidentiality agreement with our customer and because this is a criminal matter, we are not able to comment on the incident,&quot; said Digimarc spokeswoman Leslie Constans.
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BERKELEY, Calif.) - The personal information of more than a (m) million Californians may have fallen into the hands of a computer hacker.
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A serious flaw in Google's desktop software could be used to wreak havoc on a victim's PC.
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The University of California, Los Angeles alerted about 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff on Tuesday that their names and certain personal information were exposed after a hacker broke into a campus computer system.
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By Dan Galindo, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 7--Twenty computers and monitors were stolen from Sedge Garden Elementary School last week, Winston-Salem police said yesterday.   The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office also has been investigating four other recent break-ins at schools.
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TechWeb - Officials think the site's server was hacked sometime between Jan. 26 and Jan. 28.
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The FBI is trying to find whoever hacked into a computer at the University of California at Berkeley. The computer contained personal information -- including social security numbers -- of nearly 1.5 million
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A stolen laptop computer containing  sensitive information on more than 26 million U.S. military  veterans and service members has been recovered and a  preliminary review indicated no data was taken, the FBI and  Veterans Affairs Department said on Thursday.
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Police have recovered the laptop  computer stolen from actor Robert Blake's attorney on the eve  of his murder trial, a theft that delayed the start of the  proceedings by two weeks, officials said on Tuesday.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. - A family claims a police officer used their computer to send sexual messages to a teenage girl...
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Police obtain permission from a 91-year-old man to break into his grown son's computer. The court that allowed this search might want to reconsider.
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Police computer expert describes how he found graphic child pornography on a laptop recovered from the home of Bafta-winning comedy actor.
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By MATT REED  COLUMBUS, Ohio - The state has hired a computer security expert to determine the likelihood of someone getting access to the data on a stolen backup storage device, Gov. Ted Strickland said Sunday.