Gonzalez is a former informant for the U.S. Secret Service who helped the agency hunt hackers, authorities say. The agency later found out that he had also been working with criminals and feeding them information on ongoing investigations, even warning off at least one individual, according to authorities.
via My Way News – Prosecutors say man stole 130M credit card numbers.
Seriously? Maybe a little more background research and some supervision was in order? Psych profile?
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Fifth person pleads guilty to passport snooping.
Government Employees Gone Wild! Another example illustrating how the government can’t protect you. It can’t protect itself.
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“People have realised that in some cases companies know more about them than the state or the police,” she adds. “The recent cases have been a wake-up call.”
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“The FBI, the senators said, has 250 agents handling fraud caseloads that have doubled since 2005 as well as a ten-fold increase in mortgage-fraud allegations referred by the Treasury Department — from 5,400 in 2002 to 60,000 in 2008. At present “the FBI cannot even begin to investigate all the possible frauds it hears about,” said Sen. Leahy in a press release.”
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“Too many companies — including, Sproul says, larger ones — fail to run background checks on new hires even though the employee may have access to bank account numbers, Social Security data and other private consumer information.”
via Computer pro offers security tips :: Beacon News :: Business Monthly.
This is common sense, folks. Corporations are systematically giving un-screened workers access to the most sensitive customer data? Why? What’s really going on here? Background checks don’t cost that much, so what’s the issue?
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