[privacy] Denver D.A. Issues Computer Security Alert, P2P File Sharing

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Technology News Daily.

[snip]

 The Denver District Attorney’s Office is issuing an urgent alert to
computer users who use file-sharing software, specifically LimeWire.

During the course of a routine identity theft investigation, the Denver
Police Department executed a search warrant at a Denver apartment and
recovered personal and financial information from approximately 75
different individual and business account names from all over the
country. The information, which included tax records, bank account
information, online bill paying records and other material, appears to
have been stolen directly from computers that were using LimeWire, a
filesharing software program.

It appears that the file-sharing program was exploited to enable
someone sitting at a computer in Denver to illegally access everything
– every file, every document – on computers across the country.

The investigation is continuing, and we are urging people who use
LimeWire or other file-sharing software to ensure that their computer
security is up to date including adequate firewall security, antivirus
software, and other measures.

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More:
http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/5010

- ferg


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