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Security breach results in no charges in Clark County
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:15:30 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.newsandtribune.com/clarkcounty/local_story_114135356.html By DAVID A. MANN The News and Tribune April 24, 2009 No charges will be filed against an employee who installed suspicious programs on computers in the auditor’s office in Clark County. In an e-mail, prosecutor Steve Stewart said the results of a sheriff’s department investigation was turned over to him Tuesday. “I agree with [Sheriff Danny Rodden’s] assessment that while the actions may have been a violation of county policy, they do not constitute a crime and no criminal charges will be filed,” Stewart said. Two programs —Cane & Abel and LCP — were found on the computers. The programs can be used to breach security and discover user passwords on the county’s network, county systems administrator Matt Dyer previously wrote in an e-mail to commissioners. Rodden conducted the investigation over the last two weeks and turned it over to the prosecutor as well as county Commissioner Ed Meyer. “Nothing was compromised and our safeguards worked,” Meyer said. [...]
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