When the Surveilling are Surveilled

Channel KOKH 25 out of Oklahoma City is reporting that somehow somebody managed to load computer surveillance software onto three computers at the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s office.

According to Oklahoma Sheriff John Whetsel, whomever installed the software gained access to some very sensitive information, including not only personnel files, but also prisonor information and homeland security information.

Ouch.

According to Oklahoma County officials, the only way that the software could have been installed would have been either if someone were sitting at the computers, or by, and here Aunty quotes, “a person with administrative access to the county’s computer network.”

Ouch again.

Given the recent advisory regarding Internet nasties such as the Brophia worm, the latter doesn’t sound terribly far-fetched.

Just a couple of weeks ago Aunty reported… [Continued...]