This is the true inside story of security professionals and government officials who decided to falsify a PII breach for political gain, working with obedient newspaper reporters who printed total fabrications, creating an international scandal earlier this year. A group of responsible employees, working with less senior security professionals, defeated this plot and brought punishment down on the principal offenders. However, the general public may never know the truth because the only media coverage was the original fabrication produced by the criminals.
Sam Bowne has been teaching computer networking and security classes at City College San Francisco since 2000. He has given talks at DEFCON and Toorcon on Ethical Hacking, and has taught classes and seminars at many other schools and teaching conferences. He has a B.S. in Physics from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.