Local Company Testifies On P2P File Sharing Dangers

Officials from Tiversa, a Cranberry company specializing in file sharing security, were in Washington, D.C. again. This time they testified before the House Committee On Oversight and Government Reform.

This is a story Target 11 has been following since February. That’s when Target 11 investigator Rick Earle reported that Tiversa had found the blueprints of Air Force One at an IP address in Iran.

Bob Boback, chief executive officer of Tiversa, presented confidential information his company had found on the internet which he said was leaked through peer-to-peer file sharing.

Boback showed the committee all confidential information ranging from security details for the First Lady to private medical information from thousands of patients to classified information on military personnel.

Boback said, “It's exploding now that companies are starting to recognize that their personal information, national security secrets, tax returns and medical information --this is all exploding across the internet and identity thieves and others are using it.”

After the hearing the chairman of the committee, Edolphus Towns, said he will now introduce a bill to ban these types of insecure, open networks from all government and contractor computers and networks.

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