A Salt Lake City man faces up to 15 years in prison for allegedly intercepting the e-mail of two of his former bosses, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said.William K. Dobson, 55, is charged with surreptitiously accessing the e-mail system of a Utah technology firm after he left the company. He has been indicted on two counts of intercepting electronic communications and one count of illegally obtaining information from a protected computer, the DoJ announced late Wednesday. The Justice Department did not release the name of Dobson’s former employer.After Dobson left the company over business and financial disagreements, he accessed the company’s e-mail system twice to program it to send e-mail to an unauthorized inbox he created on the company’s system, the DoJ said. Dobson allegedly routed the e-mail of the company’s chief executive officer and its vice president of engineering to this inbox.He programmed his home computer to download the e-mail for longer than a month, until the U.S. FBI searched his home in connection with the investigation, the DoJ said. Dobson allegedly read many of the e-mail messages, containing both business and personal information, the DoJ said.If convicted, Dobson faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, a fine of up to US $250,000 and restitution to the victims. -Grant Gross, IDG News Service (Washington Bureau)Keep checking in at our Security Feed for updated news coverage. Related content news Google Chrome zero-day jumps onto CISA's known vulnerability list A serious security flaw in Google Chrome, which was discovered under active exploitation in the wild, is a new addition to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency’s Known Exploited vulnerabilities catalog. By Jon Gold Oct 03, 2023 3 mins Zero-day vulnerability brandpost The advantages and risks of large language models in the cloud Understanding the pros and cons of LLMs in the cloud is a step closer to optimized efficiency—but be mindful of security concerns along the way. By Daniel Prizmant, Senior Principal Researcher at Palo Alto Networks Oct 03, 2023 5 mins Cloud Security news Arm patches bugs in Mali GPUs that affect Android phones and Chromebooks The vulnerability with active exploitations allows local non-privileged users to access freed-up memory for staging new attacks. By Shweta Sharma Oct 03, 2023 3 mins Android Security Vulnerabilities news UK businesses face tightening cybersecurity budgets as incidents spike More than a quarter of UK organisations think their cybersecurity budget is inadequate to protect them from growing threats. By Michael Hill Oct 03, 2023 3 mins CSO and CISO Risk Management Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe