Brian Robins follows up on the NSW Auditor-General’s report, released yesterday:
Computer hackers could gain access to personal information held in government databases as state departments routinely ignore government edicts that tighter security be imposed.
The government rarely discloses when its computer security systems have been breached, although in a report yesterday, the NSW Auditor-General, Peter Achterstraat, confirmed the Jobs NSW website was hacked last year, with email addresses of job applicants stolen and the applicants spammed by the hackers.
Similarly, RailCorp’s computer networks were infected with the Conficker virus last year. This disabled security services in its network, with data vulnerable to theft or modification by hackers
Read more in the Sydney Morning Herald.