John Marzulli reports: A federal judge tossed an indictment Wednesday against an NYPD auxiliary cop charged with hacking into a police computer in Brooklyn to obtain traffic accident information, the Daily News has learned. Yehuda Katz is off the hook on computer fraud charges after prosecutors acknowledged the government recently became aware of information “suggesting…
Month: November 2015
Ca: Prince Edward Island’s Workers Compensation Board reports 47 privacy breaches in 4 years
CBC News reports: P.E.I.’s information and privacy commissioner is recommending changes to prevent breaches at the Workers Compensation Board after 47 breaches to personal privacy were reported in a four-year period. Privacy Commissioner Karen Rose started investigating after a WCB client complained in 2010 some of his medical information was mailed to an unrelated third…
AU: Taxpayer records exposed by serious ATO, myGov security flaw
Hannah Francis reports: Australians’ private tax records were left unsecured thanks to a serious flaw in how the tax office’s online services connect with myGov, in the latest of a series of security bungles related to the federal government’s online services. Experts have raised concerns over the handling of IT security issues by the Australian Taxation Office and…
Suit accuses Georgia of massive data breach involving 6 million voters (updated)
Kristina Torres reports: Two Georgia women have filed a class action lawsuit alleging a massive data breach by Secretary of State Brian Kemp involving the Social Security numbers and other private information of more than six million voters statewide. The suit, filed Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court, alleges Kemp’s office released the information including…
NY: Hundreds of Personal Medical Records Intended for Lab Faxed to Brooklyn Marketing Firm in Error
Pei-Sze Cheng reports: A Brooklyn marketing office was inundated for months by hundreds of private medical documents meant for Quest Diagnostics, but couldn’t get anyone at the clinical laboratory services company to take action until she called NBC 4 New York’s I-Team. Gabby Klotzman started working for APS Marketing Group in Flatbush in April and…
INFORMATION SECURITY: Department of Education and Other Federal Agencies Need to Better Implement Controls – GAO
From a newly released GAO report: Cyber-based risks to federal systems and information can come from unintentional threats, such as natural disasters, software coding errors, and poorly trained or careless employees, or intentional threats, such as disgruntled insiders, hackers, or hostile nations. These threat sources may exploit vulnerabilities in agencies’ systems and networks to steal…