Cianan Brennan reports: Dublin’s Education and Training Board (CDETB) has been fined €125,000 by the Data Protection Commission after the personal details of 13,000 grant applicants were made available to “unauthorised persons”. The commission concluded after a six-year investigation that the ETB had breached GDPR in multiple ways by both failing to ensure sufficient security…
Category: Government Sector
Liberty Township in Ohio has recovered its network after a ransomware attack
With so many cyberattacks being disclosed every day, a lof ot them never get reported on in the media. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but some of them do contain sensitive personal information or could expose people — or the entity itself — to increased risk of future attacks. One such incident involved Liberty Township…
Pro-Russian hackers disrupt Dutch government websites ahead of NATO summit
NL Times reports: On Monday morning, an online service used by Dutch municipalities and provinces to publish official documents was likely targeted by a digital attack, De Telegraaf reported. This has made web pages containing council and provincial council documents from regions such as Zuid-Holland and Overijssel, and cities including The Hague, Den Bosch, and Delft, difficult…
UK: Oxford City Council still investigating cyberattack from earlier this month
The home page of Oxford City Council displays an alert: “Disruption to ICT systems and services: We have been experiencing issues with some of our services following a cyber security incident. Most systems are now back online. Thank you for your patience as we work through any backlogs.” The full notice indicates that they experienced…
A state forensics lab was leaking its files. Getting it locked down involved a number of people.
Remember the old meme about how many <whatever your profession was> does it take to change a lightbulb? This week felt like, “How many people does it take to get very sensitive data locked down?” But there was nothing funny about it. Spoiler alert: the answer for this week was: 2 researchers, 1 journalist, 1…
Slapped wrists for Financial Conduct Authority staff who emailed work data home
How many warnings would you give employees not to send work to their personal email accounts? And why hasn’t a government agency deployed a software solution to prevent such transmissions? Connor Jones reports: Four staffers at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) were let off with warnings over separate cases involving the transmission of regulator…