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AU: Victoria privacy breach of vulnerable youth data

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Dissent

Joseph Brookes reports: A youth case worker stood down from a Victorian health department service provider on suspicion of accessing child pornography continued to access sensitive information about clients for months afterwards, according to a data breach inquiry into the incident. Failings in the department’s privacy protections meant the man – who was also subject to…

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Ca: Sarnia IC apologizes for privacy breach, says he won’t resign

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Dissent

Oh, oops! Cathy Dobson reports: Sarnia Integrity Commissioner Paul Watson has apologized for publicly displaying confidential information during a Zoom presentation to city council Monday. “I am a 60-year-old trying to use technology during a pandemic and I made an unfortunate mistake,” said Watson. “I’m very sad about it and sorry for those individuals whose…

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Norway’s parliament hit by new hack attack

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Dissent

Reuters reports: Hackers have infiltrated the Norwegian Parliament’s computer systems and extracted data, officials said on Wednesday, just six months after a previous cyber attack was made public. The attack by unknown hackers was linked to a “vulnerability” in Microsoft’s Exchange software, the parliament said, adding that this was an “international problem”. Read more Reuters….

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Cyberattack hits NJ employee portal containing sensitive data

Posted on March 10, 2021 by Dissent

Dustin Racioppi reports: Hackers targeted the accounts of about 200 state employees in a cyberattack on a government portal that holds sensitive personal and financial data such as Social Security numbers, birthdays and pension information, according to state and union officials. The late-January attack was disclosed to employees and their accounts were “immediately disabled,” a spokeswoman for…

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Data leak at Dutch foreign credential assessment service impacts 18,000

Posted on March 9, 2021 by Dissent

ANP reports (translation): Foreigners looking for a job in the Netherlands can obtain an assessment of their diploma on the labor market from the organization Nuffic. The application system used by Nuffic has been tested by some sixty software developers in Serbia. This country is not part of the European Union, which means that rather strict rules…

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Czech officials in Prague ‘hit by massive cyber attack’

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Dissent

EuroNews reports: Czech officials in Prague have been hit by a large-scale cyberattack, according to the city’s mayor. “There has been a massive cyber attack on public administration systems,” Zdeněk Hřib tweeted, adding that the servers had “survived” and there was little damage. An immediate outage was made on the email system to maintain security. Read…

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