Ben Feuerherd and Jorge Fitz-GibbonMarch report: A Manhattan federal judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a former CIA programmer accused of turning over a trove of secret documents to Wikileaks. US District Judge Paul Crotty made the call in the case of accused leaker Joshua Schulte after the jury declared itself “extremely…
Category: Government Sector
NC: Durham City and County services targeted in cyber attack, 80 servers taken offline
Elaina Athans reports: Whether you call the Durham Police Station or the city’s fire department, you’ll get the same message, a recording that plays, “line has been disconnected.” It’s the result of widespread hacking. Durham city officials said 80 servers were taken offline after a cyber malware attack late Friday night. Read more on ABC11.
Melbourne professor quits after health department pressures her over data breach
Josh Taylor reports: A prominent university professor has quit after the health department pressured her university to stop her speaking out about the Medicare and PBS history of over 2.5 million Australians being re-identifiable online due to a government bungle. In 2016, Vanessa Teague, a cryptographer from the University of Melbourne, and two of her…
Former DHS Acting Inspector General Indicted for Stealing Database with Personnel Information
Mariam Baksh reports: A federal grand jury indicted a former acting inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security and his former subordinate in connection with the theft of proprietary software and databases containing government employees’ personal information for the purpose of defrauding the U.S. government, according to a Justice Department announcement. The Justice Department…
AU: Fears private details of Defence Force members compromised resulted in investigation
Anna Henderson and defence correspondent Andrew Greene The ABC can reveal Defence Force Recruiting’s outsourced electronic records system was taken offline and quarantined from other military networks in February, while IT specialists worked to contain an apparent security breach. Since 2003, the Powerforce database has stored sensitive information about ADF recruits, under a contract awarded…
NZ: Tuia 250 privacy breach: Tech boss signed off on government website with no testing
Craig McCulloch of RNZ reports: A top tech boss at the Ministry of Culture and Heritage (MCH) reviewed the Tuia 250 website’s security and declared it “fit for purpose” just two months before a major breach was uncovered, new correspondence shows. […] Correspondence obtained by RNZ under the Official Information Act shows the website –…