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IN: Man detained for data theft at Revenue dept.

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Dissent

Sharad Vyas reports: A desktop engineer from the State Information Technology (IT) Department was detained on Tuesday for allegedly stealing data from the Revenue Department, after the government filed a complaint with the Marine Drive police station. The engineer allegedly hacked into 28 computers connected to the Mumbai Collector, Deputy Collector and other tehsil offices….

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IN: Ransomware attack forces emergency shutdown of Lake County government servers, IT working through weekend to purge system

Posted on August 25, 2019 by Dissent

Will Racke and Anna Ortiz report: Lake County has been hit with a cyber attack that forced the shutdown of email service and several internal applications throughout county government, officials said Friday. [..] As of Thursday afternoon, the county’s IT staff was installing cyber security software on 3,000 individual employee laptops, Mark Pearman, director of…

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NZ: Ministry for Culture and Heritage investigating serious digital privacy breach

Posted on August 24, 2019 by Dissent

Passports, drivers’ licences and birth certificate details have been exposed to fraudsters after a serious Government digital privacy breach. The Ministry for Culture and Heritage says 302 young people supplied their details to it as part of an application for the Tuia 250 Voyage trainee programme. These were uploaded to an external website which was…

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Hackers Leaked Sensitive Government Data in Argentina—and Nobody Cares

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Dissent

Eugenia Lostri reports: On Monday, Aug. 12, hackers leaked 700 GB of data obtained from the government of Argentina, including confidential documents, wiretaps and biometric information from the Argentine Federal Police, along with the personal data of police officers. The Twitter account of the Argentine Naval Prefecture was hacked as well, and used not only…

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UK Police Investigations Still Affected by Ransomware Attack

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Dissent

Akshaya Asokan reports: The June ransomware attack against one of the largest forensic labs in the U.K. continues to delay police investigations in Britain while authorities await test results. At one point, authorities were confronted with a backlog of 20,000 forensic samples – including DNA and blood-samples – that were awaiting analysis for criminal cases,…

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CBSA officer caught leaking police information to family members: internal docs

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Dissent

Catherine Tunney reports: A Canada Border Services Agency agent breached federal privacy law when she took a photo of confidential police information and emailed it to a member of her family, says an internal report. According to a copy of the findings, recently obtained by CBC News through access to information law, the Calgary Police…

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