Peter Cowan reports: For the second year in a row the provincial government’s salary disclosure includes names and salaries that shouldn’t have been released. The list, which is often called the “sunshine list” reveals the names and salary information for anyone making more than $100,000. Read more on CBC.
Category: Government Sector
Aadhar data leaked from Telangana government website
This report will almost certainly be followed by some statement from the Indian government about how Aadhar data is secure… Ashish Pandey reports: A college drop out in a remote corner of Telangana has sent shock waves in the state government. P Santosh Kumar, who didn’t complete his BSc degree, managed to illegally download Aadhar…
Midwest City notifies residents of incident that affected numerous municipalities
Midwest City, Oklahoma reports that about 2,300 customers were potentially affected by a breach involving software needed to use Click2Gov. As Dark Reading recently explained: Risk Based Security’s Inga Goddijn noticed a pattern of Click2Gov, a product of Superion Software, appearing in breach notification letters. The notifications came from cities across the United States, which…
Aadhaar Security Failure: Government Webpages Provide Unsecured Access To Demographic Authentication
Aria Thaker reports: In another exposure of Aadhaar’s cybersecurity weaknesses, over 70 subdomains under a Government of India website are providing access to demographic-authentication services without requiring identity verification from the requester. The websites allow users to access an application programming interface, or API, in which anyone can enter a person’s Aadhaar number, name, gender…
Indian-origin Singapore woman faces jail for data leak in ‘biggest scam’ to hit US navy
Gurdip Singh reports: ‘Contract specialist’ Sharon Rachael Gursharan Kaur allegedly got $95,000 to sell information used to sway defence bids. Singapore: A 57-year-old Indian-origin Singaporean woman, accused of being involved in the largest bribery case in the history of the US Navy, may face a jail term of more than three years, a media report said…
NYU professor releases personal info on over 1,500 ICE employees, hopes people will find it ‘useful’
Sarah Taylor reports: Sam Lavigne, who is reportedly an adjunct professor at New York University as well as a digital designer and developer, released a list of more than 1,500 Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees’ personal information on Wednesday. What are the details? In a since-removed blog post on Medium, “Lavigne wrote, ‘I’ve downloaded and…