Melissa Matheney reports: Capitol police are investigating a possible break-in at Sierra Regional Center in Sparks on August 17th, according to Nikki Haag, a spokesperson for the Division of Aging and Disability Services at the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. Haag says they are concerned that personal, identifiable information and protected health information…
Category: Government Sector
Karnataka’s famed land record database Bhoomi faces another security breach
Akshatha M reports: In a serious security breach of Karnataka’s famed land record database, 19 acres of government wasteland in Devanahalli were shifted to a private individual illegally last week. In Gobbaragunte village of Devanahalli taluk, around 40 km from Bengaluru, land value is very high. The incident has caused ripples in the revenue department. Land sharks are…
Aadhaar software hacked; UIDAI needs to work with hackers, says French security expert
IANS reports: HuffPost India has revealed that the Aadhaar database, which contains the biometrics and personal information of over one billion Indians, “had been compromised by a software patch which disables critical security features of the software used to enrol new Aadhaar users.” According to the report, any unauthorized person from anywhere in the world…
UK: TV Licencing urges tens of thousands of Scottish customers to check bank statements after data security breach
Helen Knapman reports: Thousands of Scots television viewers who have entered their details on the TV Licencing website in the past few weeks are being urged to check their bank statements for suspicious transactions following a data alert. TV Licencing warns that from 29 August until around 3.20pm on 5 September 2018, some transactions carried…
Click2Gov Payment System Security Breach
A reader kindly alerted me to the fact that the city of Tyler had reported a breach. When I looked into it, I see that it’s yet one more report on Click2Gov by Superion. This has been a known problem since last year, so why haven’t municipal governments updated and patched? RiskBasedSecurity had a more…
Ca: Midland servers hacked, attackers demanding ransom
Andrew Mendler reports: The Town of Midland’s computer systems were hacked over the long weekend. In the early morning hours of Sept. 1, the town became the victim of a cyber-attack in which the town’s network was illegally accessed and infected with ransomware. [..] In late April, Wasaga Beach had their computer systems hacked and…