Okay, this is awful in terms of what might have happened. Kudos to the passerby who spotted it and gave it to the media to make sure that this wasn’t covered up. Alex Matthews reports: A secret police dossier containing personal details of paedophiles and their victims has been found dumped in a street in…
Category: Government Sector
Ca: Sunshine list screw-up: privacy breached for 2nd year in a row
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.
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…