Kevin Poulsen reports: A hacker group calling itself “GlobalLeaks” has begun distributing hacked emails stolen from the inbox of Yousef Al Otaiba, the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to the United States and a man credited for cementing America’s close alliance with the U.A.E. in the war on ISIS. The hackers reached out to The Daily…
Category: Government Sector
Massive privacy breach at Public Services reveals workers’ salaries
Dean Beeby reports: The personal information of almost 13,000 public servants was exposed in one of the largest ever privacy breaches at a federal government department. The July 11, 2016, breach at Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) included the salary, age, reading-and-writing test results and other private information of 12,901 employees — nearly everyone working…
INFORMATION SECURITY: FDIC Needs to Improve Controls over Financial Systems and Information
From: INFORMATION SECURITY: FDIC Needs to Improve Controls over Financial Systems and Information GAO-17-436: Published: May 31, 2017. Publicly Released: May 31, 2017. What GAO Found The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) implemented numerous information security controls intended to protect its key financial systems. However, further actions are needed to address weaknesses in access controls—including boundary…
Has Booz Allen Hamilton had yet another serious and embarrassing data leak?
So while I was busy trying to get from there to here, UpGuard’s new site, Cyber Resilience, released its first blockbuster report: In what constitutes the latest in a series of blows to the US intelligence community’s reputation for stringent information security, UpGuard’s Cyber Resilience Team can now reveal the discovery by Cyber Risk Analyst…
UK: Fury as Basildon Council is fined £150k after accidentally publishing travellers’ private details online
Charles Thomson reports: Basildon Council has been fined £150,000 for breaching the Data Protection Act, after accidentally publishing a resident’s details on the council website. The council published a planning statement on its website but failed to redact private information before making it public. The private information remained online for six weeks before eventually being…
Ca: ‘Anomaly’ caused OHIP privacy breach
The province plans to resume mailing health card renewal notices more than a month after a printing “anomaly” caused a privacy breach. Incorrectly printed forms resulted in the personal information for thousands of children being mailed to strangers in April. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services, Harry Malhi, said in an…