Perry Chiaramonte reports: The private information of thousands of California firearms instructors was accidentally released by the state late last year in response to a journalist’s Freedom of Information request. The data request was made in August, when a reporter for Southern California Public Radio (KPCC), an NPR affiliate, sought all information on Firearms Safety…
Category: Government Sector
Senior Canadian military officer removed from post over alleged security leak
Xinhua News reports: Canada’s second-highest-ranked military commander was removed from his post over allegations that technical information related to the country’s multibillion-dollar shipbuilding program may have been leaked, local media reported Tuesday. Vice Chief of the Defense Staff Mark Norman, who was removed from his post Monday, was involved in the alleged leak of classified information…
UK: Trojan malware blamed for cyberattack at Barts Health NHS hospitals
Danny Palmer reports that trojan malware has been blamed for the cyberattack against Barts Health NHS Trust, which had been noted previously on this site. The Trust had disclosed that they originally suspected ransomware had infected its system, but had ruled that out. The method of infection is either still not known or they’re not…
Japan gropes for cyberattack solution as victims suffer in silence
Ayako Mie reports: Last November, chilling news made headlines nationwide — the internal communications network of the Defense Ministry and Self-Defense Forces had been hacked in September, possibly by another nation. According to Kyodo News, the Defense Information Infrastructure, the high-speed, high-capacity communications network linking SDF bases and camps, was compromised. Following the report, Defense…
UK: Investigation after Barts Health Trust hit by cyber attack
Mark Chandler reports that the biggest NHS trust in London has been hit by a cyberattack, but the nature of the attack is not clear. Barts Health Trust, which runs four hospitals – The Royal London, St Bartholomew’s, Whipps Cross, and Newham – report that although they initially believed it was a ransomware attack, they have ruled that…
Siblings arrested over cyber espionage operation which tapped emails of ex-prime ministers and Vatican cardinals
Nick Squires reports: An Italian nuclear engineer and his sister have been arrested by police on charges of conducting a massive cyber-espionage operation that hacked into the emails of two former prime ministers, Vatican cardinals and Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank. Giulio Occhionero, 45, and his sister Francesca Maria Occhionero, 48,…