Kim Sengupta reports: Islamist hackers linked to Isis carried out an attack on a series of NHS websites in a cyber-attack exposing serious flaws in security systems meant to protect sensitive information, The Independent has learnt. Graphic, brutal images of violence from Syria’s war were put up on the sites by a group based in North Africa…
Category: Government Sector
NJ: Little Egg Harbor Seeks Three Tiered Criminal Investigation into Stolen Data
Somebody is stealing confidential information from municipal computer systems in Little Egg Harbor and the township wants to know who and how they end up in the hands of a local political blogger each time. In a letter dated November 10, 2016, township attorney Robin LaBue sent a letter to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office,…
India: Over 700 govt websites hacked in 4 yrs
For those who like stats, some data from India, reported by Press Trust of India: More than 700 websites of various central and state government departments were hacked in the past four years, Lok Sabha (India’s Parliament): Of the total of 707, 199 of them were hacked last year, 164 in 2015, 155 in 2014 and 189 in…
Prosecutors to seek indictment against former NSA contractor as early as this week
Ellen Nakashima reports: Federal prosecutors in Baltimore are expected to seek an indictment as early as this week against a former National Security Agency contractor who is accused of carrying out the biggest theft of classified information in U.S. history. The indictment against Harold T. Martin III is expected to contain charges of violating the Espionage…
Used government computers bought at auction filled with personal information
The 1980s called…. Scott Noll reports that a KHOU investigation “once again found the City of Houston selling private, personal information through online auctions of used government equipment.” What did they find, you wonder? “On one of the computers, we found a database containing over 100,000 medical records,” explained computer expert Gary Huestis. They do…
House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs Committee Members Compromised By Rogue IT Staff
Luke Rosiak reports: Three brothers who managed office information technology for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other lawmakers were abruptly relieved of their duties on suspicion that they accessed congressional computers without permission. Brothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives Thursday, The Daily Caller…