Claire Reilly reports: It’s official. Foreign spies compromised Australia’s government networks last year, and they got at us through our weather division. The Australian Cyber Security Centre has confirmed that a 2015 attack on servers at Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology was conducted by a “foreign intelligence service.” The attack saw two computers on the BOM’s network…
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Ca: Province says it might have sent tax documents to wrong addresses
CBC News reports: Manitoba Finance is investigating after the province revealed it might have accidentally sent six sets of business tax documents to the wrong address. A handful of tax returns may have been included in envelopes intended for and sent to other businesses, the province said in a statement Tuesday. The documents displayed the business name, address, account number…
Computer fraud charge against woman involves ID theft of VA workers
Rachel Weiner reports: An employee at the Department of Veterans Affairs stole his co-workers’ confidential information and shared it with a friend who used it to obtain a credit card and access a bank account — ultimately making charges at a Diesel clothing store and with a plastic surgeon, authorities said. The allegation comes from…
Turkey blocks Google, Microsoft and Dropbox services to ‘suppress’ mass email leaks
Jason Murdock reports: In an attempt to curb the spread of leaked emails from a high-ranking government official, the Turkish government reportedly blocked access to a slew of well-known technology and cloud services in the country, including Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Google Drive. According to Turkey Blocks, a web monitoring organisation that reported the outages, the nationwide…
IE: Private investigator guilty of data protection breach
RTÉ reports: The director of a Galway-based private investigation company has pleaded guilty at Tuam District Court to breaches of the Data Protection Act. Michael Ryan, of Glen Collection Investments Ltd, in Glenamaddy, obtained personal information from the Department of Social Protection when he was working on behalf of AIB and Bank of Ireland. Read…
Va. launches investigation after discovering 20-30 boxes of veterans’ records in ex-Veterans Services employee’s storage unit
Mark Bowes reports: A state investigation is underway after authorities said they discovered 20 to 30 boxes of documents, including claims filed by veterans, in a storage unit once leased by a former Virginia Department of Veterans Services employee who worked at the agency’s veterans benefits office at McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Veterans Services…