Richard Osley reports: Four people have been arrested after the private details of some of Camden’s most vulnerable residents were “stolen” from Town Hall computer systems – raising fears that personal information has already been passed to cold-call scammers, the New Journal has learned. Detectives were called in by Camden Council after the names, dates of birth and addresses…
Category: Government Sector
Dozens of security breaches by Australian Defence Force
Bryan Seymour reports: There have been 60 serious security breaches across the Australian Defence Force, including three-dimensional maps of secure Australian army bases being sent to overseas suppliers in unsecure emails. Documents, obtained by 7 News, found inappropriate access was given to staff, sensitive defence details were discussed at a coffee shop and casual employees…
Ca: Calgary apologizes for privacy breach of Workers’ Compensation Board files
CBC News reports: Registered letters are being sent to 3,716 victims of a privacy breach after WCB claim information was released due to “human error,” say city officials. In a release issued late Wednesday afternoon, Donald von Hollen, acting chief security officer for the city’s corporate security, said “numbers, names, incident dates, details regarding the nature…
Four states’ fishing and hunting licensing sites hacked (update3)
The databases of four state wildlife sporting licensing sites have been hacked, according to an individual who claims to be the hacker. On Monday, an individual calling him/herself “Mr. High” posted the following on an AlphaBay forum: I just hacked four websites and reported the security holes. Two of these were government websites. All of these…
Turkish Hackers Launch Second Cyber-Attack on Killeen’s Website
Some hacktivism activities are easier for me to understand than others. On August 16, Stephen Adams and Brandon Gray reported that the City of Killeen (Texas) website was hacked for the second time in roughly three months: Visitors to the website were welcomed to a message of “HACKED BY llJACKSPARROWll” along with an image of a Turkish Flag and Turkey…
‘Significant’ security holes in Medicare/Medicaid data
Norman Leahy reports: Medicare and Medicaid have “significant” vulnerabilities in their wireless networks that jeopardize the personal information of millions of citizens, according to a report issued Wednesday. If exploited, the security holes at certain Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data operations could result in “unauthorized access” to personally identifiable information and a possible “disruption…