AAP reports that a 33-year-old north Queensland female police officer has been suspended for accessing confidential information on police computers. Read more on news.com.au, although there’s no details as to why she allegedly improperly accessed confidential information.
Category: Government Sector
Madhya Pradesh police falls to “Pakistani Cyber Attackers”
P. Naveen reports: BHOPAL/JABALPUR: A portal of Madhya Pradesh police was hacked for third time by Pakistani hackers. Hackers calling themselves “Pakistani cyber attackers” defaced the official website of Jabalpur police with Pakistani flags and slogans claiming revenge against Indian attacks. The website www.jabalpurpolice.org was hacked with a handle – Hunter Gujjar — at 11.30am….
Australian teenager accused of being part of group suspected of US Army hack able to flee ‘easily’
Lauren Day reports: An Australian teenage hacker has raised serious questions about border security after he fled the country, despite having been ordered to surrender his passport. Dylan Wheeler, from Perth, was 17 when he was charged with being part of a group that hacked the computers of Microsoft and the US Army. The hackers…
U.S. Air Force looking into data breach related to contract protest
Andrea Shalal reports: The U.S. Air Force is looking into how classified data about a competition for a next-generation U.S. bomber found its way into a report published by Forbes magazine, according to several sources familiar with the issue. Boeing Co and Lockheed Martin Corp this month filed a formal protest against the Air Force’s…
OPM OIG Audit Finds Significant Problems Remain
From the Executive Summary of FY 2015 FISMA Results: The significant deficiency related to information security governance has been dropped due to the reorganization of the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO). OPM’s system development life cycle policy is not enforced for all system development projects. OPM does not maintain a…
Personal data of thousands of Jefferson Co. residents exists online
Eric Besson reports: As public anxiety persists over regular reports of major data breaches, Social Security numbers of up to thousands of current and former Jefferson County residents can be found online in electronic county records, increasing locals’ vulnerability to a costly and stressful ordeal. The issue lingers from an unresolved statewide privacy gap spotted almost a…