Megan Ellis reports: Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema’s office was burgled, with confidential EFF files reported stolen. The burglary occured in Malema’s parliamentary office. “When the EFF Parliamentary support staff arrived in the office of the CIC Julius Malema in the morning of the 29th of July 2015, they found that the office…
Category: Government Sector
Sri Lankan Prime Minister’s Office Website Hacked
Waqas writes: The Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has his office website hacked by a hacktivist who hacks for #ForSyria. A hacker going with the handle of Dr.MwNs has hacked and defaced the official website of Prime Minister’s Office Sri Lanka earlier today. Read more on HackRead.
UK: Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council undertaking
Here’s yet another case where an investigation of a breach resulted in the ICO discovering that an entity was not providing data protection training and re-training often enough. On October 10, 2014, the Information Commissioner (ICO) was informed that Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council had lost a file containing 66 records of families requiring Health services. There is no…
WA: Labor Department vulnerable to data breach
Sean Higgins reports: The Labor Department has several gaps in its cybersecurity protections that could be exploited by hackers, according to a report publicly released Tuesday by its inspector general’s office. Several of the gaps were identified three years ago, the report noted, but the department has done very little to prevent potential data theft. Read more…
Former correctional officer sentenced to prison for stealing identities of Troy jail inmates
Erin Edgemon reports: A former correctional officer at the Troy Police Department City Jail was sentenced to 32 months in prison for his involvement in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme. Devon Tucker, 31, pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of aggravated…
Saudi national arrested en route to Dubai on hacking charges (updated)
Courtney Trenwith reports that Turki Omar, a Saudi national, posted on his Twitter account ‘Marjouj Hazazi’ on Thursday that he had been intercepted at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on charges of hacking. Saudi Gazette adds that a spokesman for Makkah Police said the police had received reports from a public organization in Al-Laith governorate that their website…