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FL: DCF employee, husband stole identities to get public assistance

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Dissent

David Ovalle reports: As an employee of Florida’s Department of Children & Families, Clara Builes was in charge of approving applications for public-assistance benefits for the poor. But Miami-Dade prosecutors say that for nearly four years, she used her position to help steal the the identities of several unsuspecting people, getting fraudulent benefit cards used…

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ZA: Investigations underway into stolen UK visa applications

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Dissent

Gia Nicolaides reports: JOHANNESBURG – The British High Commission has released a statement saying it’s doing everything it can to assist people who lost their UK visa applications and supporting documents, following a hijacking in Johannesburg. Eyewitness News (EWN) has learnt that scores of South Africans applying for visas either for business, pleasure or permanent relocation, lost all their personal…

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AU: A junior Defence staffer allegedly took home an intelligence report and posted it online

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Dissent

Christopher Knaus and Michael Inman report: An Australian spy agency says it has no way of knowing who has obtained a “highly sensitive” report meant for our top allies after it was allegedly leaked by a junior defence bureaucrat on an online forum. In an embarrassing security breach, a 21-year-old Department of Defence graduate allegedly managed to download a secret…

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Confidential Economic Freedom Fighters files stolen

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Dissent

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…

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Sri Lankan Prime Minister’s Office Website Hacked

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Dissent

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.

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UK: Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council undertaking

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Dissent

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…

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