Motherboard reports: Members of Anonymous are claiming responsibility for leaking a trove of personal data that includes the names, email addresses, phone numbers, and partial credit card information of government employees. The information was dumped from an online database belonging to the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Society of Canada, and was posted online shortly before noon…
Category: Government Sector
IRS employees can use ‘password’ as a password? No wonder we get hacked
Trevor Timm writes: The public is finally starting to learn what security experts have been warning for years: the US government has no idea what it’s doing when it comes to cybersecurity. Worse, the government’s main “solutions” may leave all our data even more vulnerable to privacy violations and security catastrophes. Read more on The Guardian.
Ex-Newark cop pleads not guilty in alleged data theft scheme
Bill Wichert reports: A former Newark police officer pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges he and a city police captain sold personal information they illegally obtained from a database used by law enforcement agencies. Dressed in a light-colored suit and walking with a cane, Dino D’Elia, 49, of Nutley, made his first court appearance since he…
National Archives finds same malware that stole gov’t personnel data
Sean Gallagher reports: In the wake of the discovery of malware on the network of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the National Archives and Records Administration discovered three desktop computers that had been infected with the same remote access malware. The malware was detected by the National Archives’ own intrusion detection system after receiving signature data…
AU: ALP says PM may have aided ASIO breach
Once again, what’s exposed in the background of a news film may reveal sensitive information. AAP reports: ASIO chief Duncan Lewis briefed Mr Abbott and Justice Minister Michael Keenan on the spread of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria during a tour of ASIO’s new headquarters in Canberra on Wednesday. Shadow Justice Minister David Feeney…
Login creds for US agencies found scrawled on the web’s toilet walls
Alexander J. Martin reports: A threat intelligence report into the availability of login credentials for US government agencies has identified 47 agencies across 89 unique domains may be compromised. The findings resulted from an analysis of open source intelligence (OSint) from 17 paste sites, carried out between 4 November 2013 and 4 November 2014. Read…