Taelor Bentley writes: The infamous hacker group “Anonymous” reportedly conducted an attack against the Canadian government on Wednesday. This attack made multiple government websites go dark, including Canada.ca and the websites for the Department of Foreign Affairs, Transport Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and Justice Canada. This hack was supposedly in protest against the government’s controversial new security legislation. Bill…
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UK: London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham signs undertaking
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. This follows incidents where personal data relating to a number of individuals was sent to unintended recipients due to typing errors in the address of the correspondence. On investigation…
Lawmakers demand OPM chief’s resignation
Andy Medici reports: More lawmakers are calling for the Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta to step down over widely reported data breaches that exposed the personal information of millions of federal employees. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told the Washington Post after a June 16…
The OPM Hack and the New DOD Law of War Manual
Kristen Eichensehr writes: Last Friday was a big day in cybersecurity news. OPM announced that, in addition to the compromise of the personnel information of federal employees revealed on June 4, Chinese hackers also breached a database containing millions of security clearance forms. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Potomac, the Department of Defense…
Arizona state agency website hacked to display Muslim message
On June 10, Mary Jo Pitzl reported: A group that calls itself the Middle East Cyber Army hacked into the Arizona Department of Weights and Measures website over the weekend, the second known attack on an Arizona site. MECA also hacked into the site of Art and Sol, a Scottsdale-based group that produces children’s musical…
Updates on OPM breach(es)
Some bits ‘n pieces of the follow-ups on the OPM hack… Malia Zimmerman reports: In addition to data from the OPM breach, Roberts said a new OWL search has uncovered another 9,500 government log-in credentials stolen this week from a variety of county, state and federal agencies across the nation, for everything from the Obamacare…