Ian Duncan reports: Russian hackers infiltrated the Department of Defense‘s unclassified network earlier this year, Secretary Ashton B. Carter said in a speech at Stanford University Thursday. The attack has not previously been reported. Carter said attackers discovered a vulnerability in an older network that hadn’t been repaired. An elite Defense Department team identified the break-in and began looking for…
Category: Government Sector
Hack breaches Taipei government computers
Abraham Gerber reports that the hacking of computers in the Taipei Mayor’s office may be more extensive that originally noted on this site a few weeks ago when only one computer had reportedly been compromised by malware: A large amount of information was leaked in a hacking breach of city computers, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je said yesterday….
Oregon state data center security flaws found in 2012 still not fixed
Hillary Borrud reports: Three years after state auditors identified security weaknesses at Oregon’s main data center in Salem, the state has yet to fix some of the problems. The vulnerabilities were outlined in a secret March 2012 letter to Michael Jordan, who, at the time, was director of the Department of Administrative Services, which manages…
Stolen CentCom computers found on eBay
Patty Ryan reports: The internal theft of five laptop computers from U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base went undetected until a supplier noticed four of them advertised on eBay, according to federal court records. A CentCom official ordered an inventory, putting it in the hands of a Riverview man who now admits to…
VA report for March, 2015
From their statistics: Intrusion Attempts (Blocked): 358,163,688 Malware (Blocked/Contained): 1,190,896,611 Suspicious/Malicious Emails (Blocked): 81,343,076 Outgoing Unencrypted Emails: 1,136 Associated Privacy/Security Events 18,589 Total Emails Blocked Lost and Stolen Device Incidents: 50 Lost PIV Cards: 154 Mishandled Incidents: 105 Mis-mailed Incidents: 165 Paper Mis-mailings, 7 Pharmacy-item Mis-mailings out of 7,465,613 Total Mailings In terms of specific incidents reported, a cooler containing lab specimens…
Unauthorized access on Minnesota CHOICE site
Oops. Krystal Frazier reports: The Minnesota Department of Corrections has found an error on the Minnesota CHOICE site which allowed 151 people who self-identified as criminal justice professionals, unauthorized access to the names and contact information of up to 7,000 individuals who have registered to use the site. Read more on NorthlandNewsCenter.com.