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UK: Red faces at Cornwall Council as salary and personal information sent to wrong staff

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Dissent

The Packet reports: A ‘transfer error’ has been blamed for a large breach in data protection at Cornwall Council, with personal information, details of staff salaries and payouts for redundancy sent to the wrong people. The council has admitted that “approximately” 50 employees were sent the letters relating to colleagues in the education health and social welfare directorate. The…

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MO: State retirement system suffers security breach

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Dissent

Rachael Herndon reports: Gary Findlay, executive director of Missouri State Employees’ Retirement System (MOSERS), notified state employees today — including state senators, representatives and Capitol staff — of unauthorized access to MOSERS member records. “On December 5, 2014, we confirmed four successful attempts beginning last month to fraudulently complete an online form for active members of…

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Hacker Group Anonymous Claims Credit For Oakland, OPD Website Shutdowns

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Dissent

CBS SF reports: The city of Oakland and the Oakland Police Department websites have been out intermittently since Tuesday night and the hacker group Anonymous is taking responsibility. City spokeswoman Karen Boyd said she began receiving reports that the websites were down Tuesday night. The websites have been down intermittently since then, but Boyd said…

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SG: Hacker jailed 6 months for attacking Prime Minister’s Office website and other offences

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Dissent

Ian Poh reports: Undeterred by the Government’s warning that it would deal with those who threaten to attack Singapore’s cyber infrastructure, a hacking enthusiast tested his skills on the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) website. Mohammad Azhar Tahir, 28, was sentenced to two months’ jail on Monday for entering unauthorised computer code into the site on…

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AU: AFP mistakenly names two people involved in criminal investigation

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Dissent

Paul Farrell reports: The Australian federal police have inadvertently disclosed the identity of two people involved in a criminal investigation, the second accidental publication of material about investigations this year. The identities of the two were disclosed in documents released by the AFP under freedom of information laws. Read more on The Guardian.

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Ex-Wake employee charged with accessing boss’ emails

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Dissent

WRAL reports: The [North Carolina] State Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested a former Wake County employee accused of accessing hundreds of emails of his one-time boss, Register of Deeds Laura Riddick.Nelish Kumar R. Tailor, 39, of Apex, was charged with 13 counts of accessing government computers. Read more on WRAL.

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