Highlights of a new GAO study also addressing VA infosecurity: What GAO Found The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has taken actions to mitigate previously identified vulnerabilities, but it has not fully addressed these weaknesses: Incident response: VA took actions to contain and eradicate the effects of a network intrusion detected in 2012, but it could…
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Hackers went after Detroit database, official
Nathan Bomey reports: Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan told the 2014 North American International Cyber Summit in Detroit crowd Monday that cyberattackers recently seized control of an immaterial city database and sought hundreds of thousands of dollars in a digital currency called bitcoin. The attack went nowhere, but Duggan said it was an example of the…
Audit: Portland, Oregon fails to comply with credit card data security standards
Fox12 in Oregon reports:- Portlanders who use their credit card to pay for parking meters and other city services may want to take a look at the city auditor’s latest report on payment card data security. The audit found Portland fails to comply with the industry’s data security standard when it comes to payments made…
Northern Ireland website leaves front door open, spills users’ data
Jennifer Baker reports: The creators of this Irish government website may be fluent in Irish, but they are distinctly unversed in data security. The Líofa (Fluent) website – a Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure project – suffered not so much a data breach as a data giveaway! Users’ personal information such as names, addresses, emails and…
Connecticut Department of Labor confirms privacy breach; 64 individuals’ details exposed
WTNH reports: Ohan Karagozian is a licensed optician who says he filed a claim with the Connecticut Department of Labor for help in getting some back wages from a former employer. He says what he got back in the mail from the department shocked him. “I started looking through the folders and I did not…
INFORMATION SECURITY: VA Needs to Address Identified Vulnerabilities – GAO
The highlights of a new GAO report, INFORMATION SECURITY: VA Needs to Address Identified Vulnerabilities: While the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has taken actions to mitigate previously identified vulnerabilities, it has not fully addressed these weaknesses. For example, VA took actions to contain and eradicate a significant incident detected in 2012 involving a network intrusion,…