Durgesh Nandan Jha reports: In a major security breach, the website of the National Security Guards (NSG) was hacked on Friday by anonymous programmers. Sources said the e-mails of certain officers were also hacked after which orders were issued to all officers and the NSG unit posted at the Palam headquarters to avoid using internet…
Category: Government Sector
Report: M’sia group hacked S’pore NParks site
Tyler Thia provides the update to a previously reported breach: The Malaysian hacking group H3x4 Crew has been identified as the ones responsible for breaching Singapore’s National Parks Board (NParks) Web site two weeks ago, according to a report. According to a report Tuesday by local daily The Straits Times, Malaysian employees from business consultancy…
Lost in transit: Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing notifies over 3,500 of missing disk
Michael Booth reports: The state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing has lost thousands of applicant names on a computer disk for the second time in a year, triggering a public notice under federal privacy rules. HCPF officials said the names of 3,590 medical-aid applicants were on the lost disk, though the data did…
Chinga La Migra Hacks Arizona Law Enforcement for Third Unprecedented Time
Stephen Lemons writes: Arizona law enforcement cannot be sleeping well tonight, with the keyboard anarchists of “Chinga La Migra” (“Fuck the Border Patrol,” in English) claiming yet another hack with a corresponding data dump of local cops’ personal info. I only say “claiming” because I’m still accessing the torrent. (Hey, I never said I was Julian…
Arizona state police confirm 2nd hack on officers’ email
Howard Fischer reports: A new computer attack Wednesday on the Department of Public Safety hit only officers’ outside and personal emails and, unlike last week, not the agency’s own computers, DPS Capt. Steve Harrison said. He said it appears the two incidents are linked, with those who broke into the DPS computers last week stealing…
AU: Mosman Municipal Council hacked by Anonymous?
Hamish Barwick reports: Sydney’s Mosman Municipal Council website has suffered a security breach that made the details of nine council staff available for download. However, according to a statement on the Council’s website no ratepayer information from the internal systems had been accessed. The hack was made via an SQL injection exploit on a subsidiary…