CBC News reports: P.E.I.’s information and privacy commissioner is recommending changes to prevent breaches at the Workers Compensation Board after 47 breaches to personal privacy were reported in a four-year period. Privacy Commissioner Karen Rose started investigating after a WCB client complained in 2010 some of his medical information was mailed to an unrelated third…
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AU: Taxpayer records exposed by serious ATO, myGov security flaw
Hannah Francis reports: Australians’ private tax records were left unsecured thanks to a serious flaw in how the tax office’s online services connect with myGov, in the latest of a series of security bungles related to the federal government’s online services. Experts have raised concerns over the handling of IT security issues by the Australian Taxation Office and…
Hackers Leak Brazilian Army’s Data for Foul Play in Cyber War Games
Carolina reports: Earlier this week the servers of Brazilian Army got hacked leading to private details of around 7,000 military officials getting stolen. Hackers were quick to publish the hacked private data, which included national insurance numbers and IDs/passwords used for accessing official military websites along with other details. The attack on its servers was…
In: Class 12 student finds Gauhati University website highly insecure, says can be hacked through phone
Guwahati writes; While surfing for similar vulnerability, the information security enthusiast also managed to find flaws in the content management system of a political party’s website. Rony Das, a class XII student of Bongaigaon Railway HS School hacked into the servers of the Gauhati University website through his Android phone in December last year and…
In: Two corporate executives held for stealing online store’s data
Business Standard reports: Navi Mumbai Police has arrested two corporate executives for stealing data of a leading online store and selling it to other companies. The duo, one of them a director of a company named Viral and the other CEO of another firm Expertthought, were apprehended last week, Inspector Pratiba Shendge attached to Cyber…
MoD-founded firm Niteworks loses login creds of UK defence folk
Alexander J. Martin reports: Exclusive Terrible infosec practices at Niteworks, the MoD-established business networking organisation, have led to unknown attackers gaining email addresses and passwords of British defence community members. An email seen by The Register, sent to Niteworks’ network members, confessed that “the database holding the login information for the members’ area in the niteworks.net website…