Jonathan Lowe reports: …. “It has the social security numbers on it, the birth date and the person’s name and address,” Murphy explains. He says he discovered boxes of absentee ballots inside the recreation hall at the Bangor Township hall. “Bangor Township had an energy expo on Sept. 24.” Murphy says. “I was looking for a…
Ca: Personal information lost by Elections Alberta
Elections Alberta is apologizing after an enumerator working in Calgary lost a binder containing information on 153 residential addresses. Names, addresses, phone numbers, and even some birth dates of residents living in polling subdivision 45 were contained in the binder. According to a release, Elections Alberta was notified of the binder being lost by an…
CSET – DHS Releases Cyber Security Evaluation Tool
CSET is a desktop software package that will allow network administrators to assess currently deployed security strategies against a set of industry best practices and government standards to increase consistency on an organization’s cybersecurity posture. U.S. CERT has provided the following information on the CSET software toolkit: ***Overview ****Critical infrastructures are dependent on information technology systems…
MAD Security awarded $1.2M Four-Year BPA Contract with US Coast Guard
The American government has been on a spending spree grabbing contracts with security firms for a huge range of divisions. The latest is the American coast guard, they have been awarded a 1.2 million four year contract to provide security training and solutions. Mad security has been providing the us federal government with security solutions and training for some…
Why National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a waste of time
So, October has been classed as National Cybersecurity Awareness… pretty lame if you ask me and even worse its the 8th one. Over the past few days security based media and even non security based media have been reporting all kinds of stuff on this CSAM. Well its my time now and im about to…
Anonymous Advise against #InvadeWallStreet attacks
Recently there was an announcement for an attack on NYSE; Anonymous has released a statement that asks anons not to fall for this disinformation and not to take part in any type fo attacks. This information comes from the Anonymous Wiki pastebin account. Greetings Fellow Anons: As brothers and sisters, we have to look out for one…