Last December, two journalists in Myanmar, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were invited to dinner by police officers to discuss their research into war crimes carried out by the military. The officers handed them some documents, then immediately arrested them under the country’s Official Secrets Act for possessing the classified material. As absurd as […]
Data Security
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Province just sort of stumbles across massive data breach
With minimal effort, it appears a Halifax teenager was able to download 7,000 confidential documents containing personal information on thousands of Nova Scotians—and the government only found out about it by accident. At a press conference Wednesday, deputy minister of Internal Services Jeff Conrad described how an unauthorized user had—over two days in March—accessed private […]
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Ransomware attack in Nova Scotia would be a “catastrophe”
Information security in this province is in a poor state and at risk of similar cyber attacks like the ransomware that’s been paralyzing computer systems around the world. “I would suspect that if a large British hospital is vulnerable, then a Nova Scotian hospital is,” says Catherine Tully, the province’s information and privacy commissioner. Britain’s […]