2011 Census stolen by hackers

[BigYin]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/n ... ensus.html

“We have blissfully obtained records of every single citizen who gave their records to the security-illiterate UK government for the 2011 census,” a posting purportedly by LulzSec said.

So, the Government punts out a census and threatens to fine anyone failing to complete it, then they take such good care of it, it's stolen!

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Damned if you do, damned if you don't??

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Oh-No..........Bet it's the Chinese. :hmm:

 

[StubbsPKS]

LulzSec posted on their twitter account that the census hack wasn't them. They're denying credit for it.

Also, companies and governments don't realize just how hard computer security actually is. Most companies simply have a spot in the budget for things like fraud and other e-crime. It can even be as high as 5-10% sometimes. It's ridiculous how much money could be saved if a proper amount were spent securing systems in the first place.

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

LulzSec posted on their twitter account that the census hack wasn't them. They're denying credit for it.

Also, companies and governments don't realize just how hard computer security actually is. Most companies simply have a spot in the budget for things like fraud and other e-crime. It can even be as high as 5-10% sometimes. It's ridiculous how much money could be saved if a proper amount were spent securing systems in the first place.

I'd heard that dep't uses AVG free edition.

Kev

 

[Moley]

It's ridiculous how much money could be saved if a proper amount were spent securing systems in the first place.

Don't lock that 19 year old lad away in prison for the next umpteen years, give him a job with a 6 figure salary.

 

[Sean_Mc]

It's ridiculous how much money could be saved if a proper amount were spent securing systems in the first place.

Don't lock that 19 year old lad away in prison for the next umpteen years, give him a job with a 6 figure salary.

+1, but it he'll probably be dragged through various courts with the US trying to extradite him like Gary McKinnon.
Okay the LulzSec broke the law by hacking big companies and government sites, but did they use the information for any financial gain or were they just highlighting the flaws in the security systems

 

[StubbsPKS]

It's ridiculous how much money could be saved if a proper amount were spent securing systems in the first place.

Don't lock that 19 year old lad away in prison for the next umpteen years, give him a job with a 6 figure salary.

Problem is, even some of the guys who get jobs working for the government then used their new "powers" to continue scamming, hacking, carding and committing fraud :)

The guy I am thinking of is Cumbajohnny. He got $75k salary from the secret service after being caught stealing from an ATM. While working for the secret service, he managed to pull off what is believed to be the biggest fraud in cyber history. He cracked into credit and debit card databases and stole millions of identities, while simultaneously pulling his federal salary. He was sentenced in March 2010 to two concurrent 20-year prison terms.

 

[Aleman]

The only secure computer is one that is locked in a room, powered off, not connected to a network, with its hard disk sat on an electromagnet . . .The minute you add a human element security goes out of the window

 

[Wez]

Oh-No..........Bet it's the Chinese. :hmm:

Damn you! I fancy a Gung-Po Chicken now :twisted:

 

[doodles]

It's ridiculous how much money could be saved if a proper amount were spent securing systems in the first place.

Don't lock that 19 year old lad away in prison for the next umpteen years, give him a job with a 6 figure salary.

While I am a law obeying citizen myself I know a few people in computer security. The young lad is a scapegoat. He hosted an IRC channel that the hackers decided to make use of. It's essentially like them coming here and using the pm system to plan things and the site owner getting arrested.

I didn't want Lockheed Martin who are an American defense contractor collecting my information and giving it to the US government. Luckily my census details must have got lost in the post. :)

 

[Eradite]

Lockheed Martin had contracts to print documentation relating to the Census i.e. Census forms. All the Census information was/is held by ONS and no outside staff have ever had access to this database.

 

[StubbsPKS]

Lockheed Martin had contracts to print documentation relating to the Census i.e. Census forms. All the Census information was/is held by ONS and no outside staff have ever had access to this database.

Yea, most confidential documents from the UK are not allowed to be held by US companies because the US does not have an equivalent law that meets the standards of the Data Protection Act. The DPA states something along the lines of if information is passed to another country, they need to have this equivalent law in place or that company can't hold the data.

It was a big issue with my university because they moved all of the students to a Microsoft mail solution. It turns out though, that all of the servers hosting their data are in the UK and operated by the UK branch of the company therefore, MS must follow the DPA or something strange like that.