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Canadian Computer Breaches Exposed

Jeremy Loome writes on The Edmonton Sun:

Security holes at Alberta's government offices and educational institutions contributed to computer network breaches at Alberta Health and Grant MacEwan College, according to the auditor general.

They were the most serious among dozens of security protocol issues at just about every level of government and the education community. In many, the breaches were as simple as not having proper password policies in place.

But in the cases of Mac-Ewan College and the health department, the breaches potentially exposed their networks. MacEwan left unfettered Internet access to private financial documents, while Alberta Health logged unknown, unauthorized connections during occasional security checks.

It's impossible to tell in either case whether important personal information was stolen.

posted by Fergie @ 10/04/2007 08:30:00 PM