Hi Nirvan,
On 03/21/2016 04:41 PM, Tejas (Nirvan) Pagooah wrote:
>
> Firstly, from my point of view, this may be some 'old' as, if it was
> something highly sensitive, one won't wait for a 'cyber-crime' workshop
> to voice out something related to hacking. Definitely I won't wait
> forsomething big to voice out my concerns. But anyway, the good thing
> ishe did a public declaration unlike others.
>
There is also an article on defimedia.info
(
http://defimedia.info/cybercriminalite-la-base-de-donnees-du-ministere-des-infrastructures-publiques-piratee-22244).
It is said that the "hack" happened last week and the enquiry is still
on. Who is enquiring, I can't say? Was any complaint lodge at the Cyber
Crime Unit, I don't know either?
At this stage I can only congratulate the Minister for making the public
declaration, unlike others in the past that would rather cover up any
flaw in their system. Though we're a long way from achieving
praiseworthy transparency, this declaration is one good example.
>
> According to the video in the article, the minister says that someone
> did a copy of the database and that person is manipulating with the data
> stored (on that copy?) from outside ("à l'extérieur"). Something is
> wrong here. I guess he wrongly explained himself due to the lack of IT
> knowledge but as you mentioned, "piratée/hacked" isn't the right word here.
>
I understood that the person can access the database remotely and also
made a copy of the same.
Regards,
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Ish Sookun
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Received on Mon Mar 21 2016 - 13:07:56 PST