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CRA’s computer network security suffers from ‘lack of monitoring:’ Audit

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Filing your Canadian taxes digitally?

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You may have cause to be concerned about how secure your information is, according to an internal audit, says Blacklock’s Reporter.

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The audit says computer security at the Canada Revenue Agency — which has more than 27 million individual and corporate tax filers — is still uneven years after hackers breached the accounts of taxpayers.

“There was a lack of monitoring,” said the audit, blaming “a lack of management oversight.”

Revenue Agency managers “were not always aware of, or did not clearly understand, the security assessment and authorization process, more specifically for monitoring,” wrote auditors.

“Addressing security in the early stages of information technology projects and throughout the information system’s life cycle is vital to ensuring security is integrated into the design, that security objectives are met and that planning and resources are optimized.”

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CRA’s website was shut down for six days in 2014 following a cyberattack, with hundreds of Social Insurance Numbers stolen.

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Investigators determined the cyberattack went unnoticed for six hours before the system was shut down.

Six years later in 2020, thousands of tax records were breached in a second cyberattack and managers promised tighter security.

“The Canada Revenue Agency has one of the largest information technology environments and repositories of personal and financial information in the Government of Canada,” wrote auditors.

“Ninety percent of income tax and benefit returns and 94% of corporate income tax returns were filed digitally. It is essential for the agency to meet Canadians’ expectations for delivering client service while maintaining trust that their information will be protected from potential data breaches and identity theft.”

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  • AVG Technologies
  • Juniper Networks
  • ESET
  • Cisco
  • H3C Technologies
  • Check Point
  • Huawei
  • Microsoft
  • Fortinet
  • Trend Micro
  • FireEye
  • Intel Security
  • Kaspersky
  • Palo Alto Networks
  • NSFOCUS
  • Dell
  • ATandT Cybersecurity
  • Symantec
  • Hewlett Packard
  • IBM

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Georgia official’s dismissal of security audit could mean trouble in 2024

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For the second time in four years, Georgia’s secretary of state stands at the center of a fight over the legitimacy of a U.S. presidential election. Only now, Brad Raffensperger — the Republican who once stood up to Donald Trump’s election fraud lies — is the one security experts see as the problem.

In a letter sent to state lawmakers last week, Raffensperger argues that a newly unsealed audit finding that there are dangerous vulnerabilities in Georgia’s widely used voting machine software is overblown and no fixes are needed.

“It’s more likely that I could win the lottery without buying a ticket” than that hackers flip enough votes to swing the election, he says in the letter.

But Raffensperger’s dismissive reaction to the unsparing audit conducted by security expert Alex Halderman has turned him into an object of intense criticism from cybersecurity specialists, who say he is painting legitimate research with the brush of far-right conspiracy theories — and imperiling the 2024 elections in the process.

“Raffensperger has lumped us with the election deniers,” said David Jefferson, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and an expert on election technology. “But we cannot, out of fear of that confusion, stop talking about these vulnerabilities. They are real, they are there, and they must be addressed.”

Before its release last week, the analysis of Dominion Voting Systems’ ImageCastX ballot-marking devices was kept under seal for roughly two years as part of a long-running legal dispute between Raffensperger and local voting rights activists arguing the machines need to be replaced by hand-marked paper ballots.

Georgia is one of just two states in the country to use these ballot-marking devices as the primary form of voting across every precinct, and the plaintiffs — a Georgia-based non-profit group called the Coalition for Good Governance — have alleged its dependence on them is unacceptably risky because of the way the ImageCastX records voter’s choices: via machine-printed barcodes voters can’t corroborate with their own eyes.

The state has maintained throughout the court challenge that it has adequate…

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Amherst Central tightens internet security after audit

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Amherst Central School District has tightened access to the district’s information network following an audit from the office of State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

The audit discovered there were more than 1,000 user accounts accessing the district network that belonged to former students or staff, including one who retired more than 20 years ago.

While the audit warned that there was a significant risk that the district’s network resources, financial data and student information could intentionally or unintentionally be changed or used inappropriately, it did not say there was any evidence of hacking.

In the district’s response to the audit, Superintendent Anthony J. Panella said Amherst Central put corrective actions in place during the course of the audit, which covered July 1, 2020 to July 7, 2022.

“The district is committed to putting corrective actions into place for any findings listed in the final report,” Panella said in his response.

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The audit said as many as 1,570 accounts were unneeded, but had not been disabled.

Auditors looked at 5,078 network user accounts and found that 2,902 were assigned to current enrolled students, while 1,402 were assigned to students that were not currently enrolled. Others were assigned to non-students or shared user accounts.

There were 90 network accounts still active for people who had left the district, auditors said, writing that “former employee network accounts should be disabled on the day the employee leaves district employment.”

“Because the district’s network had unnecessary enabled network user accounts, it had a greater risk that these accounts could have been used as entry points for attackers to compromise IT resources,” the audit said.

District officials told auditors that the accounts went unnoticed because the district did not have written policies and procedures to disable network accounts.

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