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Featured, News - Wednesday, June 15, 2011 16:14 - 1 Comment
WA Govt has zero IT security, says auditor
Western Australia’s auditor-general has handed down a landmark report which details the fact that none of a wide range of government departments and agencies in the state are currently able to prevent basic cyber-attacks against their IT infrastructure — or even detect that they had taken place.
In the report published today and available online in full, WA Auditor-General Colin Murphy reveals his office recently conducted “benign” cyber-attacks on 15 different departments and agencies in the state, including major departments such as the Departments of Education and Health, those with sensitive information such as Legal Aid WA and the Department of the Attorney-General, and others such as Lotterywest.
The first wave of attacks saw preliminary scans conducted on agencies’ networks by the Security Research Centre at Edith Cowan University, using publicly available software downloaded for free from the Internet. “These preliminary scans were deliberately hostile (prolonged and continuous) in a best effort to have our activity detected without making the test a denial of service (DoS),” the report states.
The second stage, which attacked three agencies, saw information gained from the scan used to exploit security vulnerabilities, with the aim of accessing government information.
In a separate attack, the Office of the Auditor-General took a different approach, physically scattering 25 USB keys around 15 different departments and agencies, with about half left in areas open to the public such as in reception or cafeteria, and half left in are not accessible to the public.








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