BRA Information Security Incident Analysis
On October 1st, 2024, the Barbados Today media company published an article indicating the Barbados Revenue Authority (BRA) and police are investigating a reported breach of the BRA vehicle registration data. The article references an official statement from BRA stating they were aware that some vehicle registration application information was circulating on the internet and social media and were actively investigating the incident. The article further quoted the official statement indicating, “[BRA] understands that restricting access to the vehicle registration portal is disruptive to Barbadians, and we regret the inconvenience that these necessary precautions have caused for the public.” The CBC Barbados X (Twitter) account posted an audio snippet from Minister of Industry, Innovation, Science and Technology, Marsha Caddle, on October 1st, 2024. The Minister indicated she is aware of the breach at BRA and, based on investigations at the time, the breach was isolated to the vehicle registration application.…
Ethical hackers face tough sanction
Ethical hackers who find vulnerabilities on government or private websites in Jamaica could face a $3-million fine and three-year prison sentence if a provision in the Cybercrimes Act, 2015, remains and receives the nod from Parliament. That threat could penalise actors such as Zack Whittaker, the security editor at American online newspaper TechCrunch who, last February, revealed that a cloud-storage server with uploaded documents had been left unprotected on the JamCOVID website. Read the full article here.