IT chaos in Brandenburg: LKA because of security incident under criticism!
IT chaos in Brandenburg: LKA because of security incident under criticism!
A massive IT security incident currently shakes the security authorities in Brandenburg. According to Tagesspiegel The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has hired data exchange with state protection at the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) Brandenburg. The reason for this: fears about a possible data leak that could endanger sensitive information. According to reports, the WLAN and a network memory with passwords for the BKA server was insufficiently secured, which at risk the security situation. So far, the Brandenburg security authorities have not commented on the allegations.
Investigations into computer sabotage
In parallel to these events, the Berlin police registered a massive increase in email reports to your internet guard. As the police announced on Twitter, the internet guard can still be reached without loss of quality despite the high load. The cybercrime department at the LKA has already started investigations into computer sabotage. However, these increased frequencies of messages lead to significant delays in processing, with a backlog of about two to three hours. It is emphasized that if the e-mail volume increases, the operation of the internet guard may have to be temporarily stopped. This is very reminiscent of the latest cyber attacks that Berlin and other federal states have hit in which public online services were temporarily affected, as also mentioned in the report by rbb24These incidents throw a bright light on the current situation of IT security in Germany. Again and again weaknesses in the systems that are responsible for the protection of sensitive data are shown and concerns about the safety of the digital infrastructure are growing. ”
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