{"id":14431,"date":"2013-04-04T13:02:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T12:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=14431"},"modified":"2013-04-04T13:02:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T12:02:31","slug":"irish-government-to-run-cyber-security-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=14431","title":{"rendered":"Irish Government To Run Cyber Security Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconrepublic.com\/strategy\/item\/32141-irish-government-to-run-cyb\" target=\"_blank\">According<\/a> to Silicon Republic, the Irish government is to run some cyber war games to test their responses and resilience to digital attacks.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019ll be interesting; a few years ago the Irish government decided to implement a <em>very <\/em>unpopular and ineffective DNS-based copyright (and potentially censoring) system that drew the attention of a certain Guy-Fawkes-mask wearing hacktivist group.&#160; In no time at all the hackers posted admin <a href=\"http:\/\/ethicalhackingtip.blogspot.ie\/2012\/02\/irish-government-website-passwords.html\" target=\"_blank\">passwords<\/a> from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), a group you\u2019d expect to have superior security.&#160; I saw the list, and it was not much better than \u201cMonkey\u201d or \u201cPassword1\u201d \u2026 actually \u201cPassword1\u201d might have been one of them!<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the results of the tests will result in real changes to practices and design.&#160; I\u2019m sceptical; I reckon tests\/results will be moulded to minimise \u201cbad results\u201d and a knock on image.&#160; Plus an admin who uses \u201cPassword1\u201d in a so-called-secure environment is the sort who won\u2019t want to change.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Folks from efficient countries will think I\u2019m being a cynic \u2013 people who live in Ireland know exactly what I mean (e-voting machines where the admin password was in the publicly available help button, a 10 year SAP project that exceeds departmental budgets, digital ticketing for public transport that makes us want to use paper stripe cards like most Euro cities, and so on).<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ae3d76b4-bfd6-4584-b5b3-28329d558307\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Security\" rel=\"tag\">Security<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Silicon Republic, the Irish government is to run some cyber war games to test their responses and resilience to digital attacks.&#160; That\u2019ll be interesting; a few years ago the Irish government decided to implement a very unpopular and ineffective DNS-based copyright (and potentially censoring) system that drew the attention of a certain Guy-Fawkes-mask &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=14431\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Irish Government To Run Cyber Security Tests&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-14431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}