Maritime security info stolen

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: William Knowles <wk () c4i org>

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7223230%255E15319,00.html

[I'll never understand how organizations lose laptops when it only
takes less than thirty seconds to lock the laptop to something secure.
While I am teaching a class this week, and it does look a little odd,
anyone that wants my laptop when I am not in my hotel room will have
to take the toilet with them. :)  - WK]


September 10, 2003

A LAPTOP computer carrying details of Australia's maritime security 
has been stolen from the Canberra headquarters of the Department of 
Transport, according to a report.

The theft, which is being investigated by the Australian Federal 
Police, comes on top of Customs computers being stolen from Sydney 
airport last month. 

Thieves used an electronic swipe card to enter the Transport 
Department headquarters on August 22 before forcing their way into the 
security section, the Herald Sun report said. 

Cash, personal property and office equipment were stolen, along with 
the laptop, which contained a Powerpoint presentation on Australia's 
maritime security. 

Authorities were concerned that shipping containers could be used to 
smuggle biological or radiological weapons into Australia, the report 
said. 

The Federal Government is preparing to spend $100 million on 
anti-terrorist measures at container and bulk handling terminals 
nationwide, the Herald Sun said. 

Departmental sources told the newspaper the robbers appeared to have 
had an intimate knowledge of the office's layout. 

A spokeswoman for the department told the Herald Sun the theft had not 
compromised national security. 

"No classified information was taken," she said. 


 
*==============================================================*
"Communications without intelligence is noise;  Intelligence
without communications is irrelevant." Gen Alfred. M. Gray, USMC
----------------------------------------------------------------
C4I.org - Computer Security, & Intelligence - http://www.c4i.org
================================================================
Help C4I.org with a donation: http://www.c4i.org/contribute.html
*==============================================================*



-
ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org

To unsubscribe email majordomo () attrition org with 'unsubscribe isn'
in the BODY of the mail.