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The post Watchdog says 2020 Census systems are riddled with security flaws appeared first on BardTech . With a census just two years away, the Census Bureau has a cybersecurity problem. That’s a key takeaway from the congressional watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, which oversees the government’s spending. In a new report published Thursday, the non-partisan agency said that the government’s Census Bureau has only a few months to fix thousands of security vulnerabilities that may put personal citizen data at risk. The census, conducted by the federal government decennially, provides the government data on the population. Ahead of the 2020 census, the Bureau began testing all 44 key systems necessary to support the new option of allowing citizens to send their responses over the internet, a scheme that will save the government billions of dollars . The two-year test, set to complete in April 2019, has found close to 3,100 security issues and weaknesses, the report ...

The post Air Canada confirms mobile app data breach appeared first on BardTech . Air Canada has confirmed a data breach on its mobile app, which the airline said may affect 20,000 people — or 1 percent — of its 1.7 million app users. The company said it had “detected unusual log-in behavior” occurring between August 22-24. According to an email to customers, attackers may have accessed basic profile data, including names, email addresses and phone numbers — but also more sensitive data that users may have added to their profiles, including passport numbers and expiry date, passport country of issuance, NEXUS numbers for trusted travelers, gender, dates of birth, nationality and country of residence. But credit card data was not accessed, the airline said. It’s not known if there was a direct breach of Air Canada’s systems or if hackers attempted to reuse passwords from other sites that may have also been used on Air Canada’s mobile app. When reached, an Air Canada spokesper...