State must tighten up its IT security

There might be those who accuse this newspaper of jeopardizing state security or threatening the personal data of millions by exposing how childishly simple it is to hack into our government's data base network.

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In putting together our package of stories today, we were cognisant of two things: being careful not to give away "actionable" intelligence which would enable hackers to penetrate these networks... and that most of what we reveal is common knowledge anyway in the cyber community. And particularly among those denizens of that murky place known as the "Dark Web".