Information leaked from Montreal police SPVM website not sensitive and already public
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Published on May 22, 2015
Published on Mar 21, 2013
Wed, Mar 20: Terry Cutler CTO and Certified Ethical Hacker with Digital Locksmiths discusses the potential data breach at SPVM revealing sensitive information which was confirmed to be fake by Montreal Police.
The information pulled off the Montreal police's website and put into a Dropbox by an unknown individual or group this week wasn't sensitive to begin with, said Montreal police spokesman Cmdr. Ian Lafrenière.
The names, job details and office phone numbers of about 100 employees were posted online in a free file-sharing program.
But Lafrenière said the details released are not sensitive and were already publicly accessible on the Internet.
"It's information that you can gather yourself," he said.
"It's not even a secret, it's not even illegal, but putting all that together in a Dropbox -- for us, we consider that as intimidation."
Though he said it may not have been illegal to gather the information, making it available in one location, accompanied by pictures of people named by the group as undercover officers, amounts to police intimidation -- which is illegal.
"There is an investigation because this is clearly intimidation," Lafrenière said.
He said the pictures in the Dropbox were not of undercover agents, but rather just ordinary people presumed by those behind the attack to be officers.
"I got bad news for them: a lot of pictures they put there, it's not even a police officer. We know these people and they are not police officers," he said.
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Terry Cutler is the founder of Cyology Labs, Inc. (http://www.CyologyLabs.com) and serves as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. Terry’s career in the IT security space prior to his joining Cyology Labs has been long and distinguished. He was most recently the Founder of Digital Locksmiths, and IT security firm based in Montreal where he resigned in early 2015. Before Digital Locksmiths, he was a Premium Support Engineer for Novell in Canada where he analyzed network vulnerabilities and transitioned security technologies into production, and before that he held digital security leadership roles with a number of large corporations.
Terry is a Certified Ethical Hacker who has learned the mindset of hackers and trained in the techniques of “the bad guys” who seek to do harm to corporations and individuals alike. He is responsible for staying on top of the latest trends in cybersecurity and being an advocate for best practices in the identification and eradication of vulnerabilities that leave the customers of Cyology Labs susceptible to the most dangerous threats. Another one of Terry’s roles is to be a thought leader for Cyology Labs by sharing his expert insights about effective digital security strategies and countermeasures through his writings, speaking engagements, and media interviews.
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