Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Australian MP claims calendar-sharing ‘security breach’

<p>Liberal backbencher Alby Schultz has questioned whether a calendar-sharing feature of Microsoft's email program Outlook amounts to a security breach for members of parliament (MPs).</p><p>Schultz told parliament that he had discovered the "serious security issue" last Thursday, when it was brought to his attention that people using Outlook could see an MP's meeting schedule upon receiving an email from the MP.</p><p>"This issue involved the ability of people viewing an email ... to gain visual access to the member's Outlook calendar by simply hovering the cursor over the email address," he told the lower house on Monday.</p><p>He raised the matter with the Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS), which administers the parliamentary computer network. This led to one of his staff members in his Cowra electorate office having access to their calendar revoked, but this was restored after his office complained, he said.</p><p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/au/australian-mp-claims-calendar-sharing-security-breach-7000004402/">Keep reading...</a></p>

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