Magistrates union sounds alarm about database security

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 14 - Giuseppe Santalucia, the president of Italian magistrates union ANM, on Monday wrote to Justice Minister Carlo Nordio asking for a meeting to discuss the issue of the security of judicial databases.
    The move comes with Perugia prosecutors probing 14 people, including finance police officer Pasquale Striano, in relation to alleged illegal access to the data of numerous public figures including politicians and celebrities while he was in service in the National Anti-mafia Prosecutor's Department.
    "Recent news reports on criminal investigations for multiple abusive accesses to the computer systems of the justice network have created alarm among magistrates over the poor security levels of the devices and platforms used in the daily exercise of their delicate functions," Santalucia wrote in the letter.
    "The perception is that the IT security structures of the entire justice network are not adequate at all, and it would be useful for the ANM, via which most of the widespread concerns are channelled, to have some information, within the limits of what is possible, that could reassure or in any case give the correct idea o the scale of the phenomenon described in alarming terms in the media". (ANSA).