UNDP WATCH: hacking

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Hackers publish access credentials for UN staff (UNDP)

The group appears to have been motivated by antipathy towards the UN.

A hacker group calling itself Teampoison has posted access credentials and email addresses for several hundred UN staff online. The origin of the access credentials is unclear. Since many of the email addresses belong to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), they may be the result of a hack of one of its servers.

If the data is indeed the result of a hack, it would appear that the UN does not enforce any password guidelines. The passwords were not stored in encrypted form and there was no minimum length requirement. Some accounts appear not even to have a password.

The group's manifesto on Pastebin harangues the UN as "the bureaucratic head of NATO" and "the Senate for Global Corruption".

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1. UNDP’s partnership with the World Bank needs to be more effective, particularly in fragile and crisis-affected countries. 2. UNDP’s near universal mandate means its technical resources are spread very thinly. The Board does not provide strategic direction. HR management is weak. It has a weak results chain. 3. There is limited evidence of active senior management consideration of cost control. Country evidence points to mixed progress on demonstrating cost-efficiency. 4. The Executive Board is politicised and there is a lack of consensus on the key areas for reform. It is not clear that current plans for change will deliver the required depth and breadth of reform. 5. Evidence gathered at country level was highly critical of UNDP’s ability to deliver results. Its delivery can be undermined by staffing issues and bureaucratic processes. 6. Its performance in fragile states is mixed. It has reasonable training and a range of guidance and analytical tools but struggles to fill posts. 7. There is no evidence that the Climate Strategy was directly guiding resource allocation decisions

H.E. Dirk Niebel - German Development Minister

"I take the accusations made in the media concerning corruption and breach of fiduciary duty at the Global Fund very seriously and I am sure that the Fund will clarify the matter without delay. Germany is one of the biggest donors to the Global Fund. I have therefore seen to it that a special review will be held. I have frozen all further disbursements to the Fund until matters have been fully clarified, and I will ask a representative of the Fund to come to the BMZ to discuss the matter."

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