Many Irish politicians have unsafe websites where any private information shared by the public could be intercepted, manipulated or stolen, according to a new study. Irish politicians performed particularly poorly when ranked against the US, where just 26 per cent of representatives were found to have insecure websites. The other leading countries in terms of secure political websites were the UK, Germany, Austria and Denmark. However, Irish political representatives were far from being the worst offenders. In South Korea, a region long praised for its super-fast internet connections, 92 per cent of politicians’ websites were not secure.

Source: The Irish Times March 07, 2019 05:37 UTC