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Post by Old Chap on Oct 30, 2015 19:31:53 GMT 4
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Vatican IT Security
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Post by Vatican IT Security on Nov 1, 2015 14:34:09 GMT 4
Vatican auditor general's computer has been hackedThe Vatican Auditor general's PC has been hacked. The Gendarmerie is looking into the incident. Meanwhile, two books that publish documents on the management of the Holy See’s finances are on the way
Andrea Tornielli
vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/vaticano-vatican-vaticano-sicurezza-security-seguridad-44361/
The computer of the Auditor general of the Holy See, Libero Milone, has been hacked. The Vatican Gendarmerie has launched an investigation to find out who in the past few weeks has tried to get hold of data stored in the PC of the man who was appointed as head of the new office – created as part of the reforms being made to the Vatican finances and economic bodies – in June. Luigi Brignani revealed the news yesterday evening, on Italian television program Virus. Today, Italian newspaper Il Tempo also published a story about. The Holy See Press Office did not wish to comment on the incident, simply stating: “We have no comment to make at present”. Pope Francis put 67-year-old Milone in charge of overseeing and checking the accounts and financial statements of all the bodies, offices and institutions of the Holy See. Milone had worked at audit and consulting firm Deloitte for 32 years, eventually becoming CEO of Deloitte in Italy. Since 2007 he has worked as a consultant for a number of private companies and as a member of some boards of directors of businesses listed on the stock exchange. According to the new Statute, the Auditor’s Office has the task of overseeing the dicasteries of the Roman Curia and the institutions linked to it as well as the administrative entities of the Vatican Governorate. Next week, two books are due to be published, presenting never-before-seen documents from inside the Holy See, relating to the Vatican’s latest financial events. The authors of the two books are L’Espresso’s Emiliano Fittipaldi and Mediaset’s Gianluigi Nuzzi, respectively. Readers will recall that after his election back in 2013, Pope Francis established two commissions: one was to look into the reform of the IOR, while the other was to examine and advise on the organization of the Holy See’s economic and administrative structure. The second of these, COSEA, sifted through paperwork and accounts, suggesting reforms in order to elucidate expenditures and improve management overall. The commission’s work led to the creation of the Secretariat for the Economy, headed by Cardinal George Pell. It was no easy task and even after the new body was established, there was still internal friction between the new dicastery and the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, because of disagreements over the allocation of duties and the direction the management of finances should take. This friction is apparently one of the elements discussed in the two new books that are due to be published.
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Post by Old Chap on Nov 1, 2015 14:37:37 GMT 4
Sorry, Administration, Vatican IT Security was the title.
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Post by Old Chap on Nov 2, 2015 20:43:08 GMT 4
Vatileaks: Mgr. Vallejo and Francesca Chaouqui have been arrestedAfter being held in the Vatican for one night, the woman was released because she collaborated. The Secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See is still being detained in the Vatican. Both are accused of disclosing the confidential papers of the COSEA commission, which the two new books on Vatican finances are based onANDREA TORNIELLI vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/vallejo-vatileaks-44390/Vatican City Spanish monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda, 54, Secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See and Italian PR woman Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui, 33, are under arrest in the Vatican. The arrests have been validated but the woman was released because she collaborated in the investigations. The investigation carried out by the Vatican Gendarmerie and judiciary has apparently identified them as the alleged “poison pen letter writers” responsible for the latest document leak: two books that are yet to be published are based on the content of these documents. The books are titled “Avarizia” and “Via Crucis” and have been written by Emiliano Fittipaldi of Italian news magazine L’Espresso and journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, of Italian-based mass media company, Mediaset, respectively. Vallejo Balda and Chaouqui were both members – the former was secretary, the latter was a member – of the commission in charge of examining and advising on the organisation of the economic and administrative structure of the Holy See (COSEA), established in July 2013 to examine the accounts and papers of all dicasteries and to suggest reforms in order to elucidate expenditures and improve overall management. It was Vallejo himself, the Prefecture’s number two man, who put Chaouqui forward as a candidate for the commission (the idea is that the Prefecture will go once Curia reform is complete). But doubts and criticisms were raised in the weeks after Chaouqui’s appointment by the Pope: on Twitter, she claimed Benedict XVI had “leukaemia” while other messages she wrote, which were even more grave, took a swipe at the then Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone and Italian former minister Tremonti. Chaouqui defended herself by saying she was the victim of false accusations that stemmed from jealousies with regard to her new role and complained that strangers had been interfering with her Twitter account. In light of today’s clamorous turning point, the PR woman’s interview with journalist Denise Pardo published on the L’Espresso website on 17 September 2013, appears significant. In the interview, Chaouqui stated that she had access “to highly confidential documents” and also talked about her friendship with journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi. Upon completion of COSEA’s work, two new bodies were created in order to centralise the economic and financial management of the Holy See’s affairs and improve the efficiency and transparency of its management: the Secretariat for the Economy and the Council for the Economy. Francis appointed Australian cardinal George Pell – who up until that point had been Archbishop of Sydney and a member of the C9, the council of cardinals that assists the Pope with Curia reform – as head of the Secretary, summoning him to the Vatican. Vallejo Balda’s appointment as number two man of the economic dicastery was seen as a given. The monsignor even spoke about it in an interview with a Spanish radio station and Pell himself confirmed the news in an interview with Italian newspaper Il Sole24 Ore. But to everyone’s surprise, on 3 March 2014, Francis appointed his second personal secretary, Alfred Xuereb of Malta, as the number two man of the Secretariat for the Economy, instead of Vallejo. Francis had “inherited” Xuereb from his predecessor. The Maltese cleric had served Ratzinger beside Mgr. Georg Gänswein, in the final phase of his pontificate. As many as five members of the COSEA commission had joined the Council for the Economy, half of which is composed by lay members and the other half by cardinals: Joseph F.X. Zahra of Malta; Jean-Baptiste de Franssu of France (who later became President of the IOR);Enrique Llano Cueto of Spain; Jochen Messemer of Germany and Singapore’s former minister of foreign affairs, George Yeo. Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui was elft out. After COSEA shut up shop, Vallejo Balda, whom Chaouqui describes as the “best treasurer” the Church has seen, returned to his position as Secretary of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs, which at the time was led by Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, who was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education. Vallejo and Chaouqui made headlines in April 2014. They organised a buffet reception for 150 VIPs on the terrace of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, so that they could enjoy a rooftop view of the ceremony for the canonizations of John XXIII and John Paul II.
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Post by dominic on Apr 16, 2016 6:50:07 GMT 4
wow
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Post by alexservin on Jul 28, 2016 23:30:30 GMT 4
Someone knows if the old collection of books they have downstairs is digitalized?
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Post by congregatio on Jul 28, 2016 23:50:16 GMT 4
not all, most just the title and collection, depends a bit and some old books do not do well with the digitalization work
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