Toronto Symphony Sideswiped By WordFly Ransomware Attack
One of Canada’s biggest orchestras is among North American organizations victimized by a ransomware attack earlier this month on WordFly, a digital communications and marketing platform used by arts, entertainment, culture and sports firms. On Monday afternoon, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra — which uses WordFly as an email provider — notified subscribers by email of
‘Outages happen,’ Telecom Regulator Tells Parliamentary Committee Looking Into Rogers Crisis
The head of Canada’s telecommunications regulator said this month’s huge internet and wireless network failure at Rogers could result in more regulation of the industry, but also suggested there is nothing the regulator can do can prevent service interruptions. “Outages happen,” CRTC chair Ian Scott told the House of Commons Industry committee looking into the
More Conditions May Be Imposed On Telcos As Result Of Rogers Outage, Says Government
Rogers says network outage couldn’t be
Ontario Town Still Recovering From Ransomware Attack
A small Ontario town is in the fifth day of dealing with a ransomware attack that has encrypted data. St. Marys, Ont., a town of about 7,500 just over an hour and a half drive north-west of Toronto, says critical municipal services, including fire, police, transit, and water/wastewater systems were unaffected by the incident and
Chess Robot Breaks Seven-year-old Boy’s Finger In Russia
According to Russian news agencies, a robot broke the finger of a seven-year-old boy during a chess match in Moscow last week. Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, confirmed the incident to the Tass news agency. Lazarov explained that the incident happened at the Moscow Chess Open after the boy rushed the robot. […]
Microsoft 365 Outage Was Caused By A Faulty ECS
Microsoft has identified a faulty Enterprise Configuration Service (ECS) deployment as the root cause of the outage, which affected several of the company’s services. ECS is an internal central configuration repository that enables Microsoft services to make far-reaching dynamic changes across multiple services and functions. ECS also makes changes to specific configurations per tenant or […]
Uber Admits Covering Up 2016 Data Breach
As part of a settlement agreement, Uber has admitted to covering a 2016 data breach that affected 57 million passengers and drivers. The company is also cooperating with the prosecution of former security chief Joseph Sullivan for his alleged role in covering up the attack. U.S. Attorney Stephanie Hinds said Uber waited about a year […]
Mozilla Report Calls For Regulation As Solution to Artificial Intelligence Harm
Mozilla’s new Internet Health 2022 report calls for urgent regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a solution to the harm it causes. According to the report, there is a power gap between those who benefit from AI and those who are harmed by AI. The report shows that centralizing influence and control over AI, while […]
Social Media Stocks Decline As Advertisers Tighten Spending
Advertisers are cutting spending forecast for this year, which is having a negative impact on social media companies as their shares continue to fall. At current prices, Pinterest, Meta, Twitter, Alphabet, and Snap all lost about US$42 billion in market value. Pinterest shares plunged 11.3% Meta Platforms fell 5.6%, Alphabet fell 3.3%, and Snap fell […]
Cyber Security Today, July 25, 2022 – Public hearings on the Rogers outage start today, a data breach at Entrust and patches issued for SonicWall and Confluence products
This podcast has a backgrounder on today’s public hearing on the Rogers outaage
