Canada among countries in Washington for second annual anti-ransomware summit
Canada is again one of more than two dozen countries meeting in Washington to discuss international co-operation on fighting ransomware. Dubbed the Counter Ransomware Initiative, it is the second closed-door two-day summit on ransomware convened by the United States, but this time representatives of IT companies will be there as well. They include Microsoft, Crowdstrike,
Twilio attacked for the second time by the same hackers responsible for the August hack
Twilio, a U.S. communication services provider and messaging giant, confirmed a second breach in June in which cybercriminals gained access to customer contact data from the same threat actor as the August hack. Confirmation of the second breach was buried in an update to a lengthy incident report from Twilio. “The threat actor’s access was […]
Uber Eats threatens customers with suspension for ordering alcohol too often
After monitoring how many alcohol orders a customer makes, Uber Eats threatened to suspend a customer’s account if he buys alcohol too often, angering an Australian customer. “Our systems show you’ve placed a few alcohol orders over the past few weeks.” The email was sent to an unnamed Australian customer, who then shared it on […]
Cyber Security Today, Oct. 31, 2022 – Windows servers help serve denial of service attacks, and more
This episode reports on threat actors taking advantage of a configuration problem in Active Director, a problem in IIS logs and a VMware product that has to
Liz Truss’ claim of phone hacking has sparked calls for investigation
The British government and MPs have jointly declared that Britain has a robust cybersecurity infrastructure for civil servants but want a newspaper report on former Prime Minister Liz Truss’s phone hacking while she was foreign minister investigated. According to the Mail, private messages between Ms Truss and foreign government officials, including information about the Ukraine […]
Microsoft releases emergency OOB update for OneDrive crash
Microsoft has released an emergency out-of-band (OOB) update KB5020953 for Windows 10 systems to fix the recent OneDrive crash. The KB5020953 update was released to fix the OneDrive crash issue that led to the signing out or unlinking of OneDrive accounts, websites, and folders from Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. The build numbers for this OOB […]
New open-source scanner exposes Amazon’s AWS storage buckets
Security researcher Eilon Harel was able to uncover Amazon’s AWS S3 storage buckets using an open-source “Secrets Scanner.” Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a cloud storage service used by organizations to store software, services and data in containers marked as buckets. Unable to properly back up their S3 buckets, organizations make stored data publicly […]
New EU law on digital markets enters into force on 1 November
On 1 November, the EU Digital Market Act (DMA) comes into force. The DMA proposes that big tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Meta, nicknamed gatekeepers, make their platforms more open and integrated by 2023. On 12 October 2022, the Digital Markets Act, Regulation (EU) 2022/1925, was published to define responsibilities and restrictions for […]
Elon Musk says he is creating a content moderation council for Twitter
Elon Musk has announced the formation of a “content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.” He also stated that he was not informed of Kanye West’s reinstatement on Twitter after he made anti-Semitic remarks earlier this month. Kanye said he would “go death con 3 on Jewish people,” but that he couldn’t be antisemitic “because […]
Ford and Volkswagen suspend support for joint robotaxi project
Ford and Volkswagen are ending support for their joint autonomous driving robotaxi division, Argo AI, after investing $3.6 billion. Catherine Johnsmeyer, an Argo spokeswoman, announced the closure and said that some of the remaining employees would be offered jobs at Ford or Volkswagen. Ford employees would be newly assigned to work on automated driver assist, […]
