Canadian-based gold miner among the latest MOVEit data breach victims
Barrick Gold of Toronto, a Texas credit union and a U.S. regional healthcare system are the named latest victims by the Clop th
Cyber Security Today, July 5, 2023 – Advice to firms on the right way to collect personal data
A look back at Canadian privacy commissioners’ report into problems with the Tim Hortons
EU Court rules on General Data Protection Regulation compliance
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that national competition authorities can review whether a data processing operation complies with the requirements set out in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The case concerned the German Federal Cartel Office’s (FCO) decision to prohibit Meta Platforms Ireland from processing the off-Facebook data of its users […]
Virgin Media email outage persists
More than two weeks after the initial outage, some Virgin Media email users are still unable to access their inboxes. The problem, which was caused by a hardware failure, has had a significant impact on customers, some of whom have lost important emails and documents. Virgin Media has apologized for the inconvenience and is working […]
IBM Cloud for Education abandoned after two years
IBM has deprecated its Cloud for Education service, which was launched just two years ago. The service offered a handful of research-centric VM types pre-configured with apps like IBM’s SPSS statistical software. IBM launched the service in April 2021, when it stated that it was essential to make computing lab resources accessible off-campus as educational […]
Google quantum computer attains quantum supremacy
Google scientists have completed a task on a quantum computer that would take a supercomputer 47 years to finish. The study, published on ArXiv, describes how they used Google’s upgraded quantum computer with 70 qubits, which are the equivalent of classical computer bits. The task was a random circuit sampling calculation, which involves running random […]
TSA plans to expand facial recognition program
America’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is planning to expand its facial recognition program to 430 domestic airports in the United States. The program, which is currently being piloted at 25 airports, uses Idemia’s biometric technology to scan passengers’ faces and verify their identity. The TSA says that the program has boosted identity verification efficiency without […]
Subreddit “r/pics” goes NSFW as part of Reddit protest
The backlash over Reddit’s API modifications is far from done, with subreddits like r/pics with over 30 million users labelling themselves NSFW (not safe for work), thereby blocking Reddit from displaying adverts alongside their postings. The crisis began in mid-June, when 6,500 subreddits banded together to call for a blackout in protest of Reddit’s intention […]
Meta schedules July 6 for Threads launch
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will debut Threads on July 6. The software is intended to compete with Twitter, and users will be able to send text updates, photographs, and videos with their followers. Threads will connect to Instagram, enabling users to use the same username and followers on both platforms, signalling […]
338,000 unpatched FortiGate firewalls vulnerable to critical bug
According to Bishop Fox, despite a patch provided in June, a critical bug in FortiGate firewalls that might allow attackers to take control of devices has not been addressed on more than 338,000 devices. CVE-2023-27997, with a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10, is a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability that affects FortiOS and FortiProxy […]
