September 2, 2022 According to Montenegro's Minister of Public Administration, Maras Dukaj, the organized cybercrime group behind the cyberattack on the Montenegrin government has demanded a ransom of $10 million. According to Dukaj, the attackers used a "special more...
September 2, 2022 Chile's National Computer Security and Incident Response Team CSIRT has announced a cyberattack on a government agency. CSIRT stated that the attack began on Thursday, August 25 and targeted Microsoft and VMWare ESXi servers operated more...
August 29, 2022 China has agreed to allow U.S. regulators audit accounting firms in China and Hong Kong, allaying fears that 200 companies, including Alibaba Group, JD.Com Inc and others, will be barred from trading on U.S. exchanges. more...
August 25, 2022 A group led by integrator Optiv Canada that includes Venafi and Ottawa-based Crypto4A Technologies has won a competitive contract to automate much of the federal government’s network device authentication process. The contract with Shared Services more...
August 19, 2022 A critical SAP vulnerability that was patched in February has been added to a U.S. government cyber agency’s list of exploited security bugs after being discussed last week at security conferences, leading to the possibility more...
August 17, 2022 A public-private agency that helps Canadian organizations shift to technologies that protect their encrypted data from being broken by quantum computers has been given a federal grant of $675,000 to help its work. Public Safety more...
August 12, 2022 Civil and voting rights experts have criticized Twitter's decision to fight the spread of misinformation in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections. Civil rights and online misinformation experts say Twitter and other technology platforms are not more...
August 9, 2022 The RCMP keeps adding new information about its court-approved use of spyware on the wireless phones of criminal suspects, leading some members of Parliament frustrated enough to demand more documents from the force. On Monday, more...
July 29, 2022 U.S. government intelligence employees should be banned for life from working for “foreign offensive operators” as one means of fighting commercial spyware, a member of a Canadian internet research group has told Congress. John Scott-Railton, more...
July 25, 2022 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 more...
