January 3, 2024 The office of Canadian Senator Amina Gerba has confirmed the Quebec parliamentarian’s account on the X/Twitter social media platform was hacked this week. Senator Amina Gerba Walter Calderon, the Senator’s executive assistant, made the confirmation more...
January 3, 2024 Cybercrooks have increased the number of new or stolen Gold checkmarked accounts from the X/Twitter platform offered for sale; they are a valuable way for threat actors to push links to malware on the social more...
January 2, 2024 A major cybersecurity company is urging governments to forbid all organizations in their countries from paying ransomware gangs, arguing it would at least make crooks shift from hitting critical infrastructure providers such as hospitals, utilities more...
December 29, 2023 There’s usually a word or phrase that sums up my annual Cybersecurity Year in Review. “Lack of resilience” was 2022’s theme, highlighting the Canada-wide outage at Rogers Communications. “A crazy mess” was 2021’s theme, because more...
December 20, 2023 Thousands of images of sexually abused children scraped from the internet are part of a commonly-used database used to train artificial intelligence image generators, according to a report, which warns that AI applications can use more...
December 20, 2023 Rite Aid, an American drug store chain, will be banned by a regulator from using facial recognition applications to identify suspicious customers for five years because of the way it implemented the technology. The U.S. more...
December 19, 2023 U.S. authorities have confirmed the disruption of the AlphV/BlackCat ransomware gang, including the seizure of several of the group’s data leak and communications sites and the publication of a decrypter that victim organizations can use more...
December 17, 2023 Google has recently announced modifications to its Location History data management, aiming to reduce its capacity to comply with geofence warrants. These warrants, often used by law enforcement in the US, request information about all more...
December 15, 2023 One of the biggest public school boards in Southern Ontario has publicly acknowledged a cyber attack, over a month after it was detected. The York Region District School Board, which covers an area stretching from more...
December 15, 2023 Almost 7 million U.S. residents are being notified by a dental benefits provider that their personal information was stolen in one of the biggest single attacks involving the MOVEit file transfer application. Delta Dental of more...
