February 23, 2023 Canada’s federal privacy commissioner, along with three provincial privacy commissioners, has started an investigation into TikTok, examining how the video-streaming platform collects the personal data of Canadian users. The investigation is beginning now because class more...
February 23, 2023 Apple has recently issued security warnings about three new zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by attackers to take control of users' devices. The vulnerabilities affect iPhones, iPads, and Macs, and are present in more...
February 23, 2023 According to a cybersecurity research team, sensitive information, including email addresses and phone numbers of U.S. military personnel, was exposed due to a misconfigured cloud storage account. The compromised data was linked to a third-party more...
February 22, 2023 Two weeks after suffering a cyber attack, Indigo Books and Music has acknowledged it was hit by ransomware and employee data was compromised. “On February 8, 2023, Indigo experienced a ransomware attack,” the company says more...
February 22, 2023 IBM’s annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, an analysis of data gathered from network sensors and incident investigations, is filled with a dizzying array of numbers about breaches of security controls. But arguably only one is more...
February 22, 2023 WhatsApp users have been warned that a stranger may be receiving their private WhatsApp messages and may also be able to send messages to all of their contacts if they change their phone number but more...
February 21, 2023 The federal government is giving a Toronto startup an opportunity to prove that its fledgling technology could help protect today’s encrypted Canadian communications from being hacked by quantum computers. Quantum Bridge Technologies (QBT) said this more...
February 21, 2023 A U.S.-based data aggregator that allows consumers to connect their accounts with a variety of financial institutions through one app has now added its identity verification service for Canadian organizations. Last week, Plaid Financial began more...
February 21, 2023 Cloudflare has disclosed that it managed to protect its network and its customers from the largest DDoS attack in history. According to Cloudflare, the attacks originated from over 30,000 IP addresses and targeted businesses such more...
February 20, 2023 A business email scam group is broken in Europe, GoDaddy’s IT system hit again and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday, February 20th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com more...
