January 26, 2023 A British Columbia community college says personal information of some students and employees may have been copied by a cyber attacker earlier this month. Okanagan College, which has 17,000 students and 1,100 employees across several more...
January 26, 2023 The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized the website of the Hive ransomware gang after penetrating the group’s computer networks. The agency said Thursday it penetrated the networks in July, 2022, leading to more...
January 26, 2023 Many boards don’t make put privacy as one of their organization’s priorities, a survey of professionals suggests. According to the annual state of privacy survey of members of ISACA (formerly known as the Information Systems more...
January 26, 2023 The Canadian division of Home Depot didn’t get customers’ consent before sharing details of customers’ e-receipts – including encoded email addresses and in-store purchase information – with Facebook parent Meta Platforms, says Canada’s privacy commissioner. more...
January 25, 2023 Data Privacy Week advice, terrible patching statistics and more Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, January 25th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. This is more...
January 25, 2023 LearnPress, a WordPress LMS plugin, has released security updates to address multiple critical vulnerabilities that affected approximately 75,000 WordPress sites. One of flaws is CVE-2022-47615; where an unauthenticated local file inclusion allows an attacker to more...
January 25, 2023 According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress' auditing and investigative arm, it has been shouting into the void since 2010, with approximately 60% of its 335 cybersecurity recommendations not being implemented. Since 2010, more...
January 25, 2023 GoTo Technologies, the parent company of password manager LastPass, has informed its customers that during a recent breach of its systems, hackers obtained encrypted backups and an encryption key to access some of them. According more...
January 24, 2023 The increasing number of employees working remotely today is causing grey hairs for infosec and business leaders with cybersecurity responsibilities, according to a new Cisco Systems survey. Eighty-four per cent of the 6,700 respondents surveyed more...
January 24, 2023 The U.S. Justice Department and eight U.S. states are suing Google for allegedly monopolizing online advertising. The complaint, filed Tuesday in Virginia, alleges that Google monopolizes key digital advertising technologies, collectively referred to as the more...
