January 1, 2023 In a New Year’s Eve apology, the LockBit ransomware gang has expressed regret for attacking Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children and sent a free decryptor so files can be unscrambled. According to Brett Callow, a more...
December 31, 2022 A Canadian mining company has acknowledged being hit with a ransomware attack shortly after concluding a deal worth $230 million for the sale of an exploration site in Australia. Vancouver-based Copper Mountain Mining Corp. said more...
December 30, 2022 Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, December 30th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. As the clock wound down on 2022 I looked back on the podcasts of the last more...
December 30, 2022 Our annual Cybersecurity Year in Review traditionally starts with the choice of a word or phrase that sums up the last 12 months — ransomware, huge data breaches, supply chain attacks and so on. Arguably, more...
December 29, 2022 Making cybersecurity predictions is easy (“Cybercriminals will become more inventive”). Making actionable ones for IT security leaders is much harder. We’ve assembled what we hope is a useful list of predictions from cybersecurity vendors – more...
December 29, 2022 This is the second of a two-part collection of predictions from over 40 cybersecurity vendors. Ian Pratt, global head of security for personal systems at HP Inc. — Session hijacking – where an attacker will more...
December 28, 2022 This month marks the one-year anniversary of the discovery of the Log4j2 vulnerability. Technically, it’s a 2021 cybersecurity event. However IT and infosec leaders spent much of 2022 hunting for and patching applications using the more...
December 28, 2022 This is the Year in Review podcast for 2022. I’m Howard Solomon contributing reporter on cybersecurity for IT World Canada.com. With me are Terry Cutler, head of Cyology Labs in Montreal and David Shipley head more...
December 26, 2022 Ransomware attacks are up and a huge number of phishing packages found in open-source repositories. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday, December 26th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. Today more...
December 24, 2022 Business and personal users of the LassPass password management solution are being warned to take defensive action after the company acknowledged customer information and encrypted data they had stored in the service’s digital vault were more...
