December 12, 2022 Participants in the Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 hacking competition earned $400,000 on the first day, and a total of $989,750 on the final day for new exploits targeting phones, printers, routers, and NAS devices. 26 teams more...
December 11, 2022 Twelve months after police charged two men with compromising Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine management system, the province has identified and started notifying the 360,000 residents whose personal data was copied. The Canadian Press reports the government more...
December 9, 2022 Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday, December 9th, 2022. From Toronto, I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. In a few minutes more...
December 9, 2022 Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday, December 9th, 2022. From Toronto, I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. In a few minutes more...
December 9, 2022 Several models of Cisco Systems’ IP phones have a high-severity vulnerability, the company has acknowledged, but a patch won’t be available until January. Nor is there a workaround for the Cisco Discovery Protocol processing feature more...
December 9, 2022 A ransomware attack in October accessed 623,774 patients' patient information, according to Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health. Beginning in early October, the cyberattack caused significant IT outages and consultation instabilities across the health system's nationwide network of more...
December 9, 2022 As part of a new spear-phishing campaign, the Iran-linked MuddyWater threat actor has been recognized trying to target numerous countries in the Middle East, as well as Central and West Asia. The group sends phishing more...
December 9, 2022 Toronto Pwn2Own contest awards close to $1 million in prizes, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, December 9th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. The Toronto edition of more...
December 9, 2022 According to Google's Threat Analysis Group, North Korean state-sponsored hackers used a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer known as CVE-2022-41128 (CVSS score of 8.8) in one of Windows JavaScript scripting languages, JScript9, the more...
December 9, 2022 Researchers have uncovered Zombinder service, which enables cybercriminals to easily embed malware into legitimate apps and steal data. ThreatFabric researchers discovered the new threat called Zombinder, which allows cybercriminals to attach malicious software to legitimate more...
