November 18, 2022 A cyber attack on a Texas-based cloud provider of emergency responder applications has impacted around 100 Canadian paramedic ambulance services, most of them in Ontario. Haldimand County’s Paramedic Services is one of them. Today it more...
November 18, 2022 A new ransomware strain has been detected by researchers at BlackBerry, who say it has been seen hitting organizations in Canada, China, Chile, and Columbia. Dubbed ARCrypter, because the unique strings “ARC” were found in more...
November 18, 2022 Application developers can reduce the odds of their code including memory vulnerabilities by changing to a modern language, says the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). In an advisory, the agency urges developers to think about more...
November 18, 2022 A warning about Amazon RDS snapshots, a new ransomware strain found, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, November 18th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. Organizations using Amazon’s more...
November 18, 2022 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have issued a new joint alert that includes detailed information about known Hive more...
November 18, 2022 Swiss authorities arrested Ukrainian citizen Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, who was wanted by the FBI for 12 years for his involvement in a cyber-criminal group that stole millions of dollars from bank accounts using Zeus malware. more...
November 17, 2022 Iranian government-backed hackers allegedly compromised the Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) for months in order to deploy XMRig cryptomining malware, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI. As early as more...
November 17, 2022 FBI Director Christopher Wray has testified before a House committee that China has stolen more American data than any other country combined. He claims that TikTok is one method of stealing this data, and that more...
November 16, 2022 The poor state of cybersecurity of some of Ontario’s school boards, child welfare agencies, municipalities, and hospitals worries the head of the province’s expert panel that just evaluated the condition of the broader public sector. more...
November 16, 2022 Canada ranks fifth among 20 countries in its preparation for and response to cybersecurity threats, according to a standard created by an academic journal and a security vendor. The Cyber Defence Index, created by MIT more...
