November 2, 2022 The vulnerability in OpenSSL that forced the project’s leaders to issue a security patch on Tuesday isn’t as bad as initially feared, with the hole’s severity shifted from “critical” to “high.” Still, experts say infosec more...
November 2, 2022 What was billed by the Canadian Marketing Association as a keynote speech on the Trudeau government’s proposed private-sector privacy legislation by a senior minister turned into a two-minute welcome to the CMA’s annual privacy conference. more...
November 2, 2022 Thirty-six countries, including Canada, have agreed to work together more closely fight ransomware. At the end of a two-day summit in Washington on Tuesday the countries involved in last year’s Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) agreed more...
November 2, 2022 A cybersecurity company has released a free unofficial patch to fix an actively exploited Windows bug that allows files signed with erroneous signatures to avoid Mark-of-the-Web security warnings in Windows 10 and 11. Previously, the more...
November 2, 2022 The OpenSSL project has fixed two high-severity security vulnerabilities that are being tracked as CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786. CVE-2022-3602 is an arbitrary 4-byte stack buffer overflow that may cause crashes or lead to remote code execution more...
November 2, 2022 Unhappy infosec leaders, a list not to be on and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. Ever had one of those more...
November 2, 2022 Dropbox has confirmed a data leak that gave attackers access to one of the company's GitHub accounts using stolen employee data. Dropbox is a file hosting service that provides cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud more...
November 2, 2022 According to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which is part of GCHQ and is the technical authority of the United Kingdom for cyber security, the actual effect of ransomware is uncertain, because some victims more...
November 2, 2022 According to a U.S. Treasury official, last month the Treasury Department neutralized cyberattacks by a pro-Russian hacking group, thereby avoiding disruption and proving the effectiveness of the Department's tighter framework for cybersecurity in the financial more...
November 1, 2022 This afternoon the Trudeau government begins its campaign to convince businesses that there’s nothing to fear in its second attempt to update the federal privacy law covering the private sector. Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne will more...
