October 6, 2022 Paige Thompson, who was found guilty by a jury in June of wire fraud, unauthorized access to a protected computer and computer damage, was sentenced to a five-year probation with location and computer monitoring, and more...
October 6, 2022 A joint alert by CISA, the FBI, and the NSA revealed a cyberattack in which spies hid and stole sensitive data from a U.S. contractor's corporate network for several months. It remains unknown how the more...
October 5, 2022 Former Uber Technologies chief security officer (CSO) Joe Sullivan has been convicted by a jury of hiding a 2016 data breach from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Bloomberg News reported the San Francisco jury rejected more...
October 5, 2022 Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, a former Netwalker ransomware affiliate, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $21.5 million for his attacks on a company in Tampa and other companies. Vachon-Desjardins, a 34-year-old Canadian, more...
October 4, 2022 A Canadian university is adding to its cybersecurity-related graduate programs for infosec pros who want to beef up their resumes. Toronto’s York University said its school of continuing studies is launching a Post-Graduate Certificate in more...
October 4, 2022 A Montreal-area defence supplier is one of the latest Canadian firms to be hit by ransomware, the second military-related North American company the AlphV/BlackCat gang has struck in recent days. On October 1st, the AlphV/BlackCat more...
October 4, 2022 CISOs increasingly brief boards on their organization’s cybersecurity strategies and risk profile. But a new survey of directors suggests sometimes it’s a game of broken telephone. On average, 65 per cent of the board members more...
October 4, 2022 Researchers have warned that mitigations published by Microsoft to fix two new Microsoft Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities can be circumvented by hackers. In a tweet, security expert Jang explained that Microsoft's temporary solution to prevent the more...
October 3, 2022 Warnings to Exchange and Comm100 administrators, and how the CIA might have messed up. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday, October 3rd, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. Microsoft Exchange more...
October 3, 2022 Lazarus, a North Korean ransomware gang is exploiting a Dell hardware driver flaw for Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver attack. A Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attack occurs when an attacker loads legitimate signed more...
