August 26, 2022 Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review for the week ending Friday, August 26th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. In a few minutes David Shipley, head more...
August 26, 2022 LastPass has released a security advisory confirming a breach via a compromised developer account that attackers used to gain access to the company's developer environment. Upon gaining access, the attacker stole the company's source code more...
August 26, 2022 Protect your Active Directory servers, a huge text-based phishing scam found and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, August 26th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. Microsoft is urging more...
August 25, 2022 LastPass, a major password management provider, has acknowledged some of its source code was recently stolen after one of its developer accounts was hacked. Some proprietary information was also stolen, the company said Thursday. “After more...
August 25, 2022 Researchers at Mitiga have uncovered a new Business Email Compromise (BEC) campaign that uses sophisticated spear phishing and Adversary-in-The-Middle (AiTM) tactics to gain access to corporate executives' Microsoft 365 accounts. According to researchers, the attackers more...
August 25, 2022 A group led by integrator Optiv Canada that includes Venafi and Ottawa-based Crypto4A Technologies has won a competitive contract to automate much of the federal government’s network device authentication process. The contract with Shared Services more...
August 25, 2022 Researchers have discovered a Google Chrome extension called Internet Download Manager, which is an adware and has been downloaded by more than 200,000 users. Although the extension installs a well-known and legitimate download manager program, more...
August 25, 2022 Plex, a major provider of media streaming services, has confirmed a cyberattack in which attackers stole password data and emails from at least half of its 30 million customers. In the email to customers, they more...
August 25, 2022 The American Data and Privacy Protection Act will give users more control over their data, which has long been largely used by technology companies without consent. The bill has already passed the U.S. House of more...
August 25, 2022 Security provider Barracuda analyzed BlackMatter, Karakurt and LockBit to illustrate how threat actors carry out ransomware attacks. BlackMatter uses phishing emails to compromise employee accounts and gain network access. Once they have gained access, they more...
