June 16, 2022 An Interpol operation, dubbed as 'First Light 2022,' has seized over 50 million dollars and arrested thousands of people involved in social engineering scams globally. The operation, led by the Interpol, involved the assistance of more...
June 16, 2022 Technical details on a high-severity vulnerability impacting some versions of the Zimbra email solution that threat actors could exploit to steal logins sans authentication or user interaction have emerged. The security issue is presently tracked more...
June 15, 2022 The federal government’s proposed cybersecurity and mandatory reporting legislation is initially getting mixed reactions from experts in the field. “There’s nothing particularly innovative here,” said Christian Leuprect, a Queen’s University professor and senior fellow in more...
June 15, 2022 94% of IT executives and decision-makers express serious concerns about user-generated passwords. Half of these IT executives believe that passwords are too weak for security purposes. 91% said they were very or rather concerned about more...
June 15, 2022 BlackCat ransomware hits again, a huge DDoS attack and security updates issued. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. Wednesday June 15, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. There’s lots of news today more...
June 15, 2022 An Illinois man has been sentenced to two years in prison for running a distributed denial of service (DDoS) platform that enabled threat actors to perform more than 200,000 attacks. Matthew Gatrel, 33, created and more...
June 15, 2022 The ALPHV ransomware group, aka BlackCat, took its operations to a new level by building a dedicated website where customers and employees of their victim organization can check if their data was breached in an more...
June 15, 2022 Kaiser Permanente, the biggest nonprofit health plan provider in America, recently announced a data breach that exposed highly sensitive health information of close to 70,000 patients. In a June 3 notice sent to patients, Kaiser more...
June 15, 2022 Researchers have discovered that microprocessors from Intel, AMD, and others have a weakness that attackers can exploit to obtain cryptographic keys and other secret data traveling via hardware. The team discovered that dynamic voltage and more...
June 14, 2022 Certain companies in four federally-regulated Canadian critical infrastructure providers — including banks, telcos, energy providers and transport companies — would have to toughen their cybersecurity and share cyber threat information with Ottawa under proposed legislation more...
