May 19, 2022 Canadian telecom providers will have to rip out any Huawei and ZTE equipment from their 4G and 5G networks without compensation, the federal government has announced. The long-expected announcement came from Public Safety Minister Marco more...
May 19, 2022 Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves has announced that the country is "at war" with Conti ransomware hackers after they broke into 27 government institutions. The attack led to major disruptions across numerous government ministries and more...
May 19, 2022 Apple has released emergency updates to fix a zero-day vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to target Mac and Apple Watch devices. The bug, identified as CVE-2022-22675, is an out-of-bounds bug in the AppleAVD more...
May 19, 2022 A former database administrator, Han Bing, who works for Lianjia, a Chinese real-estate brokerage firm, was sentenced to seven years in prison. Bing was arrested after logging into corporate systems and deleting the company's data more...
May 19, 2022 Nvidia has released a security update to fix 10 vulnerabilities in its GPU drivers, including four high-severity vulnerabilities and six medium-severity vulnerabilities. The four high severity flaws include CVE-2022-28181, CVE-2022-28182, CVE-2022-28183 and CVE-2022-28184. CVE-2022-28181 (CVSS more...
May 18, 2022 A six-member team from a Toronto high school has won the fifth annual CyberTitan cybersecurity competition for students from Canadian middle and high schools. The winning team from William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute, called Unavailable more...
May 18, 2022 A joint security advisory issued by several national cybersecurity authorities has identified the ten attack vectors most exploited by threat actors. These attack vectors include the failure to enable multi-factor authentication, improperly applied privileges or more...
May 18, 2022 The U.S. government has warned that IT workers from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are disguising themselves as freelancers to steal privileged access. The stolen access can be used sometimes to facilitate cyber more...
May 18, 2022 Canada’s federal privacy law requires companies to protect the sensitive information that they hold about employees, customers and partners. But what is sensitive information, and how should it be protected? This week, the Office of more...
May 18, 2022 The U.S. Department of Justice has charged cardiologist Luis Zagala Gonzalez, 55, with creating and renting Jigsaw and Thanos ransomware to cybercriminals. Zagala holds both French and Venezuelan citizenship and lives in Ciudad Bolivar. He more...
