May 18, 2022 A warning to e-commerce sites, Conti ransomware gang squeezes Costa Rica and more Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday May 18th, 2022 I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. E-commerce companies should more...
May 17, 2022 Canadian CISOs are the biggest proponents of fighting ransomware attacks through prevention rather than just detecting and responding to them, according to an international survey. Eighty-seven per cent of the 100 Canadian respondents said prevention more...
May 17, 2022 Researchers at Germany's Technical University of Darmstadt have discovered a vulnerability in the Bluetooth chip of the iPhone. The flaw allows attackers to run malicious firmware on an iPhone device even when the device is more...
May 16, 2022 According to a new study, more than 100,000 top websites collect some or all user data when they type it into a digital form. The report states that many of the sites do not intend more...
May 13, 2022 In the face of what it calls Russia’s “malicious cyber activities” in its war against Ukraine, Canada is urging the G7 nations to create a working group to share cybersecurity best practices for protecting their more...
May 13, 2022 Several U.S. states are now on track to bring back facial recognition technology after the original move to have it banned. Lifting the ban became necessary after crime rates jumped in recent months. Among the more...
May 12, 2022 Under pressure after the discovery of several open source vulnerabilities including Log4Shell, leading open-source groups and software firms have created a 10-point plan for ensuring ongoing improvements in the security of open-source code. The plan, more...
May 12, 2022 HP's BIOS updates will address two high-severity flaws affecting multiple PC and notebook products. The flaws tracked as CVE-2021-3808 and CVE-2021-3809 both have a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8. The vulnerabilities allow code to more...
May 12, 2022 Researchers at Proofpoint have released a new report which contains details on the new Nerbian RAT malware. Nerbian RAT is a new malware written in Go which makes it a cross-platform 64-bit threat. It is more...
May 12, 2022 Russian cybersecurity experts have finally restored access to video-hosting site Rite RuTube three days after the platform suffered a cyberattack. RuTube's homepage packed with video content reappeared on Wednesday evening having been rendered inaccessible since more...
