April 29, 2022 Canada, the U.S., and 59 other countries have signed a declaration vowing to work for an open, free, global, interoperable, reliable, and secure internet. It isn’t clear if or how the Declaration on the Future more...
April 29, 2022 Breast cancer website leaves data open, a warning on Microsoft Explorer and Facebook privacy controls questioned. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday April 29th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. more...
April 28, 2022 Patched vulnerabilities that date as far back as 2017 are still being exploited by threat actors, according to the latest report from cyber intelligence agencies in Canada and its Five Eyes allies. Issued this week, more...
April 28, 2022 The cybersecurity authorities of the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K. have published a list of the 15 biggest vulnerabilities exploited in 2021. The list includes Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228), REST API authentication bypass (CVE-2021-40539), more...
April 28, 2022 GitHub has confirmed a security breach that saw an attacker use stolen OAuth app tokens to steal private repositories from dozens of organizations. The attack process involves authenticating the attacker authenticating to the GitHub API more...
April 28, 2022 1Password suffers from an outage that has prevented U.S. mobile, desktop and browser clients from syncing. 1Password CTO Pedro Canahuati explained the cause of the outage as being due to the company's planned database upgrade. more...
April 27, 2022 A new ransomware gang called Black Basta has claimed responsibility for the attack on the American Dental Association. The attackers claimed to have leaked 2.8GB of data, which they believe accounts for about 30% of more...
April 27, 2022 According to published findings from Kaspersky, DDoS attacks were at an all-time high in the first quarter of 2022. According to the cybersecurity firm, the high number of DDoS attacks is due to the ongoing more...
April 27, 2022 Security researchers at The DFIR Report have uncovered the cyber activities of the Quantum ransomware gang which saw the attackers go from initial access to domain-wide ransomware. Described as one of the fastest ransomware cases, more...
April 27, 2022 More evidence that insurers are making it harder for organizations to get cybersecurity coverage came in a new report on ransomware today from Sophos. Fifty-four per cent of the 5,600 IT professionals in mid-sized organizations more...
