February 9, 2024 A record US$1 billion paid to ransomware gangs last year, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, February 9th, 2024. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the more...
February 8, 2024 The U.S. tech industry is facing a significant challenge with the proposed cyber incident reporting rules by the government, which now demand IT service providers report security incidents within a mere eight hours and allow more...
February 8, 2024 Officials from four of the biggest tech companies in the world — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta — largely offered polite criticism of the country’s proposed artificial intelligence law to Canadian parliamentarians for over an more...
February 8, 2024 Officials from four of the biggest tech companies in the world — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta — largely offered polite criticism of the country’s proposed artificial intelligence law to Canadian parliamentarians for over an more...
February 7, 2024 China-backed hacking group Volt Typhoon has been identified as having "persistent" access to various sectors of U.S. critical infrastructure for "at least five years," marking a concerning escalation in cyber threats. Targeting essential services such more...
February 7, 2024 Following recent American warnings of China’s efforts to secretly plant itself on critical infrastructure for future cyber attacks, Canada and other members of Five Eyes intelligence co-operative today issued a joint advisory so firms in more...
February 7, 2024 Infosec pros don’t have much respect for the cybersecurity or information security courses offered in colleges and universities, a new survey suggests. Half of the respondents to a new survey done for Kaspersky said the more...
February 7, 2024 Senior Canadian Defence Department IT officials have been rebuked by an MP for not doing a privacy impact assessment on software that can extract personal data from military members’ government-issued computing devices. Parliament’s privacy and more...
February 7, 2024 A deepfake video scam costs a company US$25 million, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, February 7th, 2024. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. more...
February 6, 2024 Canada, the United States, France and the U.K. are among 25 countries, as well as groups representing nations, vowing today to take action on the abuse of commercial spyware by certain governments and law enforcement more...
