July 26, 2023 Another industry group has emerged promising to promote best practices for artificial intelligence applications at a time when governments around the world are looking at regulating AI. Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic said today they more...
July 26, 2023 Several proposed class action lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. stemming from the exploitation and data thefts in January from a vulnerability in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT file transfer software. Now a Canadian action has more...
July 26, 2023 Reports on successful ransomware attacks, on stolen credentials for accessing business applications, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, July 26th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com more...
July 26, 2023 President Biden has nominated Harry Coker, a former NSA and CIA official, to be the next national cyber director. Coker would replace Chris Inglis, who stepped down from the position in February. Coker has a more...
July 26, 2023 Security researchers at Infoblox have detected a new malware campaign they are calling Decoy Dog. The campaign has all the hallmarks of an espionage campaign, but the researchers have not been able to determine the more...
July 26, 2023 A group of Dutch security analysts have discovered serious vulnerabilities in the TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) standard, including a deliberate backdoor. TETRA is a European radio standard used by police forces, prison personnel, military, intelligence more...
July 26, 2023 Apple has released security updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Safari to address several security vulnerabilities, including one actively exploited zero-day bug in the wild. The zero-day bug, tracked as CVE-2023-38606, resides in more...
July 26, 2023 Ransomware attacks surged in June, more than doubling from the same month last year, according to new data from cyber insurer Corvus. The report found that 456 companies were listed as victims of ransomware attacks more...
July 25, 2023 Some of the biggest names in IT and service providers including AT&T, Cisco Systems, Fortinet, VMware and Intel today launched an industry group promising solutions that improve the security of data and IT networks. Called more...
July 25, 2023 A new malware strain known as BundleBot is targeting Facebook users by exploiting .NET single-file deployment techniques. The malware is commonly distributed via Facebook Ads and compromised accounts, often disguised as regular program utilities, AI more...