May 15, 2023 The Department of Defense via the Inspector General's Office (OIG) has issued a report highlighting serious vulnerabilities with the ENCORE III program, a large-scale IT endeavor with a $17.5 billion budget that delivers IT services more...
May 15, 2023 Patch this WordPress plugin hole fast, a data breach at a Discord provider and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday, May 15th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and more...
May 12, 2023 Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This Week in Review for the week ending Friday, May 12, 2023. I’m Jim Love IT World Canada’s CIO, filling in for Howard this week. There’s usually a news roundup more...
May 12, 2023 How Dragos was fooled by an attacker impersonating a new employee, and more Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, May 12th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in more...
May 11, 2023 Canada’s privacy commissioner says the government’s proposals to modernize Canada’s federal private sector privacy law are “a step in the right direction,” but must go further to protect fundamental privacy rights. The statement from Privacy more...
May 11, 2023 Google has recently unveiled a range of innovative privacy, safety, and security features designed to shield users from cyber threats like phishing attacks and malicious websites. These initiatives aim to offer greater transparency and control more...
May 10, 2023 Employees at Fortune 1000 telecommunications companies are among the most susceptible on dark web networks, according to research issued by threat intelligence firm SpyCloud. The research discovered 6.34 million sets of credentials, including corporate email more...
May 9, 2023 Cybersecurity agencies from the Five Eyes intelligence co-operative — including Canada and the U.S. — have disrupted a global peer-to-peer network of computers compromised by the Russian-created Snake malware. In a statement Tuesday, the countries more...
May 9, 2023 Canada’s National Gallery, which holds more than 75,000 works of art along with extensive library and archival holdings, is recovering from a ransomware attack. The Ottawa Citizen said today that members were told this morning by more...
May 8, 2023 Two years after the international Ransomware Task Force issued 48 recommendations for governments, the technology industry, and civil society to deter and disrupt the ransomware model, there are mixed signs of success. The FBI scored more...
