May 4, 2023 Widespread adoption of passwordless authentication is still a few years away, a panel discussion observing World Password Day has been told. “We are making quite a bit of progress,” Vishnu Allaparthi, a Texas-based partner in more...
May 3, 2023 Google has been ordered to pay a Quebec man $500,000 in moral damages for not removing a link in its search engine to an article wrongly alleging he was convicted of a sexual offence. However, more...
May 3, 2023 Artificial intelligence (AI) is unlikely to be adopted by cybercriminals in the near future, according to experts. While many articles have warned that the technology could lead to more sophisticated hacking, the reality is that more...
May 3, 2023 A ransomware gang threatens American university students, Samsung tells staff to stop using ChatGPT, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com more...
May 2, 2023 Organizations allowing guest access to websites they created with Salesforce Community are misconfiguring the capability, letting unauthenticated users see and copy a wider amount of data than visitors should be entitled to. That’s according to more...
May 2, 2023 The American Bar Association (ABA) has announced a data breach that exposed the identities, hashed and salted passwords, and email addresses of over a million members. On March 17, 2023, it found illegal third-party access more...
May 2, 2023 Banks and health care providers are among the institutions exposing private and sensitive information from their public Salesforce Community websites, according to KrebsOnSecurity. Unauthenticated individuals were allegedly able to view records that should have been more...
May 2, 2023 The European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation (EOSAN), commonly referred to as Eurocontrol, announced that a pro-Russian hacker organization called Killnet conducted a cyberattack on its website. Although the attack disrupted access to more...
May 1, 2023 Tired of seeing its stock slowly dropping over the past 12 months, and after reporting a loss for the last fiscal year, BlackBerry said Monday its board is reviewing the cybersecurity company’s portfolio of businesses. more...
May 1, 2023 According to security experts Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry, a new synchronization function in Google's Authenticator 2FA software, which allows users to connect into numerous services, has a severe security issue. Mysk found the more...
