May 1, 2023 Personal health information of Canadians stored on the test computer of a third-party supplier to an Ottawa hospital has been stolen in a data breach. Queensway Carleton Hospital said on Saturday the breach of security more...
May 1, 2023 As large language models (LLMs) gain prominence, concerns concerning their security weaknesses are being raised. Simon Willison, the maintainer of the open source Datasette project, is concerned about prompt injection, a severe security problem that more...
May 1, 2023 Researchers have been looking at an ongoing Magecart effort that uses authentic-looking fraudulent payment windows to steal personal data from unwary customers. The threat actor behind the effort hijacked the checkout page using actual logos more...
May 1, 2023 The RSA Conference in San Francisco has tagged ransomware as the biggest threat to the cybersecurity industry. During the RSA event, the perception of ransomware shifted from being an inconvenience to being seen as a more...
May 1, 2023 Another Amnesty International branch was hacked, the Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas was compromised and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday, May 1st. 2023 I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com more...
April 28, 2023 Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the week in Review edition for the week ending Friday, Arpil 28th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, cybersecurity reporter for ITWorldCanada.con and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. In a few more...
April 28, 2023 A Canadian telephony provider is still having problems restoring service two days after first reporting issues with its servers. The website of Fongo, based in Waterloo, Ont., was “down for maintenance” as of 2 p.m. more...
April 28, 2023 Infosec leaders hope to instill a culture of cybersecurity in their organizations. But an expert says action speaks louder than words. “Culture ultimately reflects what you do,” says Merritt Baer, a principal in the office more...
April 28, 2023 Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that it has interrupted the functioning of Glupteba, a sophisticated botnet. As a resiliency mechanism, the virus infected over one million Windows systems globally and placed its command-and-control server more...
April 28, 2023 Google has received a temporary court order in the United States to halt the circulation of CryptBot, a Windows-based spyware that steals information. According to Google's Mike Trinh and Pierre-Marc Bureau, the measures are part more...
