June 9, 2022 Tesla’s 2021 update that made its vehicles easier to start once unlocked using their NFC key cards can be exploited to steal cars. This was recently demonstrated by a researcher who studied the said vulnerability. more...
June 9, 2022 The NSA, CISA, and the FBI published a joint cybersecurity advisory stating that Chinese hackers have taken advantage of publicly known vulnerabilities to breach anything from unpatched small office/home office (SOHO) routers all the way more...
June 7, 2022 Online security provider firm Secureworks has detected a new cybercrime campaign wherein unsecured internet-facing Elasticsearch instances are used to steal databases and replace them with a ransom note to obtain the database back. Secureworks Counter more...
June 6, 2022 The biggest mistake IT leaders make in trying to secure sensitive data is not understanding where their data is and how it flows, says Cisco Systems’ vice-president and chief privacy officer. Harvey Jang, VP and more...
May 31, 2022 Meta has updated the privacy policies of Facebook and Instagram, in an effort to simplify and make it easier to understand how the company utilizes its customers’ information. This development comes amidst intense criticism by more...
May 31, 2022 Tax software vendor Intuit cautioned QuickBooks users that they are being targeted in ongoing phishing attacks where threat actors pose as Intuit personnel to lure them with phony account suspension warnings. "We're writing to let more...
May 25, 2022 Research shows that hackers may hijack online accounts before users even register them by exploiting flaws that have since been fixed on popular websites such as Instagram, LinkedIn, Zoom, WordPress, and Dropbox. Andrew Paverd, a more...
May 19, 2022 Canada’s federal privacy law requires companies to protect the sensitive information that they hold about employees, customers and partners. But what is sensitive information, and how should it be protected? This week, the Office of more...
May 3, 2022 Parliament should limit Canadian police use of facial recognition technology to closely defined circumstances such as serious crimes, the country’s federal, provincial, and territorial privacy commissioners said today. Their statement was released as three commissioners more...
April 29, 2022 Breast cancer website leaves data open, a warning on Microsoft Explorer and Facebook privacy controls questioned. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday April 29th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. more...
