Hashtag Trending Dec.5- AI making laws; Fusion power closer to reality; The biggest companies that fell victim to cyberattacks in 2023
AI is now making laws, fusion power gets closer to reality and you’ll never guess what the word of the year is. These and more top tech stories on Hashtag Trending I’m your host Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and Tech News Day in the US. We covered the story about the
LockBit Ransomware Gang Adding DDoS Attacks To Its Threats
The LockBit ransomware gang is adding a third weapon to its arsenal of threats: Denial of service attacks. According to the Bleeping Computer news service, the aggressive gang is looking to hire distributed denial of service (DDoS) experts to help launch denial of service attacks on victim organizations that refuse to pay either for the
Beware of simultaneous cyber attacks, warns Sophos
The key drivers of multiple exploitations are vulnerabilities and misconfigurations going unaddressed after a first attack, s
PrestaShop Urges Administrators To Update Application To Close Vulnerabilities
The e-commerce platform says attackers can exploit older versions with SQL injection
Manufacturing was most attacked sector in Canada in 2021: IBM
Ransomware was the number one threat type investigated by IBM’s team, followed by business email compromise
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Canadian, US, UK sanctions may spark retaliatory cyber attacks on Western critical infrastructure
Financial institutions in Western countries may see retaliatory cyber attacks from Russian-based threat groups after Canada, the U.S. and U.K. announced sanctions against Russian banks following that country’s recognition of two breakaway regions of Ukraine. The U.K. announcement was the first of what are expected to be many detailed responses today from the U.S., the […]
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