Proposed privacy law lets personal data be ‘exploited’ by Canadian firms: Citizen Lab
Two reports from rights groups are the first attacks on the proposed updating of the federal-private sector law before it goes to a parliamentary
YARA rules released to detect threat actors’ use of Cobalt Strike
For years hackers have used cracked versions of the Cobalt Strike attack emulation tool to help their work. Now defenders can more easily detect unauthorized use o
Montreal-area city hit by ransomware: Report
A Montreal-area city was hit by ransomware over the weekend, according to a Quebec news service. La Presse reported this morning that the city of Westmount mayor Christina Smith confirmed the attack. Westmount is a municipality of about 21,000 people within Montreal. The Lockbit ransomware gang has claimed credit, saying it copied 14 TB of
ARCrypter ransomware strain detailed by BlackBerry
Unlike other strains, ARCrypter drops a ransom note before files are
Switch to memory safe languages, NSA urges developers
Application developers can reduce the odds of their code including memory vulnerabilities by changing to a modern language, says the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). In an advisory, the agency urges developers to think about dropping C and C++ and shifting to languages such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift. In these languages,
U.S. ranks fourth, Canada fifth on cybersecurity scale
Cyber Defence Index was created by MIT magazine and a vendor ranked 20 countries. Read ho
Google to pay US$391 million for misleading Android users on location tracking
States found Google violated their consumer prote
Reports swirl after parent of Sobey’s supermarkets admits ‘IT systems issue’
One of Canada’s biggest supermarket chains was hit a week ago by the Black Basta strain of ransomware, according to a news site. BleepingComputer made the claim today after seeing ransom notes on Empire Company Ltd. devices and viewing negotiation chats. Headquartered in New Brunswick, Empire pulls $30.5 billion in annualized sales through its Sobeys,
Use of multifactor authentication increasing, Cisco data shows
Organizations around the world — including in Canada — are increasingly adopting multifactor authentication (MFA) to improve their cybersecurity posture, a new report from Cisco Systems suggests. The numbers, which come from an analysis of the use of Cisco’s Duo MFA platform, show authentications through Duo were up almost 15 per cent in the U.S.
URL scanning service leaked links to sensitive web pages: Report
According to researchers at Positive Security, a combination of factors led to URL searches by urlscan.io to
