Female cyber pros group targeted in phishing scam
The Women in CyberSecurity Society says a volunteer recently received a text message impersonating the group
American regulator slams data broker for selling mobile location data without consent
The Federal Trade Commission says the data could have been used by organizations to track peoples’ visits to doctors or places
Many IT departments still don’t know how many APIs they have: Report
Cloudflare report found some firms undercount the number of APIs they have by 3
Toronto Zoo hit by ransomware
The municipally-owned Toronto Zoo has been hit by a ransomware attack. The cyber attack was first detected early Friday, Jan. 5, the zoo said in a statement Monday, “We are investigating the impact, if any, to our guests, members and donor records,” the statement says. “We can confirm we do not currently store any credit
NIST issues cybersecurity guide for AI developers
Paper identifies the types of cyberattacks that can manipulate the behavior of artificial intelligen
Hacked U.S. healthcare provider’s data archive involved over 900,000 people
Archive was data collected by a defunct company that the parent firm had to keep for regulato
Hacked U.S. healthcare provider’s data archive involved over 900,000 people
Archive was data collected by a defunct company that the parent firm had to keep for regulato
Ransomware gang starts leaking data stolen from Quebec university
The LockBit ransomware gang has started releasing data it says was stolen last month from a Quebec university. The data is from the University of Sherbrooke, with a student body of about 31,000 and 8,200 faculty and staff. Sherbrooke is a city about a two-hour drive east of Montreal. Asked in an email to comment
Ontario healthcare providers now face possible fines for ‘severe’ data privacy violations
Privacy commissioner says fines won’t be default response to dat
Mandiant loses control of X/Twitter account
The X/Twitter account of Google’s Mandiant cybersecurity service has been taken over by a hacker who is seemingly promoting a cryptocurrency scam. The incident happened very early Wednesday morning, Eastern time. As of Wednesday afternoon, the account called Mandiant was still run by an operator called ‘Phantom.’ Messages posted refer to “token prices” and include
