Threat actors still exploiting old unpatched vulnerabilities, says Cisco
In its Year in Review for 2023 Cisco Systems’ Talos threat intelligence unit says old exploits are still being
U.S. drug store chain banned from using facial recognition for five years
Rite Aid sanctioned for technology that falsely flagged consumers as matching someone who had previously been identified as a shoplifter or other tro
AlphV/BlackCat ransomware gang’s websites seized, FBI releases decrypter
A source infiltrated the gang after responding to an ad for potential
Southern Ontario school board acknowledges ‘cyber incident’
One of the biggest public school boards in Southern Ontario has publicly acknowledged a cyber attack, over a month after it was detected. The York Region District School Board, which covers an area stretching from Toronto in the south to Lake Simcoe in the north, with a student population of over 128,000, said in a
Dental benefits group notifying almost 7 million Americans of MOVEit data theft
Delta Dental says attacker stole names, account numbers and credit/debit ca
Hackers abusing OAuth to automate cyber attacks, says Microsoft
Report urges IT admins to tighten identity and access management, including implementing multifactor auth
Provincial privacy commissioners oppose proposed federal privacy tribunal
Three provincial privacy commissioners testify on what needs to be chang
Provincial privacy commissioners oppose proposed federal privacy tribunal
Three provincial privacy commissioners testify on what needs to be chang
BlackBerry names new CEO, will split cybersecurity and IoT businesses
BlackBerry’s new leader is the former head of its cybersecurity business unit. The Waterloo, Ont., company said this morning that John Giamatteo is its new chief executive officer and a member of its board of directors, effective immediately. Richard Lynch, who has served as interim chief executive officer since Nov. 4, after the departure of
European political agreement paves the way for AI law
The European Union has reached agreement on the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence law. According to the Associated Press, negotiators from the European Parliament and the bloc’s 27 member countries signed a tentative political agreement Friday that will ease passage of the Artificial Intelligence Act. The European Parliament still has to approve the legislation, but
