January 19, 2024 IT administrators allow remote access software like Zoho Assist, TeamViewer VNC Connect, Windows RDP and AnyDesk to help employees do their work away from the office. Unfortunately, those products can also be useful to hackers, more...
January 15, 2024 An Ontario municipality has become the latest to lose temporary access to its X account. Peterborough, Ont., a city of 83,600 about 125km northeast of Toronto, says someone took over and renamed its X/Twitter account more...
January 15, 2024 An Ontario municipality has become the latest to lose temporary access to its X account. Peterborough, Ont., a city of 83,600 about 125km northeast of Toronto, says someone took over and renamed its X/Twitter account more...
January 11, 2024 Mandiant says the loss of control of its X/Twitter account last week was likely caused by a brute force password attack on one employee’s account by a cryptocurrency scammer. Normally, two-factor authentication (2FA)would have mitigated more...
April 20, 2023 An employee who downloaded an infected application onto their own PC is being blamed for last month’s compromise of the 3CX VoIP desktop client. In a report issued today, 3CX said the results of an more...
April 10, 2023 Three Canadian experts in cybersecurity are skeptical of a claim by a pro-Russian hacktivist that they have breached and damaged the operational technology (OT) network of a Canadian gas pipeline company. “It’s almost certainly disinformation,” more...
January 16, 2023 A group is claiming it has received stolen data, allegedly from an American firm that supplies a facial recognition application to police whose website was defaced on the weekend. According to TechCrunch, a group called more...
January 12, 2023 Cyber attackers compromised the website of Ontario’s Liquor Control Board and stole personal information of customers who bought products online, the retailer has acknowledged. “At this time, we can confirm that an unauthorized party embedded more...
January 11, 2023 A threat actor that specializes in getting around multifactor authentication protection has added a new tool to its arsenal for infecting computers: Leveraging a known Windows weakness to compromise the operating system’s kernel. The group more...
November 18, 2022 A cyber attack on a Texas-based cloud provider of emergency responder applications has impacted around 100 Canadian paramedic ambulance services, most of them in Ontario. Haldimand County’s Paramedic Services is one of them. Today it more...
