Toronto District School Board Investigating Ransomware Incident
The Toronto District School Board is investigating a recent ransomware attack that affected its testing environment. The Toronto board is Canada’s largest school board, serving…
Month: June 2024
Microsoft president testifies about security lapses – Security
Microsoft president Brad Smith has testified before a US House panel on homeland security, fielding questions about its security practices and ties to China a…
New York Times warns freelancers of GitHub repo data breach
The New York Times notified an undisclosed number of contributors that some of their sensitive personal information was stolen and leaked after its GitHub repositories were breached…
Microsoft Security Failures Get Rough Treatment On Capitol Hill
Microsoft’s cybersecurity efforts have been roundly criticized in recent months, and despite pledges to do better, the company has compounded the problem with missteps like…
Aged Care pilots ServiceNow for labour management – Software
The Department of Health and Aged Care is piloting a new platform to streamline staff hire and management in the elderly care sector. The department’s…
Panera warns of employee data breach after March ransomware attack
U.S. food chain giant Panera Bread is notifying employees of a data breach after unknown threat actors stole their sensitive personal information in a March ransomware…
Toronto District School Board hit by a ransomware attack
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is warning that it suffered a ransomware attack on its software testing environment and is now investigating whether any…
Switzerland government websites hit by Cyber Attack
Numerous government-operated websites have fallen victim to a cyber attack resembling a distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault. In this type of attack, botnets generate…
Google patches exploited Android zero-day on Pixel devices
Update June 13, 13:01 EDT: GrapheneOS says CVE-2024-32896 is the same as CVE-2024-29748. Google added a new CVE ID to track the Pixel fix for CVE-2024-29748, a…
The Rise of Universal ZTNA
The way we work has drastically changed over the last few years. Our data, users, devices, and applications are now everywhere. Just look at the…
Exploit for Veeam Recovery Orchestrator auth bypass available, patch now
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a critical Veeam Recovery Orchestrator authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-29855 has been released, elevating the risk of being exploited in…
Excellence in the essentials of cybersecurity – below the ‘poverty line’
The ‘cybersecurity poverty line’ was a term coined over ten years ago by a Cisco security leader, Wendy Nather. We often hear it described as…