October 30, 2023 | Local, Defence and Security
Malware hiding as a cryptominer may have infected 1 million PCs since 2017. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It's Friday, October 27th, 2023. I'm Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. Data-stealing malware miscategorized by security researchers as a cryptocurrency miner has been infecting computers since at least 2017.
December 17, 2023
Threat actors are misusing OAuth-based applications as an automation tool for authentication, says Microsoft. "Threat actors compromise user accounts to create, modify, and grant high privileges to OAuth applications that they can misuse to hide malicious activity," the company said in a blog this week. "The misuse of OAuth also enables threat actors to maintain
July 18, 2023
Automated defences protected the government from 2.3-trillion cyber attacks in the last year, or an average of 6.3 billion a day.
September 11, 2023
To better understand the benefits and costs, Forrester interviewed executives from leading IT services, management consulting, and software & tech companies using Kantata.