January 29, 2024 | Local, Government, Defence and Security
Work on the second plank of the Liberal government's cybersecurity and privacy strategy starts this afternoon. That's when the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security opens hearings on Bill C-26, which amends legislation governing telecommunications companies and creates the Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act (CCSPA). “This legislation is among the
October 11, 2023
The LockBit ransomware gang is threatening to release data on Wedneday stolen from CDW Corp., a major IT reseller and services provider in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.. The Register says it was told by a gang member that Lockbit made the decision because negotiations over the ransom fee broke down. "As soon as
August 29, 2023
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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