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MWC Barcelona 2024 news roundup: Telecom, AI, security and more

MWC Barcelona 2024 comes to a close today. Here’s a look at some of the announcements that the event brought to light, from industry...

Russian threat actor expanding its target list, warns Five Eyes report

The Russian threat group known to researchers by several names, including APT29,  Midnight Blizzard, the Dukes, or Cozy Bear, is broadening its targets to...

Canada’s privacy watchdog investigating hack at Global Affairs

The federal privacy commissioner has opened an investigation into a data security breach detected in January at Global Affairs Canada. The Office of the Privacy...

Sidebar: The powerful Digital Safety Commission

The Online Harm Act’s proposed Digital Safety Commission — whose members would be full-time government employees with renewable terms of up to five years...

Cyber attack on Hamilton knocks out municipal phone, email

One of Ontario’s biggest cities is in the second day of dealing with a cyber attack. Hamilton, a municipality of about 570,000 on the shore...

LockBit claims it’s back, blames failure to patch vulnerability for police attack

The LockBit ransomware gang says it’s back in business, with a person posting a message admitting his “personal negligence and irresponsibility” for not updating...

RCMP facing ‘alarming’ cyber attack

The RCMP is facing a serious cyber attack from an unspecified threat actor. The Mounties told CBC News today that a “breach of this magnitude...

Abuse of valid accounts by threat actors hits a high, says IBM

For years, cybersecurity experts have been warning organizations of the importance of identity and access management processes — including password management and protection against...

The world according to Hinton: Slowing AI down is not the answer

Eight months ago, Geoffrey Hinton, the esteemed professor emeritus at the University of Toronto who resigned his post at Google over concerns about artificial...

UPDATED: UK leads takedown of LockBit ransomware gang’s website

The LockBit ransomware gang has suffered a major blow, after an international group of law enforcement agencies seized some of its infrastructure, source code,...

Ottawa willing to improve cybersecurity bill, ministers tell MPs

Two senior Canadian cabinet ministers have told a parliamentary committee that the government is willing to make changes to its proposed cybersecurity legislation for...

Inadequate ID authentication blamed for 2020 data thefts at Canada Revenue, ESDC

The theft of tax and employment records of 48,000 of Canadians four years ago was the fault of poor IT authentication security, says the...

Security priorities for 2024: Skills development, AI and more, says report

Developing and optimizing cybersecurity staff has been listed by a research firm as the top security priority for organizations over the next 12 months...

Ransomware gang claims it hit Canadian oil pipeline operator

The AlphV ransomware gang claims it has hit Canadian oil transmission operator Trans-Northern Pipeline, which operates pipelines in three provinces. Brett Callow, a B.C.-based threat...

Warning: Phishing campaign aimed at senior executives

Accounts of hundreds of Microsoft Office and Azure user accounts — including those of senior executives — have been compromised recently in ongoing targeted...

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