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Forrester reports cloud trends for 2023

A recent Forrester Research report has revealed the top 10 trends shaping the cloud industry this year. Not only are companies trying to keep...

Exim issues email server update, mitigations for 6 zero-day vulnerabilities

Network administrators with Exim Main Transfer Agent email servers in their environments are being urged to update their servers today or apply mitigations to...

Admins urged to quickly patch holes in WS_FTP file transfer server

Another set of critical vulnerabilities has been found in a file transfer application, raising worries that, if exploited before being patched, it too will...

Champagne squeezed to produce proposed amendments on privacy, AI bills

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s attempt to get parliamentary committee hearings on privacy and AI legislation off to a good start has backfired, with the...

Liberals to add ‘fundamental right to privacy’ to proposed law, but no details yet

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne tempted members of a parliamentary committee meeting Tuesday with promises of big amendments to proposed Canadian privacy and AI legislation...

Data on 3.4 million mothers, children stolen from Ontario registry

Data on 3.4 million Ontario mothers, newborns, and children collected over the past 10 years has been stolen from the MOVEit file transfer server...

Canada cyber centre issues caution after group from India issues threat

The Canadian government’s cyber authority has issued a warning to IT administrators here to watch for attacks, after a group or individual claiming to...

Despite AI, infosec leaders have ‘job security forever,’ conference told

Cyber threats are so pervasive that artificial intelligence solutions aren’t going put chief information and security officers out of a job, a financial conference...

Air Canada admits hack of employee data

Canada’s national airline has admitted suffering what is says was a “brief” breach of security controls, although the statement from Air Canada doesn’t say...

DDoS attacks behind Canada border agency problems

Canada’s border control agency is the latest federal department to confirm it was hit by a recent wave of denial of service attacks. “The Canada...

Ransomware is now a crisis, financial conference told

(On Monday I moderated a panel on ransomware at the annual SIBOS conference of the Swift IT messaging financial network, which this year...

SAS unveils innovations and partnerships during Explore 2023

In a series of announcements and presentations at SAS Explore last week, SAS unveiled innovations and partnerships that aim to reshape industries ranging from...

Canada cyber centre issues alert after government DDoS attacks

Distributed denial of service attacks against the websites of federal departments and several Canadian provinces and territories — including PEI, Yukon, Saskatchewan and Manitoba...

Attack surfaces still aren’t being managed fast enough by IT: Report

IT departments aren’t managing their organizations’ attack surfaces anywhere near the speed at which threat actors are finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. That’s the conclusion of...

‘Don’t blame us for MGM Resorts disruption. We only installed ransomware,’ says gang

The AlphV ransomware gang has admitted it was behind this week’s attack on casino and hotel operator MGM Resorts, but is saying the company...

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