A Calgary doctor uses his personal Gmail account to communicate sensitive personal health information, does not protect his account, and whammo: 7,000 of his patients now have their private information circulating on the Intertubes. What are the takeaways? First, never use your personal email to communicate business sensitive information. In this case, the doctor had […]
A server with databases holding the phone numbers and identity numbers of perhaps as many as 200 million Facebook users in the U.S., the U.K. and other countries has been found open on the Internet by a security researcher. No one knows who the database belongs to, how or when it was copied from Facebook,
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With a bit of luck the city of New Bedford, Mass., escaped having to pay a demanded US$5.3 million to criminals after suffering a ransomware attack last month. The mayor of the city revealed Wednesday how 158 of the municipality’s workstations — less than five per cent of the total — were locked out by
IT administrators with Supermicro X11, X10 and X9 servers in their environments are being urged to take remediation action to protect the devices after the discovery of a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely access servers through a USB key. The vulnerability in the baseboard management controller (BMC) was disclosed Tuesday by security
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Where to find cyber security and privacy resources online Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday September 2nd. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cyber security for ITWorldCanada.com. Today’s the Labour Day holiday in Canada and the U.S. If you’ve tuned in, thanks for listening. I’ll try to keep today’s show brief so you can
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Who really is that voice, 80 indicted for email fraud and ditch old software Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday August 26th. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cyber security for ITWorldCanada.com. To hear the podcast, click on the arrow below: Smart organizations have strict policies over how employees handle money. Certain verbal
Financial technology startups like to boast that they are more nimble than their counterparts in the traditional banking world. But if a test of their websites and mobile apps by a cybersecurity vendor is accurate, the startups aren’t necessarily better at protecting their applications. The study released this week by ImmuniWeb is a follow-up to
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