Few CISOs worry about Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), a technology built into motherboard chips to help secure the loading of an operating system. It’s a tempting target for threat…

Among modern cybersecurity threats, attacks on infrastructure and operational technology (OT) could have the most far-reaching consequence. Industrial cyber-attacks target the control systems for critical services like manufacturing, oil and…

On October 4, 2021, the global social network Facebook and its associated platforms faced a global outage that lasted approximately six hours. This outage not only impacted all Facebook users,…

A Canadian voice-over-IP provider called VoIP.ms is being held to ransom by what it called a “massive” and sustained DDoS attack, which could cause the company to lose business. According…

IT administrators are being warned of a new threat that abuses the Windows operating system’s ability to run Linux binaries to upload malware. The warning comes from researchers at Lumen, who say…

NSO Group says it will continue providing tools for fighting “terror and crime.” Apple released a critical software patch to fix a security vulnerability that researchers said could allow hackers…

According to a new survey, many employees working from home – particularly those under the age of 24 – see cybersecurity as a hindrance and have tried to bypass controls,…

Global consulting firm Accenture was recently hit by a ransomware attack that was allegedly carried by the ransomware group, LockBit. In response, SKOUT Managed XDR (now a Barracuda offering) has updated…

A new ransomware family called LockFile has started targeting Microsoft Exchange servers via ProxyShell and PetitPotam. Security researchers have discovered a new ransomware family called LockFile that appears to have been used…

Canadian cybersecurity teams face a wide range of threats, but the most common vulnerability exploit type is remote code execution (RCE), according to a report from Check Point Software Technologies. In…