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TechLok launches pocket-sized anti-theft system for laptops at CES

Computer security company TechLok Solutions unveiled LapLok, a pocket-sized anti-theft solution, designed to protect one’s laptop or other belongings from grab-and-go thieves, at CES...

Compromised API led to data theft of 37 million T-Mobile customers

A hacker leveraged an Application Programming Interface (API) to steal the personal information of 37 million customers over two months, undetected, from American cellular...

Nunavut power utility’s servers hit by cyber attack

The territorial utility that provides power to Nunavut can’t say yet if customer data was copied after a cyber attack earlier this week. Qulliq Energy...

Mailchimp hit again by social media attack

Accounts of 133 corporate customers of email marketing service provider Mailchimp have been hacked after employees fell for a social media attack, the third...

‘Cybercrime Atlas’ will help police, tech companies fight threat actors

Microsoft and Fortinet are among the technology companies supporting the official start of an effort to map cybercriminal activities and identify joint public and...

How editing a URL allowed crooks to access Experian credit reports

Threat actors have been exploiting a website access control mistake to copy personal information held by one of the world’s biggest credit rating agencies,...

Hackers compromised Ontario liquor board website, stole customer data

Cyber attackers compromised the website of Ontario’s Liquor Control Board and stole personal information of customers who bought products online, the retailer has acknowledged. “At...

Restrict physical access to certain Siemens PLCs, industrial admins warned

Industrial operations with equipment running Siemens network-connected S7-1500 series programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are being warned to physically isolate the devices after the discovery...

University of Waterloo to lead consortium to advance Canada’s security and defence

Today, the University of Waterloo announced a 5G and beyond mobile network technology consortium to help develop 5G mobile networks and improve Canada’s security...

Threat actor trying to exploit old Windows weakness

A threat actor that specializes in getting around multifactor authentication protection has added a new tool to its arsenal for infecting computers: Leveraging a...

Toronto hospital network says IT problems not caused by cyber attack

One of the country’s biggest hospital networks says the IT alert issued Monday wasn’t the result of a cyber attack. In a series of tweets...

Major Toronto hospital network declares IT alert

A second Toronto hospital network has had to declare a Code Grey due to an IT outage, within weeks of the ransomware attack on...

Cybercrooks starting to use ChatGPT, say researchers

Just over a month after the release of the AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, cybercrooks are boasting of using the application to create new weapons. Check Point...

Threat actors will take advantge of ChatGPT, says expert

Microsoft, software developers, law enforcement agencies, banks, students writing essays and almost everyone in between thinks they can take advantage of ChatGPT. So do threat...

SickKids hospital has restored 80 per cent of priority IT systems

IT systems at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children are closer to being put back into production after last month’s ransomware attack. The hospital said Thursday...

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