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Atlassian admins warned of session cookie vulnerabilty

IT administrators with applications from Atlassian -- including Jira, Confluence, Trello and BitBucket -- are being warned of a vulnerability in their session cookies. The...

A happy holiday gift guide, infosec pro edition

Three hundred and sixty-five days of angst is a good description of the job of an infosec pro. Whether working for a well-funded bank or...

Ad-free search platform launches in Canada

Search engine Neeva launches today in Canada to provide users with a tracking-free and ad-free alternative to search platform Google. Following its launch in the...

LastPass admits new hack, some customer data exposed

Information that hackers got from an August hack of password management provider LastPass was used to compromise the company again, its CEO has acknowledged. “We...

Microsoft issues out-of-band patch for domain controllers

Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch for an issue on Windows-based domain controllers which might cause sign-in failures or other Kerberos authentication issues. Released last...

Ontario school board trying to recover from cyber incident

An Ontario public school board continues trying to recover from what it calls a cyber incident. The Durham District School Board, which serves 75,000 students...

Cisco identifies vulnerabilities in Identity Services Engine

Cisco Systems’ network access control solution has five vulnerabilities rated High that could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary operating system commands,...

Maple Leaf Foods confirms it was hit by ransomware, won’t pay attackers

Maple Leaf Foods has confirmed it was hit by ransomware, and that it won’t pay for the return of stolen data. The Black Basta ransomware...

Ontario secondary school teachers’ union notifies victims of ransomware attack

Some Ontario current and retired public high school teachers and related staff are being notified that their personal information was copied by a hacker...

Capterra research reveals the challenges small businesses are facing this year

New Capterra research reveals Canadian small businesses have faced a variety of operational challenges over the last year, including supply chain disruptions, the national...

Montreal-area city hit by ransomware: Report

A Montreal-area city was hit by ransomware over the weekend, according to a Quebec news service. La Presse reported this morning that the city of...

Switch to memory safe languages, NSA urges developers

Application developers can reduce the odds of their code including memory vulnerabilities by changing to a modern language, says the U.S. National Security Agency...

Dell Technologies expands multicloud data protection capabilities

Today, Texas-based Dell Technologies announced additions to Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, the company’s data protection software, as well as a new component in its...

Some in Ontario broader public sector are “struggling” with cybersecurity: Panel chair

The poor state of cybersecurity of some of Ontario’s school boards, child welfare agencies, municipalities, and hospitals worries the head of the province’s expert...

Data breaches are happening in every organization, no matter the size, says VP encryption, Thales

For Todd Moore, vice president (VP) of Encryption Solutions at Paris-based deep-tech solutions provider Thales, no industry or organization is immune to data breaches,...

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