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Coffee Briefing November 15, 2022 – Walmart and Telus Health partner up; 30 per cent of ad traffic on certain browsers is bot-generated; Calgary’s...

Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed...

Use of multifactor authentication increasing, Cisco data shows

Organizations around the world — including in Canada — are increasingly adopting multifactor authentication (MFA) to improve their cybersecurity posture, a new report from...

URL scanning service leaked links to sensitive web pages: Report

A URL scanning service included in products from major security vendors has been leaking personal and sensitive information from links to corporate web pages...

Canadian police arrest suspected LockBit ransomware gang operator

Canadian police have arrested a Russian citizen who they say is one of the world’s most prolific ransomware operators behind the LockBit ransomware gang....

SolarWinds to pay US$26 million over Orion compromise

The cost to American companies from shareholder and regulator lawsuits for being hit by cyber attacks is being revealed. SolarWinds said it has entered into...

Big Tech Q4 earnings proof big trouble ahead on economic front: Analyst

News that the mega-vendors reported weaker than expected earnings last week is just one of many signals that this is not just a blip,...

RomCom RAT found in applications from spoofed Veeam, SolarWinds and KeePass websites

The websites of popular business applications from Veeam, SolarWinds, KeePass and PDF Technologies are being spoofed by a threat actor to spread the RomCom...

1Password acquires Texas-based passkey tool provider Passage

Canadian-based 1Password has added a fledgling passkey development tool to its stable of enterprise password manager products. The company said today it has acquired Texas-based...

Channel Bytes October 28, 2022 – New cloud-based ERP for SMBs; Cortex XSIAM now generally available; Distie Climb Channel Solutions partners with Viking Enterprise...

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Cybercrime still the leading cyber threat against Canadians: Federal report

Cybercrime is still the number one cyber threat to Canadians, according to the latest edition of the government’s national cyber threat report. In addition, the...

OpenSSL update to fix critical vulnerability

The OpenSSL project will issue a patch for a critical vulnerability on November 1st for its open-source security library, a rare event that application...

How to stop attackers from moving laterally through your network

One of the most important goals in every threat actor’s plans is to move laterally through a victim’s network after it has been initially...

Software supply chain issues worry IT leaders: BlackBerry

Organizations are increasingly finding serious cyber security issues in their software supply chain, according to a recent survey by BlackBerry. Just over three-quarters of...

BlackBerry secure communication suite gets the nod for NATO networks

The BlackBerry SecuSuite for Government communication platform has gained another certificate of trust, this time from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Communications and...

Proposed telecom cybersecurity law gives Canadian government too much secret power: Researcher

Last summer, the federal government proposed changes to the Telecommunications Act that it says will force Canadian telecom providers to toughen cybersecurity. However, a researcher...

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