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Governments must do more to fight ransomware, says insurance industry

Governments and regulators have to do more to counter groups and individuals behind ransomware attacks, says a group representing global insurance companies. The recommendation is...

Sophos channel partners set to play key role in new initiative

U.K. cybersecurity vendor Sophos today unveiled a new cross-operational unit it said is designed to help organizations better defend against “constantly changing and increasingly...

Log4j vulnerability has reached endemic proportions, says report

After investigating a vulnerability discovered in late 2021 in the Log4j Java Library, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Cyber ​​Safety Review Board...

Channel Bytes July 8, 2022 – Computer Charity Golf Classic; IBM buys Databand; TDL acquires Gentek ; and more

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Worried about your firm’s internet and telecom resiliency? Ask these questions

The cross-Canada internet and wireless outages caused by last week's incident at Rogers Communications should make corporate telecom and IT decision-makers think carefully about...

Malicious modules found in NPM library were downloaded thousands of times

More malicious Javascript code has been found in packages available on the open-source NPM repository, say researchers at ReversingLabs, highlighting the most recent discovery...

IT leaders admit having blind spots in attack surface visibility: Report

Despite investing money into cybersecurity, many Canadian organizations -- and their global peers -- admit they still have visibility problems into their IT systems,...

NIST names first four quantum-resistant encryption tools

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen the first group of encryption tools it believes will withstand the assault of...

One in four SMBs would leave their MSP over quality issues: Report

A new report from Action 1 Corp. has found that upwards of 23 per cent, or close to one in four small and midsize...

Too many Canadian firms have ’emerging’ cybersecurity maturity, survey suggests

Many Canadian firms still have a long way to go to be considered a mature cybersecurity organization, if a study for a vendor is...

Attackers abusing another threat simulation tool, report warns

Cybersecurity product manufacturers are being urged to adapt their applications to detect abuse of a new commercial attack simulation tool being used by threat...

Backdoor is being installed in Microsoft’s IIS web server, warn Kaspersky researchers

Threat actors are installing a backdoor into installations of Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) Windows web server that isn't being caught by some online...

Channel Bytes June 24, 2022 – Cloudflare announces Zero Trust partner program; Ermetic automates JIT cloud access; new channel program from DoControl; and more

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Canadian password manager adds dashboard to business edition

A Canadian password management application has added a dashboard to make it easier for IT administrators to see how many employees aren't taking advantage...

Cloudflare, Microsoft 365 suffer major outages

Two major IT providers suffered service problems this morning, causing CIOs and CISOs hours of grief. A huge outage affected more than a dozen of...

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