Information of thousands of drivers has been exposed in a data breach at the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) that went unnoticed for four years.
According to the DMV, Social Security information of 3,200 driver's license holders was improperly...
Security researchers from the University of Electro-Communications & Michigan discovered a new kind of injection attack that allows an attacker to infuse arbitrary audio signals into voice assistants using light.
The new attack dubbed “Light Commands” is a vulnerability that...
Security pros stated rebooting a computer after a ransomware attack could lead to restarting a crashed file-encryption process and cause potential loss of encryption keys stored in memory. Instead, the victims should hibernate the computer or disconnect it from...
Libarchive is a default compression library that is optimized for reading and writing compressed archive files in a single go. It means that Libarchive can process large archive files that cannot be stored on a disk and instead process...
The Australian government recently announced that it’s going to spend AU$8.5 million to create a national freight data hub. The government stated the new data hub helps businesses and governments make better operational decisions.
"A well-designed hub will improve access...
The Government of Nunavut is the latest victim of a sophisticated ransomware attack. In an official statement, the Premier of Nunavut, Joe Savikataaq, stated he noticed a new and advanced type of ransomware that affected their network systems across...
The number of reported data breaches in Canada increased by six times after the country implemented a new breach-reporting regulation.
The new regulation, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), went into effect on November 01, 2018. As...
By Joshua Blackborne
Cyberattacks have become a part of the reality of doing business in today’s digital landscape. Almost every company relies on computers, digital tools, and the internet these days, and this leaves us all exposed to cyberthreats.
Hackers and...
Cybersecurity research firm FireEye revealed that nearly 51 percent of organizations don’t believe that they’re capable of handling threats like cyberattacks or data breaches.
In its latest report, FireEye Cyber Trendscape Report 2020, FireEye stated that it surveyed over 800...
Enterprise cybersecurity and compliance company, Proofpoint, recently announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ObserveIT in an all-cash deal for US$ 225 million. The California-based company stated that the new acquisition helps the company to...
