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60 Percent of Canadian Business Heads Say Hackers Targeted Their Organizations, Survey Finds

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Nearly three in five heads of Canadian businesses said they “either suspect of know for certain” that hackers targeted their organizations. In January 2017, the tax and business consulting firm MNP LLP sat down with 100 Canadian executives of mid- to large-enterprises along with 1,000 Canadian small-business owners to inquire about their organizations’ digital security. […]… Read More

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68% of Oil and Gas Organizations Have Suffered a Digital Attack, Reveals Report

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A new report reveals that 68 percent of oil and gas organizations have experienced at least one digital attack. In the Siemens-sponsored The State of Cybersecurity in the Oil & Gas Industry: United States (PDF), Ponemeon Institute surveyed 377 individuals based in the United States who are responsible for overseeing digital risk to their organization’s […]… Read More

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TeamSpy Data-Stealing Malware at It Again with New Spam Campaign

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Attackers have lots of ways of gaining access to a target’s information. One of their preferred attack vectors is exploiting careless end user behavior. This is especially true when it comes to users who don’t adequately protect their web accounts. For instance, bad actors targeted users of TeamViewer, software which allows IT professionals to gain […]… Read More

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CloudFlare Patched Parser Bug that Leaked Private Information

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CloudFlare has patched an issue in its HTML parser chain that caused a buffer overflow and returned memory containing private information. According to CloudFlare CTO John Graham-Cumming, the Internet performance and security company first learned of the bug on 17 February. Tavis Ormandy, a Google Project Zero researcher who’s previously found holes in several anti-virus […]… Read More

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CloudFlare Patched Parser Bug that Leaked Private Information

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CloudFlare has patched an issue in its HTML parser chain that caused a buffer overflow and returned memory containing private information. According to CloudFlare CTO John Graham-Cumming, the Internet performance and security company first learned of the bug on 17 February. Tavis Ormandy, a Google Project Zero researcher who’s previously found holes in several anti-virus […]… Read More

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The Top 10 Cities for Information Security Professionals in 2017

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A lack of skilled information security professionals poses a threat to most organizations. In Tripwire’s 2016 Security Challenge Survey – Skills Gap, 75 percent of IT security professionals said they don’t have enough skilled personnel to detect and respond to a breach. Almost the same percentage (66 percent) of respondents reported a dearth of trained […]… Read More

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Malicious Chrome Extension Punishes Users with Tech Support Scam

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A malicious Google Chrome extension punishes users who search for certain keywords by redirecting them to a tech support scam. Attackers introduce users to the rogue extension via a malvertising campaign. Most of the time, malicious adverts redirect users to an exploit kit that installs ransomware or other baddies. In this case, the advertisement leads […]… Read More

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