Collaborate Disseminate
New submitter nuckfuts writes: Canada’s Minister of Health is signalling that provinces may make vaccines mandatory in the coming months as the only way to deal with surging COVID-19 caseloads. It will be up to individual provinces to decide. Alberta’s… Continue reading Canada Considers Making Vaccines Mandatory
The Public Health Agency of Canada (or PHAC) “accessed location data from 33 million mobile devices to monitor people’s movement during lockdown,” reports Canada’s National Post newspaper:
“Due to the urgency of the pandemic, PHAC collected and used… Continue reading Canada’s Public Health Agency Criticized for Tracking 33M Mobile Devices
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly told industry leaders in a phone briefing Monday that a vulnerability in a widely-used logging library “is one of the most serious I’ve seen in my entire career, if not the most serious.” “We expect the vulnerability to be widely exploited by sophisticated actors and we have limited time to take necessary steps in order to reduce the likelihood of damage,” she said of the Apache Log4j flaw. The issue is an unauthenticated remote execution vulnerability that could allow an intruder to take over an affected device. Hundreds of millions of devices are likely to be affected, said Jay Gazlay of CISA’s vulnerability management office in the call with critical infrastructure owners and operators. CISA, a component of the Department of Homeland Security, is setting up a dedicated website as soon as Tuesday to provide information and counter “active disinformation,” said Eric […]
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By Deeba Ahmed
The accused became a suspect when the FBI contacted Canadian intelligence after observing a surge in ransomware attacks in Alaska in 2018.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Canadian Citizen Charged for Ransomware A… Continue reading Canadian Citizen Charged for Ransomware Attacks in Alaska
Long-time Slashdot reader thisisnotreal writes: Long sought-after, and previously thought impossible — a McMaster University PhD student in Hamilton Canada demonstrates a cost-effective and simple laser in silicon.
This could have dramatic cons… Continue reading Breakthrough By McMaster PhD Student Creates Laser In Silicon
Intruders accessed patient and employee data after infiltrating health-releated IT systems in a breach that’s only now coming into focus. A security incident affecting the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, first detected Oct. 30, took down multiple health networks, leading to the cancellation of thousands of appointments, including for chemotherapy treatments. The regional Eastern Health authority, which employees 13,000 people, on Tuesday announced that its email system was again functioning, more than a week after the initial compromise became known. “As part of the on-going investigation into a cyberattack that impacted health care IT systems in Newfoundland and Labrador, it has been determined that some personal information and personal health information was accessed from the systems,” the provincial government said in a Nov. 9 news release. “A review is ongoing to determine if any other information is affected in the incident and further updates will be provided as appropriate.” Hackers […]
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The White House on Wednesday and Thursday will convene meetings with representatives from more than 30 countries to discuss how to counter ransomware, leaving out the country the president most frequently criticizes for hosting gangs of hackers: Russia. “Participants will cover everything from efforts to improve national resilience, to experiences addressing the misuse of virtual currency to launder ransom payments, our respective efforts to disrupt and prosecute ransomware criminals and diplomacy as a tool to counter ransomware,” a senior administration official told reporters on Tuesday. The official didn’t specify why Russia didn’t get an invitation beyond unnamed “constraints.” The lack of an invitation this time “doesn’t preclude future opportunities for them to participate.” The U.S. also has other avenues for discussing ransomware with the Kremlin, the official said. The lack of an invitation for Russia exemplifies the tensions over when the U.S. might involve more adversarial nations in discussions over […]
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By Waqas
Although unconfirmed; the notorious REvil ransomware gang could be behind the DDoS attacks on VoIP.ms. Here’s what we know so far.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Canadian IP Firm VoIP.ms hit by non-stop extortion base… Continue reading Canadian IP Firm VoIP.ms hit by non-stop extortion based DDoS attacks
A Canadian startup called Nuula that is aiming to build a superapp to provide a range of financial services to small and medium businesses has closed $120 million of funding, money that it will use to fuel the launch of its app and first product, a line of credit for its users. The money is […] Continue reading Nuula raises $120M to build out a financial services ‘superapp’ aimed at SMBs
By Waqas
In total, CPA exposed 502 GB worth of data without any security authentication.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Calgary Parking Authority exposed sensitive data of residents
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