The results of a recent IDC survey, Board Engagement in Digital Transformation (DX), on a scale of one to ten, directors, CEOs and digital leaders all rate their satisfaction with transformational results at a three. Further, 48 per cent of Directors are seeing little or no direct value contribution from DX leaders. The research provides […]
Server-side request forgery is a dangerous attack method that is also becoming an issue for the cloud. Here are some of the basics to help keep your Web server from turning against you. When it’s time to talk attacks, it’s hard to get more evil than a technique that uses victims’ own systems against them. […]
Patch comes amid active exploitation by ransomware gangs Networking hardware vendor Zyxel today released an update to fix a critical flaw in many of its network attached storage (NAS) devices that can be used to remotely commandeer them. The patch comes 12 days after KrebsOnSecurity alerted the company that precise instructions for exploiting the vulnerability were […]
Do social media listen in on our conversations in order to target us with ads? Or are we just a bit paranoid? A little test might speak a thousand words. We have all heard that our phones could be listening to our everyday conversations in order to then bombard us with targeted adverts. Is there […]
Secure Access Service Edge is a new name for a known and growing architecture designed to strengthen security in cloud environments. Secure access service edge, also known as SASE (pronounced “sassy”), is a term popping up more in security conversations as businesses grapple with the challenge of secure networking in the cloud. SASE combines WAN […]
Four of Canada’s privacy commissioners have launched a joint investigation into whether a U.S. company’s facial recognition technology, which scrapes images from the internet for comparative purposes, violates privacy laws here. The federal privacy commissioner and commissioners in Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec said Friday they are investigating Clearview AI about whether the company is […]
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” – George Bernard Shaw Calgary, the historical heart of the Canadian oil & gas industry, is at a once-in-an-epoch inflection point that will determine our destiny for this next millennium and beyond. Energy sources and technologies that have powered […]
Enterprise VulnerabilitiesFrom DHS/US-CERT’s National Vulnerability Database CVE-2012-1093PUBLISHED: 2020-02-21 The init script in the Debian x11-common package before 1:7.6+12 is vulnerable to a symlink attack that can lead to a privilege escalation during package installation. CVE-2012-0828PUBLISHED: 2020-02-21 Heap-based buffer overflow in Xchat-WDK before 1499-4 (2012-01-18) xchat 2.8.6 on Maemo architecture could allow remote attackers to cause […]
The data scientist role emerged as a sought-after position during the 2010s. Demand for data scientists is continuing to grow. Mr. Khaled Hasna, a technical recruiter with IT-IQ Inc. observes, “significant growth in demand for data science in the finance and insurance sectors – anywhere where risk assessment is required.” The numbers back this up. […]
The organization, which sells patient administration tools to hospitals, could not confirm whether patient data was accessed. A Feb. 11 ransomware attack targeting NRC Health has driven concerns about the security of patient data stored on the organization’s servers. NRC Health manages patient survey systems and works with 75% of the 200 largest hospital chains […]