By Paul, KatigbakSenior vice-president, commercial sales, Dell EMC Canada Today, most organizations – from small businesses to large global enterprises – find themselves in the midst of a digital transformation journey. While at varying stages, these transformations are changing the way we conduct business, and store and manage data. One area of transformation that is […]
A Colorado company that specializes in providing IT services to dental offices suffered a ransomware attack this week that is disrupting operations for more than 100 dentistry practices, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Multiple sources affected say their IT provider, Englewood, Colo. based Complete Technology Solutions (CTS), was hacked, allowing a potent strain of ransomware known as […]
Money meant to fund an Israeli startup wound up directly deposited to the scammers. Some cyberattacks involve extremely sophisticated tools and cutting-edge exploits. Others, not so much. A case in point is an incident involving a Chinese venture capital firm and an Israeli startup that it had agreed to fund. Nearly all it took for […]
When audience members at this week’s Technicity event were asked if they were engaged with the City of Toronto on a procurement basis, out of the roughly 300 people in attendance, very few hands went up. Seeing more hands raised is one of the city’s priorities as it continues to try and connect its divisions […]
The attack struck CyrusOne’s managed services division and compromised six customers primarily serviced by a New York data center. CyrusOne, a major provider of data center facilities with more than 1,000 customers and 45 data centers, this week confirmed a ransomware attack aimed at its managed services division. In a statement issued Thursday, the company […]
An email gift card scam, please stop re-using passwords and more open data found on Amazon storage. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday December 6th. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cyber security for ITWorldCanada.com. To hear the podcast, click on the arrow below: After criminals hack an email account they try to make […]
What are some of the most common warning signs that your child is experiencing online harassment? Cyberbullying is by no means a new phenomenon; in fact, the term was added to the Oxford Dictionary back in 2011. However, as technology permeates almost every facet of our lives, the threat of online harassment is becoming more […]
The resurrected PowerToys open source project released a new utility lately that would take your file renaming skill to a new level. PowerRename is a Windows Shell Context Menu Extension for advanced bulk renaming using a simple search-and-replace or powerful regular expression matching. See the demo below how easy it is to replace all the […]
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Vulnerability in the Aviatrix VPN client, since patched, gives an attacker unlimited access to a breached system. A VPN vulnerability that provided both initial access to a victim’s computer and privilege escalation once access was granted has been disclosed. The vulnerability in the Aviatrix VPN client, used by large organizations such as NASA and Shell, […]