![]() This began in 2020 as an education initiative by Kaspersky and the Interpol police co-operative. Howard: From Montreal, I’m joined by Terry Cutler. (The following transcript has been edited for clarity) ![]() Microsoft will have to issue a fix for the fix.Īnd Siemens released advisories on vulnerabilities in a number of products, including several of its Desigo internet-connected building automation devices. But some that are installed on domain controller servers are causing authentication failures. Microsoft released its security updates for Windows on Patch Tuesday this week. The updates stop an attacker with kernel-level privileges from getting full control over affected computers. HP released a security update for the BIOS in a number of business notebooks, desktop PCs, point of sale PCs, workstations and thin clients. The province of Quebec launched a bug bounty program, which will reward researchers who find vulnerabilities in select government applications. Security researchers urged network administrators to patch their F5 Network BIG-IP security devices to close a serious vulnerability. Separately, researchers at Secureworks have joined other experts saying that after an interruption in operations there’s more evidence the REvil ransomware gang is back in business. He suspects it’s because economic sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine are making it harder for Russian-based criminals to organize attacks and receive ransomware payments. Why? Because the company’s incident response plan allegedly wasn’t thorough.Īnd we’ll also look at the acknowledgment by Ikea Canada that an employee searched through the company’s customer database in March without permission.Īlso this week, the director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency told a British cyber event that the number of ransomware attacks worldwide has gone down in recent months. Speaking of ransomware, we’ll have a few words to say about a proposal to fine Colonial Pipeline after last year’s ransomware attack in the U.S. Everybody’s against ransomware, but what can IT leaders do about it? Terry will have some answers. But first a look back at some of what happened in the past seven days: ![]() ![]() In a few minutes Terry Cutler, head of Montreal’s Cyology Labs, will join me for a discussion about three recent news stories. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for. From Toronto, this is the Week in Review edition for Friday May 13th, 2022. Artificial Intelligence (655) Auto Tech (23) Blockchain (123) CanadianCIO (69) Careers & Education (4397) Channel Strategy (21) Cloud (1938) Communications & Telecom (262) Companies (279) Data & Analytics (1223) Development (506) Digital Transformation (1017) Distribution (92) Diversity & Inclusion (32) Ecommerce (71) Emerging Tech (24060) End User Hardware (12) Engineering (75) Financial Services (81) FinTech (64) Future of Work (286) Governance (68) Government & Public Sector (5919) Human Resources (780) Infrastructure (8470) IoT (6158) ITWC Morning Briefing (94) Leadership (4232) Legal (43) Legislation (104) Managed Services & Outsourcing (4295) Marketing (48) MarTech (2) Medical (15) Mobility (3409) Not For Profit (6) Open Source (17) Operations (49) People (57) Podcasts (1767) Privacy (515) Project Management (1099) Security (7075) Service (22) Smart Home (10) SMB (34) Social Networks (101) Software (4090) Supply Chain (99) Sustainability (43) Tech in Sports (3) Women in Technology (159)
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