[ad_1] October is Cybersecurity Awareness month but 2024 might be the year that digital fraud took on a dangerous new year-round urgency, in Canada and around the world. In today’s increasingly digital economy, cybersecurity has become an essential focus for businesses of all sizes, particularly small businesses and fintechs. To discuss the unique challenges these...Read More

[ad_1] Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance said on Oct. 31 that his phone was hacked by Chinese entities. Speaking during an episode of the “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, Vance said that Chinese hackers breached his cellphone but that most of his messages were encrypted using third-party apps such as Signal. “I don’t...Read More

[ad_1] The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre), part of the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE), has released its National Cyber Threat Assessment 2025-2026 (NCTA 2025-2026) to better deal with an expanding and complex cyber threat landscape with a growing cast of malicious and unpredictable state and non-state cyber threat actors, from cyber criminals...Read More

[ad_1] The daughter of a widowed woman who was found dead under what she claims are mysterious circumstances says her mother gave her entire life savings of $1.5 million to the grifter. Now, she’s speaking out to warn of the dangers of romance scams. Laura Kowal, 57, joined Match.com and fell in love with a man...Read More

[ad_1] The staging is elaborate: a backdrop resembling a police station with officers in uniform and ambient crackle of wireless sets, high-profile names dropped on the go — from IPS officers to celebrities and politicians — and institutions such as CBI, ED, RBI and even the Supreme Court invoked. And fear is the weapon: victims...Read More

[ad_1] [Lauren Taylor] A FORMER DISNEY WORLD EMPLOYEE IS ACCUSED OF HACKING THE COMPANY’S SERVERS TO CHANGE MENUS – INCLUDING ADDING FALSE PEANUT ALLERGY INFORMATION.  ACCORDING TO A FEDERAL COMPLAINT, MICHAEL SCHEUER (shoe-er) FALSELY CLAIMED CERTAIN FOODS AS PEANUT FREE, CHANGED PRICES AND PRINTED PROFANE LANGUAGE.  THE COMPLAINT SAYS SCHEUER WAS A MENU PRODUCTION MANAGER...Read More

[ad_1] Joe Ariganello VP of Product Marketing Joe is the VP of Product Marketing at MixMode. He has led product marketing for multiple cybersecurity companies, with stops at Anomali, FireEye, Neustar and Nextel, as well as various start-ups. Originally from NY, Joe resides outside Washington DC and has a BA from Iona University. In an...Read More

[ad_1] A former worker hacked servers at Walt Disney World after being fired in order to manipulate computer menus by changing prices, adding profanities and altering notifications to wrongly declare some items as safe for people with allergies, according to a federal criminal complaint. The former employee was arrested last week following an investigation by...Read More

[ad_1] Attorney General Tim Griffin on Thursday announced a $1 million grant to establish new research and educational resources for students who major in cybersecurity at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Using unrestricted lawsuit settlement funds, Griffin said the forthcoming Cyberspace Operations Research and Education (CORE) Center will be an opportunity for the...Read More

[ad_1] Breach Notification , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Healthcare Colorado Laboratory Already Facing Several Proposed Class Action Breach Lawsuits Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • October 31, 2024     Medical testing labs have been the targets of some major attacks by cybercriminals (Image: Getty Images) Six months after an employee opened a phishing email...Read More