Two Lapsus$ gang members sentenced in U.K.
One of two British teens in the Lapsus$ hacking gang has been sent to a secure hospital indefinitely by a judge, while another was given a youth rehabilitation order. According to Bloomberg News, Judge Patricia Lees ruled an 18-year old accused of computer crimes should be placed in a secure hospital until a mental health […]
CRTC to bring high-speed internet to remote communities including Nunavut for the first time
The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has disbursed $39.7 million from the Broadband Fund to bring high-speed internet to 28 remote communities in Northern Ontario, Northern British Columbia, and, for the first time, in Nunavut. The CRTC said that municipalities, residents, businesses, and non-governmental organizations in Nunavut submitted letters to the commission emphasizing how high-speed […]
R|T: The Retail Times – Etsy and Bolt make cuts as revenue growth dips
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Growclass’ Sarah Stockdale on the new rules of marketing
Sarah Stockdale, the founder of growth marketing program Growclass, believes the era of lazy marketing is now over, signalling a fundamental shift in how brands engage with their customers. Today’s customers aren’t congregating in the same digital spaces, Stockdale pointed out in a sit-down interview with BetaKit at SAAS NORTH 2023. Facebook is shedding younger […]
Scraped images of sexually abused children found in AI training database
Thousands of images of sexually abused children scraped from the internet are part of a commonly-used database used to train artificial intelligence image generators, according to a report, which warns that AI applications can use offensive photos to create realistic-looking fake child exploitation images that can be sold. The report, released today by the Stanford […]
Threat actors still exploiting old unpatched vulnerabilities, says Cisco
The exploitation of a vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit file transfer application was one of the biggest cybersecurity news headlines of the year. However, according to Cisco Systems, the most targeted vulnerabilities this year — as in previous years — were older security flaws in common applications. That again underscores the preference of threat actors […]
AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region goes live
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the opening of its second infrastructure region in Canada, AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. It offers three Availability Zones (AZs): large data centres which are, AWS said, “located far enough from each other to support customers’ business continuity, but near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications […]
U.S. drug store chain banned from using facial recognition for five years
Rite Aid, an American drug store chain, will be banned by a regulator from using facial recognition applications to identify suspicious customers for five years because of the way it implemented the technology. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said today its proposed order will settle charges that the retailer failed to implement reasonable procedures […]
Federal government delays funding programs targeted towards R&D and SMBs
The Department of Finance Canada and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) announced in a joint statement yesterday that the launch of Canada Innovation Corporation (CIC), initially slated for 2023, will be delayed to 2026-2027. That means CIC might not happen at all if there is a change in government after the next general […]
Cyber Security Today, Dec. 20, 2023 – Data on over 35 million Comcast customers stolen because patching wasn’t fast enough
Data on over 35 million Comcast customers stolen because patching wasn’t fast enough. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, December 20th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. American telecommunications provider Comcast Cable wasn’t fast enough to patch a Citrix vulnerability. And that led to the […]