Canada bans TikTok, joining US and EU
The Canadian Government has finally joined the US and EU by banning TikTok on federal employee devices. “As of February 28, the TikTok app will be automatically removed and blocked…
TELUS breached? Employee and Corp Data potentially stolen
Canadian Telecom giant TELUS has told BleepingComputers they are investigating a potential leak of internal source code and employee data that may have been posted for sale on the Dark…
iPhone and iPad in danger from new exploits
Researchers at Trellix discovered a new Privilege Escalation bug which if exploited, could give an attacker access to a user’s messages, location data, call history and photos. They stated the…
European Commission follows others banning TikTok
Following other government bodies across the globe including India, Taiwan and almost 20 US States, the European Commission on Thursday moved to ban TikTok’s use on their corporate and BYOD…
Hackers broadcast Missile Strike Warning over radio in 10 cities across Russia
Warnings of an air raid or missile strikes that never occurred rang out on Wednesday morning, broadcast to millions of Russians in 10 cities throughout the country. A woman’s voice…
Phone number recycling leads to WhatsApp account takeovers
When mobile numbers are no longer needed by their subscribers, service providers release them back into the pool of available numbers after a given period, for future customers to use.…
Burton Snowboards shuts e-shop after “Cyber Incident”
Burlington, Vermont based snowboard and gear maker Burton has shutdown its e-commerce shop after a “cyber incident” that occurred on February 14th that impacted their operations. The company stated on…
US State Dept issues Best Practices for Military use of AI
The “Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy” was released by the US State department on Thursday, explaining their 12 best practices for the development and…
GoDaddy reports major breach spanning 3 years
One of the world’s largest domain registers and hosts was breached in a multi-year attack that compromised customer accounts and their websites, as reported to the SEC. GoDaddy said in…
GoAnywhere vulnerability to blame for 1mil patient info theft
Community Health Systems of Franklin, Tennessee reported to the SEC that they were breached via GoAnywhere MFT, a managed file transfer product by Fortra. 1 million patients’ data were stolen…