British Columbia's government is vulnerable to cyber security threats and needs to be unwavering in its search for possible attacks, said the province's auditor general.
In a report released Thursday, Russ Jones outlined how an audit by his office found security vulnerabilities ranking from medium to critical in more than half of the government's web applications that it reviewed.
Jones said the security audit, conducted from December 2012 to February 2013, produced a s...
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Cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated and collaborative with every coming year. To combat the threat in 2016, information security professionals must understand these five trends....
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Security researchers discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Moxa industrial switches, according to Positive Technologies and Moxa. Moxa published a security advisory stating that it had issued resolutions for the vulnerabilities in the EDS-405A, EDS-408A, EDS-510A, and IKS-G6824A series ethernet switches that are used to build industrial networks across several sectors including oil and gas, transportation, and maritime logistics. “A vulnerable switch can mean the compromise of the entire ...
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In the United States, disadvantaged families can apply for what’s known as “Section 8” housing assistance—access to apartments and other dwellings that are kept at an affordable rental rate specifically for low-income workers. The Federal Trade Commission is now warning that scammers are looking to take advantage of these struggling citizens....
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As is the case with most pending vendor support deadlines, the upcoming end of Microsoft Windows XP support on April 8, 2014 has been a polarizing topic in the enterprise and healthcare spaces. There are some organizations that may be unaware that Microsoft will no longer be providing security patches and others that are building Fort Knox 2.0 because of the XP end of support....
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Microsoft is rolling out a brace of threat fighting capabilities for Windows 10 administrators that promise to bring the big guns of the company’s security experts, as well as its AI capabilities, to bear against attackers. The new services are Microsoft Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Threat Experts, which is part of Windows Defender ATP. Both are intended to be used for security operations administrators and managers. Sentinel is a cloud-based threat analysis service that uses Microsoft&rsq...
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