Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday, September 2nd. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
In a few minutes I’ll be joined by Terry Cutler, head of Montreal’s Cyology Labs, to talk about some of the news from the past seven days. First, here’s a roundup:
More information is coming out about the impact of the successful text-based phishing attack against messaging provider Twilio. Last week identity security provider Okta said the hackers stole some SMS text-based one-time passwords of customers, and we learned hackers also compromised the Authy multifactor setup accounts of some of users. Terry and I will look at the widespread impact of this attack.
We’ll also examine how a university student fell for an email job offer scam.
And because yesterday was International Women in Cyber Day, Terry will have thoughts on encouraging more women to enter the profession.
Also this week, we learned attackers are finding new ways to leverage the Log4j2 vulnerability. Microsoft warned that a hacking group has found and is trying to exploit vulnerabilities in unpatched service and help desk software made by an Israeli company called SysAid. According to experts at the SANS Institute, the group behind this, suspected of being link ..
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