The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is probing a data breach of the U.S. federal courts system dating back to 2020, a government official revealed on July 28. During a hearing at the House Judiciary Committee, Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) told lawmakers that three “hostile foreign actors” had attacked the document filing system of U.S….

A rash of cyberattacks has targeted government websites in Canada recently, with the latest one prompting several federal and provincial government agencies to shut down their systems. On Dec. 10, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security issued an alert about a “critical vulnerability” in Apache Log4j—a widely used logging software—which would allow an unauthorized actor…

By Dr. Steven Ghim On any given news day, you can find a headline detailing the latest cybersecurity attack on a big business. But should mom-and-pop shops take this threat as seriously as Wall Street bigwigs? The answer is an inarguable “yes.” Hackers aren’t just focusing on major corporations anymore. If your personal email has ever been compromised, you’ve…

U.S. Census Bureau computer servers were exploited last year during a cybersecurity attack, but it didn’t involve the 2020 census, and hackers’ attempts to keep access to the system were unsuccessful, according to a watchdog report released Wednesday. The attack took place in January 2020 on the bureau’s remote access servers. According to the Office…