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Chinese Hack on Microsoft Poses Imminent Threat to Australian Security: Expert

March 11, 2021
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The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) sounded the alarm on March 3, urging organisations to follow tech giant Microsoft’s instructions to patch vulnerable systems which came under threat by a state-sponsored Chinese cyber attacker. This comes after Microsoft announced on March 2 that a cyber actor based in China, which they called “Hafnium,” hacked its email…

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More Than 20,000 US Organizations Compromised Through Microsoft Flaw

March 8, 2021
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WASHINGTON—More than 20,000 U.S. organizations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft Corp.’s email software, a person familiar with the U.S. government’s response said on Friday. The hacking has already reached more places than all of the tainted code downloaded from SolarWinds Corp., the company at the heart…

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Cybersecurity Group Says Chinese Regime-Linked Hackers Hit Multiple US Targets

March 5, 2021
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Cybersecurity group FireEye said Thursday it found evidence that hackers linked to the Chinese regime exploited a flaw in a Microsoft email application to go after a number of American targets, including a university and local governments. FireEye analysts wrote in a blog post that the company built “higher-fidelity detections” and launched multiple threat hunting…

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New Maritime Cybersecurity Centre to Fight Pirates—and Not the Swashbuckling Kind

January 28, 2021
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MONTREAL—A new research centre created at Montreal’s Polytechnique university will aim to protect ships from pirates—and they’re not talking about Blackbeard or Captain Kidd. Canada’s Maritime Cyber Security Centre of Excellence will combine the expertise of two Polytechnique researchers, Quebec cybersecurity startup Neptune Cyber and Davie Shipbuilding. The five-year research project will focus on cybersecurity…

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Canadian Municipalities Stick With Online Voting Despite Concerns

December 31, 2020
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News Analysis Many Canadian municipalities continue to favour online voting and computerized vote counting despite controversies around these technologies and expert warnings about cybersecurity risks and other issues. Twelve Canadian municipalities used some form of online voting in 2003, 44 in 2010, 97 in 2014, and 194 in 2018, according to a CBC report. In the…

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Sen. Ron Johnson: Federal Government Needs to Partner With Private Sector for Cybersecurity

December 23, 2020
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said on Tuesday that the federal government should work with the private sector to improve cybersecurity. “What I’ve always believed is if you’re really looking for cybersecurity, we have to look to the private sector because the private sector is always going…

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