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Canadian supermarket and pharmacy chain Sobeys is recovering from a cyberattack that might have involved the Black Basta ransomware. Sobeys is the second largest supermarket chain in Canada and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Empire Company Limited, which operates more than 1,500 stores across the country, under brands such as Foodland, IGA, Lawtons, Needs, Safeway, and more. On November 7, Empire disclosed that it fell victim to a cyberattack that impacted some in-store systems at its…

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Microsoft-owned code hosting platform GitHub has announced the introduction of a direct channel for security researchers to report vulnerabilities in public repositories that allow it. The new private vulnerability reporting capability enables repository maintainers to allow security researchers to report to them any vulnerabilities identified in their code. Some repositories may contain specific instructions on how the maintainers can be contacted for vulnerability reporting, but for those that do not, researchers often report issues publicly.…

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Cybersecurity researchers said they have found evidence of Chinese spyware in Uyghur-language apps that can track the location and harvest the data of Uyghurs living in China and abroad. Uyghurs are a Turkic Muslim minority predominantly in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, where a recent UN report said Beijing may have committed crimes against humanity. The United States and lawmakers in other Western countries say China’s treatment of the Uyghurs amounts to genocide. A Thursday…

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LiteSpeed Web Server vulnerabilities discovered by researchers at Palo Alto Networks can be exploited to take complete control of a targeted server. The security holes were discovered during an audit of OpenLiteSpeed, the open source version of the LiteSpeed performance-focused web server made by LiteSpeed Technologies. Both versions are impacted by the vulnerabilities and they have been patched with the release of OpenLiteSpeed 1.7.16.1 and LiteSpeed 6.0.12. LiteSpeed is a popular web server and an…

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An analysis of the numerous LDAP queries that Russian cyberespionage group APT29 had made to the Active Directory system has led to the discovery of a vulnerability in Windows’ ‘credential roaming’ functionality. Also referred to as Cozy Bear, the Dukes, and Yttrium, APT29 is a Russian cyberespionage group likely sponsored by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). The group is believed to be responsible for multiple high-profile attacks, including the 2016 targeting of the Democratic…

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Security posture management startup Veriti has emerged from stealth mode with $18.5 million raised in two funding rounds led by Insight Partners and NFX and AMITI. Founded in 2021, the Tel Aviv-based company seeks to help organizations improve their security posture by proactively and continually hunting for and addressing security gaps and misconfigurations across the entire business environment. Veriti says it has designed its Unified Security Posture Management platform based on feedback from CISOs and…

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Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf Foods has confirmed that it is experiencing an outage after falling victim to a cyberattack. Created in 1991 by the merger of Canada Packers and Maple Leaf Mills, the packaged meats company is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario. Maple Leaf Foods has more than 14,000 employees and has market presence in Canada, the US, and Asia, offering products under several brands, including Maple Leaf, Schneiders, Mina, Greenfield Natural Meat Co., Lightlife,…

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Thirty-nine cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) deals were announced in October 2022. An analysis conducted by SecurityWeek showed that more than 230 mergers and acquisitions were announced in the first half of 2022. October 1-15 11:11 Systems acquires Sungard Availability Services’ Recovery Services business  Managed infrastructure solutions provider 11:11 Systems has acquired the Recovery Services business of Sungard Availability Services. Earlier this year, 11:11 announced the acquisition of Sungard’s Cloud and Managed Services business. 11:11…

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The mysticism that has allowed tech firms to make billions of dollars from surveillance is finally clearing, the boss of encrypted messaging app Signal told AFP. Meredith Whittaker, who spent years working for Google before helping to organise a staff walkout in 2018 over working conditions, said tech was “valorised” and “fetishised” when she first began in the industry in 2006. “The idea that technology represented the apex of innovation and progress was fairly pervasive…

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For many, proactively monitoring ESG risks is not only the right thing to do – it’s the right business strategy. More than ever investors, consumers and partners are using ESG factors to determine who they do business with.  In this session, Mastercard’s Johan Gerber, EVP, Cyber and Security Products, discusses: ● New industry findings on how organizations are navigating this new landscape ● The strategies and tools needed to mitigate ESG risk on a business’s supply chain and…

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