Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday, July 29th, 2022 I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
In a few minutes I’ll be joined by David Shipley, head of New Brunswick’s Beauceron Security for a discussion. But first a quick look back at some headlines:
Rogers Communications told a parliamentary committee and the federal telecommunications regulator that nothing it knew or did could have prevented the huge internet and wireless network outage its customers suffered on July 8th. Its key distribution routers reacted in an unpredictable way to a maintenance update. Which left many people wondering if a national collapse could happen again. Unlikely, says Rogers, we’re separating the two networks and taking other action.
The average number of weekly attacks faced by organizations in the second quarter was up 32 per cent compared to the same period last year. According to research from Check Point Software, in part that’s due to threat actors trying to take advantage early in the year of the Log4j2 vulnerability and partly due to the cyber war coming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. David and I will discuss what this report means.
We’ll also look at a report that phishing was believed to be the initial avenue of compromise in a study breaches of security controls at 600 organizations in the past year. The second most likely cause was the exploitation of vulnerabilities.
And we’ll also discuss the seemingly never-ending demand for employees with cybersecurity training or experience.
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