Digital Forensics & Cyber Security Blog
Digital Forensics & Cyber Security Blog
Ashley Madison May Provide Clues to Regulations Around Data Breach Disclosure
The upcoming mandatory requirement to disclose data breaches will help address some of the anxieties that Canadians have about cybersecurity and data protection, and may prescribe some precautions that organizations can take for remediation. What would these precautions look like? Think Ashley Madison, according to Chantal Bernier, a former interim [...]
Utah County Jails Help Some State Felons Rebuild Their Lives and Create a Community
When Jon Stubbs walked out of the Utah State Prison in the fall of 2016, he planned to find work, repair broken relationships and never get in trouble with the law again. So far, he’s done it. “Prison changed me,” Stubbs, now a co-owner of a trucking business, said from [...]
CSI Canines?
The problem of pet owners not cleaning up after their animals might make that a reality for one town in Colorado. Laurie Best, a senior planner with the town of Breckenridge, CO, said earlier this month that using forensic testing for dogs and their feces isn't a far-fetched idea to [...]
Blue Whale Suicide Game
If you search for the tag #BlueWhaleChallenge on social media you'll get a message like these: As someone who has never seen this type of warning on Instagram, Twitter or YouTube I found it incredibly alarming. The Challenge The Blue Whale Challenge is a "game" that has [...]
Salt Lake City Police are Working to End Fatal Officer-Involved Shootings
And it's working. Across the country, police officers have shot and killed at least over 1,000 people since 2015. There is currently a national debate over police reform sparked by the 2014 killing of Michael Brown. But officials in Salt Lake City have done more than talk, [...]
Microsoft Issues Adobe Patch to Tackle Flash Zero-Day
Microsoft has released Adobe's patch for a critical flaw in Flash Player that suspected North Korean hackers have exploited in malicious Excel sheets. Researchers at Cisco Talos said hackers known as Group 123 were using the zero-day Flash flaw and Excel sheets to deliver the ROKRAT remote-administration tool. The use-after-free vulnerability in [...]
Half of Norway Had Their Data Compromised
Hackers have breached the systems of Norway's Health South East RHF (Helse Sør-Øst RHF), and possibly made off with personal information and health records of approximately 3 million Norwegians. Health South-East is investigating an unauthorized intrusion into its IT systems which may have breached the personal data of over half [...]
A Vancouver Driver Was Caught Playing Pokemon Go While Driving
In November, a Canadian man took distracted driving to a new level by setting up his own entertainment system on his steering wheel with string. He was caught when a traffic officer spotted him wearing headphones and noticed a tablet and mobile phone attached to the wheel. The Vancouver Police [...]
iPhone Gadgets We Actually Want
If you'll be shopping on Black Friday these are come gadgets that are worth checking out. This Classic Mac Style Phone Dock That'll Flash You Back To Elementary School Grab one of these docks, download the Word Munchers app, and bring your iPhone back to 1989. This Tiny iDisk That'll Double Your Phone's [...]
A Flaw in Google’s Bug Tracker Exposed Private Security Vulnerability Reports
The bug allowed the researcher to see the most sensitive vulnerabilities in Google's services. However the bug was patched within an hour of learning about the exploit. Google has an internal platform called Google Issue Tracker that tracks a list of bugs and unpatched vulnerabilities, but that platform itself had [...]