Welcome to Cyber Security Today. From Toronto, this is the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday, February 24th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S.
In a few minutes Terry Cutler of Montreal’s Cyology Labs will be here to discuss recent news. But first a summary of some of what happened in the last seven days:
Twitter users will soon have to pay to get their two-factor authentication (2FA) codes by SMS. They’ll have to subscribe to the premium Twitter Blue service. Is this logical? Terry and I have opinions.
More malware has been discovered in the open-source NPM and PyPI code repositories. We’ll ask why repository operators can’t put a lid on this.
Game developer Activision acknowledged it was hacked in December after an employee fell for a text messaging scam. That will be part of our discussion.
In France five people were indicted for using a device normally only accessible to police. They used it to capture hundreds of thousands of mobile phone numbers for spam.
And Gartner predicts there may be upheaval in infosec departments. Stress is causing cybersecurity…
