Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday, March 25th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
In a few minutes I’ll be joined by guest commentator David Shipley of New Brunswick’s Beauceron Security to talk about events from the past seven days:
The Lapsus$ extortion group struck again, catching two big tech companies off-guard. Microsoft admitted one employee was hacked. It didn’t say what was copied but Lapsus$ released some 37 GB of what appears to include source code for the Bing search engine. The other victim was Okta, a major provider of identity and access management solutions to big corporations. At first Okta dismissed the impact of what Lapsus$ posted on its data leak site. But by Wednesday it admitted it should have been more aggressive in investigating the hack of a contract customer support worker. David and I will talk about Okta’s belated response.
We’ll also take a look at a ransomware survey of Canadian organizations done by Telus, Canada’s third biggest telco. Among the findings: Only 42 per cent of firms that paid got full access to their…
