HUNTSVILLE, ONT. - A town in Ontario's Muskoka region has shared more details about a cybersecurity incident earlier this month. The Town of Huntsville says it was hit on March 10 by a ransomware attack, in which vital digital information is held hostage for payment. Denise Corry, the town's chief administrative officer, says an “unauthorized user” infiltrated the town's systems and data was compromised. It remains unclear if the compromised data includes personal information. Services...
McDonald's Stores Hit By Multi-Nation "Technology Outage" A major technology outage forced McDonald's stores in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom to either shutter operations or suspend online ordering on Friday, CNN reported. "Many stores across the country have temporarily suspended operations," McDonald's Japan wrote in an X post, adding, "There is currently a system failure." "We are aware of a technology outage currently impacting our restaurants...
The Qilin ransomware group has targeted The Big Issue, a street newspaper sold by the homeless and vulnerable. Spost on Qilin's dark web leak site claimed the gang has stolen 550 GB of confidential data from the periodical's parent company. in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Nvidia is arguably the most important company in the tech sector these days, with each swing in its stock driving the Nasdaq Index higher and lower and a market cap that has more than tripled in the past year. So when it speaks, a lot of people listen. This week, Nvidia should have a lot to say. The company’s GTC conference is one of the hottest tech gatherings of the year. Historically, Nvidia has used it as a launch pad for some of its biggest products, including the Hopper graphics...
Fast food chain working to resolve problem but denies it has been hit by cybersecurity attackMcDonald’s restaurants in multiple countries including the UK and Australia have been hit by a “technology outage”, which the fast food chain denied had been caused by a cybersecurity attack.Australia, the UK, Japan and China were among the markets where services were affected, with restaurant, drive-through and online orders hit. Continue reading
The manufacturing sector in India has been the most targeted industry for ransomware extortion in 2023, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 said in its recently released report, titled 'Ransomware Retrospective 2024: Unit 42 Leak Site Analysis and Incident Response report 2024.'As part of the Ransomware Retrospective, they studied 3,998 leak site posts from various ransomware groups. Leak sites are platforms where threat actors publicly disclose stolen data as a means of coercing victims into paying...
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The Rolls-Royce share price has increased over 10-fold in the past few years. Our writer thinks there could be more to come.
On Monday evening, Blake Snell's free agency is over and the San Francisco Giants have reportedly emerged victorious in the sweepstakes.According to ESPN's Jeff Passan's post on X (formerly Twitter), Snell and the San Francisco Giants are in agreement on a two-year, $62 million contract that includes an opt-out after the first year.Jon Heyman of the New York Post broke the new first but Passan added that Snell's deal with the San Francisco Giants ends a free agency that stretched to nine days...
Ruth Jones, from Bridgend, Wales, spoke to Weekend Magazine about the rumours surrounding her hit television show, Gavin & Stacey.
With India's development continuing to gain steam, one of the biggest challenges will be to avoid the mistake that others have made when they failed to recognize their newly acquired global systemic