Author: Canary Trap

Japanese car maker Toyota this week announced that cloud configuration issues have led to years-long exposure of customer data.

The impacted environments, which are managed by Toyota Connected Corporation (TC), contain information related to the vehicles of Japanese customers, as well as the personal information of customers overseas.

The firm’s data, which was initially reported by Bleeping Computer, shows that 362 servers in the U.S. and 240 servers in Canada had been affected by the ransomware, as of this writing. More than 2,400 servers running the VMware ESXi hypervisor are currently impacted in total, and the U.S. and Canada rank second and fourth, respectively, in terms of […]

The sophistication of the technology employed by threat actors has increased along with the number of threats. Data has evolved as an essential resource of an intelligent business, used for everything from daily operations to developing long-term plans. Data security becomes increasingly tricky as its value and business importance increase. Organizations are becoming aware of […]

In the two weeks since the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto was the target of a ransomware attack, the institution continues to deal with cybersecurity issues. Nick Westoll reports. It’s been two weeks since the Hospital for Sick Kids was the target of a ransomware attack, and not only are sick kids staff still […]

The mantra of the year: Trust no one. Technology executives in a recent CIO Journal end-of-year survey shared their priorities for 2023. While recruiting and retaining talent and leading through a tightening economy topped many to-do lists, the long tail of priorities encompassed everything from modernization to sustainability. Below are edited highlights of CIO responses […]