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Breaches

SickKids Says Third-Party Software Flaw Exposed Employee and Applicant Data

Toronto's largest paediatric hospital confirms a breach affecting HR records. Patient files were not touched.

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Threat Intelligence

DHS Database Breached, Adobe Speeds Up Patches, and Canada Shuts Down Ransomware Groups

A busy week in security news brought a breach at a US government agency, a faster fix schedule from a major software maker, and a Canadian crackdown on ransomware criminals. Here is what you need to know.

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Breaches

Calgary university loses student and staff files to hackers who wiped the originals

Mount Royal University says a June 17 break-in ended with stolen data on shared drives and a ransom demand of 30 bitcoin from a group calling itself CMD Organization.

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Policy & Regulation

CSIS Got a Warrant to Reach Into Canadian Routers and Kill Two Botnets

A Federal Court ruling unsealed June 15 is the first public use of CSIS threat-reduction warrant powers against infected infrastructure on Canadian soil.

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Policy & Regulation

Justice Department Charges Ottawa Man With Operating Kimwolf DDoS Botnet

Federal prosecutors say Jacob Butler, 23, developed and rented out a variant of the AISURU botnet for paid denial-of-service attacks.

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