Infrastructure

CN Rail reports ‘internet connectivity incident’ disrupting Ontario passenger service

CN Rail says an IT incident affecting passenger rail service in the Toronto area it began suffering this afternoon isn’t related to cybersecurity. “It’s an internet connectivity incident,” a company spokesperson told IT World Canada at 4:30 p.m Eastern. “At this point nothing indicates it’s a cybersecurity breach.” In a tweet, CN described the problem

Solution to hardware flaw in Intel CPUs may cause large performance hit

A hardware flaw in Intel Core and Xeon CPUs lets attackers steal data from other users on the same system, including on servers that use Intel’s SGX memory protections, according to a Google researcher. According to SC Magazine, Daniel Moghimi told the Black Hat 2023 security conference this week that the vulnerability, dubbed “Downfall”, endangers

Voyager 2 incommunicado after antenna points in wrong direction

Voyager 2, NASA's 46-year-old spacecraft, is now incommunicado after its antenna pointed in the wrong direction. The space agency revealed that the spacecraft's antenna has...

IT coalition promises to improve patching, network visibility

The Network Resilience Coalition brings competing vendors together to improve the security of data and I

More EU countries urged to ban Huawei, ZTE from 5G networks

The European Union's industry head, Thierry Breton, has urged more EU member states to join the ten nations that have previously blocked or banned...

Pro-Russian group reportedly claimed a Canadian pipeline operator was hacked. Canadians are skeptical

Group called Zarya allegedly told a Russian agent it has network access, but the claim is

World Backup Day: Time to think about the task few IT pros want

Backup 'isn't the sexiest part of IT' says one expert. Read what to d

Zero trust advice: Start small, but get started

The year's first MapleSec Satellite series featured Cloudsec's field CTO tal

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