About this episode

The episode discusses the use of Israeli spyware by Ontario Police and various cybersecurity incidents including a ransomware operation and a data breach at GitHub.

In this issue: Ontario Police Secretly Used Israeli Spyware, Watchdog Finds Microsoft Dismantles Fox Tempest, a Ransomware-Enabling Code-Signing Operation Canada Promotes VPNs While Passing a Law to Kill Them GitHub Breached: 4,000 Private Repos Stolen via Poisoned VS Code Extension CISA Contractor Exposes Federal Cloud Credentials on Public GitHub for Six Months In this issue: […]

People in this episode

Host: Mark E. Jeftovic

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• law enforcement
• ransomware
• privacy
• technology
• data breach

Keywords

• Ontario Police
• Israeli Spyware
• Microsoft
• ransomware
• GitHub breach
• CISA
• VPNs
• cloud credentials

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ontario Police, Israeli Spyware, Microsoft, Fox Tempest, Canada, GitHub, CISA

Places: Canada

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