Thursday, April 25, 2024

Hack targets a Canadian government website

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The Canadian government just suffered an embarrassing online security breach… although it wasnt as bad as it could have been. Officials temporarily took down key parts of two government websites, the tax-oriented Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada, for days after discovering that an unknown entity hacked the statistics bureaus website. The intruders took advantage of a recent vulnerability in Apache web server software to get in. While the CRA site wasnt attacked, it sha…
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