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A comprehensive and regularly tested cybersecurity incident
response plan is an essential part of an effective cybersecurity
program. In September 2020, the cybersecurity agencies of the Five
Eyes nations - Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom
and the United States - issued a technical advisory to help
organizations pro-actively defend against, and effectively respond
to, cybersecurity incidents. The Advisory provides useful guidance
for establishing and assessing the technical aspects of a
cybersecurity incident response plan.
Cybersecurity Incident Response Plans
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security s
Hackers Access Personal, Banking Info of TransLink Employees in Ransomware Attack
Hackers accessed the personal and banking information of TransLink employees during a cyberattack that targeted the company’s IT infrastructure earlier this month.
The hackers “accessed and may have copied files from a restricted network drive,” according to an internal email by Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC) to their employees. CMBC is the transit service company under the TransLink enterprise serving passengers in Metro Vancouver.
The email was obtained by The Global News on Wednesday, and said that the files contain payroll information such as banking information and social insurance numbers of employees from TransLink, CMBC, and Vancouver Transit Police, alongside with other network drives.
Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity provides new analysis and
forecasts on threats to Canadians
In November 2020 the Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity
( Cyber Centre ) issued its second National Cyberthreat Assessment document (the Report ), which assesses the most pressing threats to
cybersecurity in Canada today. The document updates the National Cyberthreat Assessment 2018 (NCTA
2018), analysing the interim years and providing forecasts until
2022, and its analysis of trends and predictions makes for
interesting if rather grim reading.
The Report noted that as technologies such as artificial
intelligence (AI), the internet of Things (IoT), the Industrial
Internet of Things (IIoT), and cloud computing play an increasingly