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News – MeriTalk ·
The Army reassigned its enterprise cloud organization from the Headquarters, Department of the Army Chief Information Officer to U.S. Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER), bringing enterprise cloud management under the command responsible for...
News – MeriTalk ·
As agentic artificial intelligence (AI) gains traction across the public and private sectors, one line of questioning emerged repeatedly at MeriTalk’s Mission Room today: “Can it? May it?” For federal agencies experimenting with systems...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is advising federal agencies to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) throughout the hiring process while applying risk controls based on how the technology is used in employment...
News – MeriTalk ·
26 released its fiscal year 2026 Ground Combat Element (GCE) 2040 framework, which lays out priorities for artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, human-machine teaming, and tactical-edge computing as the service modernizes ground...
News – MeriTalk ·
27 permanently blocked the Defense Department’s (DOD) “supply-chain risk” designation of Anthropic, delivering a legal victory to the artificial intelligence (AI) company amid an ongoing dispute over military access to its frontier AI...
CISA Alerts · · Low severity
Executive summary Note: This advisory relates to an active threat to Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs). However, ongoing PLC targeting activity is broader than Siemens PLCs. All PLC owners and operators should...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a local attacker with low privileges to extract user credentials (passwords and authentication tokens) from system memory, potentially leading to unauthorized...
CISA Alerts · · Critical severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in full Remote Code Execution (RCE) as the web server user. The following versions of Zoneminder are affected: Zoneminder 1.37.48|1.38.3 CVSS Vendor Equipment...
CISA Alerts ·
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to access sensitive information and override user permissions. The following versions of Rently Smart Home are affected: Smart Home <=20.1.0 CVSS...
CISA Alerts ·
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to alter device settings. The following versions of FURUNO FA-50 Class B AIS Transponder are affected: FURUNO FA-50 Class B AIS Transponder...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause the loss of ABS functions, steering assist, speedometer, shifting capabilities, or disable automatic traction control. The following...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized administrative access, disclose sensitive information, modify device configuration, hijack authenticated sessions, and...
CISA Alerts ·
Advisory at a Glance Title A Tale of Two SOCs: Insights From Two Red Team Assessments Original Publication August 25, 2026 Executive Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) conducted simultaneous red team...
CISA Alerts ·
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote, authenticated or unauthenticated attacker to disclose sensitive information, arbitrarily modify the device to cause a denial of service, or alter a...
CISA Alerts ·
View CSAF Summary SIMATIC IoT2050 Advanced devices running Industrial OS with Node-RED installed contain a missing authentication vulnerability in the Node-RED HTTP interface that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to create...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
Most compromises do not rely on advanced techniques or cutting-edge tools. Cyber threat actors scan the internet looking for exposed, well-known software vulnerabilities to exploit. Basic security failures enable most compromises and...
CISA Alerts · · Critical severity
CISA has added six new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2015-3246 Red Hat Libuser Race Condition Vulnerability CVE-2015-5287 Red Hat Automatic Bug...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to read or write arbitrary local files, cause the application to issue outbound network requests, or intercept the connection to impersonate the...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands or code remotely on affected systems. The following versions of All-Line Equipment Company Fuel-Boss are affected:...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to fully compromise the device. The following versions of Ebyte NA111-M are affected: NA111-M Firmware 9013-2-17 (CVE-2026-73125, CVE-2026-76179,...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, a timeout error, or a communication delay by sending a specially crafted UDP packet to the...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause an out-of-bounds read, resulting in a denial-of-service condition in the affected products. The following versions of Mitsubishi...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to take control over the device. The following versions of Xiiaozet LK100W are affected: LK100W <2.1.240 (CVE-2026-78037, CVE-2026-78239,...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could reduce the computational cost required for an attacker to perform offline brute-force attacks against stored password hashes. The following versions of Rockwell...
BetaKit ·
Montréal-based Élisa Interactive has raised an $875,000 pre-seed round to create entirely new worlds … in the video game Roblox. “People go [on Roblox ] to get together and have fun online, and that’s what we’re betting on.” Founded by...
BetaKit ·
Could an experimental drug compound once studied as a diabetes treatment also fight deadly superbugs? In 2020, an AI model gave researchers a promising answer to that question, identifying halicin’s ability to kill bacteria , including...
BetaKit ·
Calgary-based Helcim raised fresh financing and reported more than $150 million CAD in annual revenue as it looks to fill a new vacuum within Canada’s payments infrastructure. The news: The Calgary-based payments processor announced on...
BetaKit ·
Ilya Sutskever, Garrett Camp, Michelle Zatlyn, Ivan Zhao. All leading names in Silicon Valley, and all Canadian. They are just a few of the people you’ll find on the Dominion List , a database created by VC Antoine Nivard earlier this year.
BetaKit ·
There’s a wildfire moving toward your home. It’s blocked your usual highway route out of town. Do you know your back roads well enough to get to safety?
BetaKit ·
Osedea has acquired fellow Québec-based tech consultancy Ventriloc to add capabilities that can help it take on larger competitors. The news: Osedea announced on Monday morning that it had acquired Ventriloc for an undisclosed amount,...
BetaKit ·
A group of students at the University of Waterloo broke a world record for their amateur liquid rocket launch. The news: At the 2026 Launch Canada Challenge in Timmins, Ont. last week, the University of Waterloo Rocketry Team—which has...
BetaKit ·
Businesses and IT leaders have a limited understanding of what sovereign AI means or what opportunities it may offer, according to a new study sponsored by Toronto-based AI developer Cohere. The news: The study, performed by analyst...
BetaKit ·
Toronto’s BlackTech Capital (BTC) has officially launched its Catalyst fund, which will back early-stage cleantech companies led by founders who have traditionally been underrepresented in the tech sector. On Wednesday, the firm...
BetaKit ·
Coinb a se Canada ’s new country director and CEO Eric Richmond thinks that Canadian cryptocurrency companies and watchdogs could use more “all-encompassing” regulation. In an interview with BetaKit last month, Richmond noted that...
BetaKit ·
Toronto-based Timia Capital has bolstered its lending capacity by $60 million CAD, giving it the ability to provide larger loans to more business-to-business (B2B) technology companies. The news: Timia provides debt to B2B tech firms...
BetaKit ·
Sometimes, you get what you asked for. Honouring the podcasting ways of old, we put out a call for your burning questions on Canadian tech and tech from a Canadian perspective to produce a summer mailbag episode. Every time I ask you...
BetaKit ·
Brampton-based MDA Space wants to help other Canadian space and defence technology companies scale their solutions with a new venture funding program. The news: The new strategic program is focused on identifying and making equity...
BetaKit ·
Quantum computing firm Xanadu announced today that it is opening an advanced photonics research, development, and manufacturing hub in Toronto with financial support from the Government of Canada. Toronto-based Xanadu has inked a...
BetaKit ·
Toronto is working with Canadian company Clariti to try to speed up its building permit approval process with AI. The news: On Thursday, the City of Toronto launched a new building permit application pre-check service, which uses AI to...
BetaKit ·
A Canadian wildfire-detection startup is buying a US competitor’s business amid disastrous wildfires on both sides of the border. Vancouver-based SenseNet is acquiring the wildfire technology business of US company N5 Sensors, as the...
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