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Nearly 1 million Windows devices were targeted in recent months by a sophisticated "malvertising" campaign that surreptitiously stole login credentials, cryptocurrency, and other sensitive information from infected machines, Microsoft said.

The campaign began in December, when the attackers, who remain unknown, seeded websites with links that downloaded ads from malicious servers. The links led targeted machines through several intermediary sites until finally arriving at repositories on Microsoft-owned GitHub, which hosted a raft of malicious files.

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Tens of thousands of tax accounts have been hacked and hundreds of millions of dollars lost as criminals steal identities and file bogus returns. Could the CRA’s deals with tax companies be partly to blame?

• 00:00 - Victims of identify theft speak out

• 11:27 - Hunting for fraudsters who hacked into a B.C. man's account

• 25:03 - How secure are your tax accounts?

• 35:05 - CRA insiders break their silence

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGo6d4Iswg4/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39864162

FreshRSS is a selfhosted RSS feed management tool

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In this release, we have restarted to focus on features. A long-awaited feature has been added, namely sorting articles by various criteria: received date (existing, default), publication date, title, link, random.

A few highlights ✨:

• Add order-by options to sort articles by received date (existing, default), publication date, title, link, random
• Allow searching in all feeds, also feeds only visible at category level with &get=A, and also those archived with &get=Z
• UI accessible from user-query view
• New shortcuts for adding user labels to articles
• Several improvements and bug fixes

Full release details in linked post

Excerpt:

Nunavut has the highest rate of child poverty and the highest rate of food insecurity of any Canadian province or territory. In 2022, around 80 per cent of Indigenous children aged between one and 14 in Nunavut lived in households experiencing food insecurity. In 2018, the rate of childhood food insecurity in Nunavut was almost six times higher than in Canada as a whole.

The Hamlet Food Voucher Program, funded through the Inuit Child First Initiative (ICFI), has recently offered some relief. This program gives families funds for groceries to meet the nutritional needs of Inuit children.

However, ICFI funding only runs until March 31, 2025. With Parliament prorogued, plans for further funding remain uncertain. That means starting April 1, many Inuit children in Nunavut may again go hungry. The Canadian government can make sure that does not happen by extending funding for ICFI and the food voucher program.

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Authors:

• Vandna Sinha | Adjunct Professor of Social Work, McGIll University & Associate Research Professor of Education, University of Colorado, Boulder, McGill University
• David Wheatley | Assistant Professor in Operations & Decision Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University
• Jessica Penney | Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan University
• Nicholas Li | Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Toronto Metropolitan University

It's brief, around 25:15

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo

If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them :)

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/116560