Wave of Cyberattacks Target Government Websites in Canada

Wave of Cyberattacks Target Government Websites in Canada
A computer keyboard lit by a displayed cyber code in an illustration photo taken on March 1, 2017. Kacper Pempel/Reuters
Andrew Chen
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Government websites in Canada have been hit by a rash of cyberattacks recently, with the latest one prompting several federal and provincial government agencies to shut down their systems.

On Dec. 10, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security issued an alert about a “critical vulnerability” in Apache Log4j—a widely used logging software—which would allow an unauthorized actor to hack and access an affected device remotely.