Adobe tackles two critical bugs in Acrobat and Reader update

Canada had its various government agencies and financial and transportation industries subjected to distributed denial-of-service attacks by pro-Russian cybercrime operation NoName057(16), according to SecurityWeek.

A hearing ostensibly focused on CISA's CDM and EINSTEIN cybersecurity programs took a detour as witnesses strongly warned Congress that a shutdown could imperil federal cybersecurity efforts.

TechCrunch reports that major payments technology platform Square disclosed that a daylong outage it suffered late last week was prompted by a DNS error and not by a cyberattack. "While making several standard changes to our internal network software, the combination of updates prevented our systems from properly communicating with each other, and ultimately caused the disruption."