Mathey Technology And Engineering

“Denial is not a river in Egypt”

 We start this week’s summary with a famous quote from Mark Twain, and our theme is “denial.”

We know that the majority of companies have experienced some form of ransomware attack. According to a Telus survey published in 2022, “cyber-attacks are on the rise in Canada, with 98 per cent of Canadian organizations reporting a cyberattack in the last 12 months.”

Who do we trust when attackers claim to have had a successful ransomware attack, but the company denies that the attack was successful?

This week, two major companies both issued denials in the face of ransomware gangs claiming they have successfully attacked the company, and who post evidence of stolen data to prove their claim?

Walmart denies attack by Yanluowang gang

Walmart has denied being attacked with ransomware by the Yanluowang gang, although the gang claimed to have encrypted thousands of computers.

Columbia University will not submit information to U.S. Information & Environment Report for the following edition of its college rankings, the provost introduced on Thursday, citing an active institutional overview prompted by allegations that the university experienced delivered untrue data to the magazine.

Columbia was tied for second — with Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Engineering — in the 2022 edition of the countrywide-college rankings.

Michael Thaddeus, a professor of mathematics at Columbia, this year accused the college of distributing inaccurate details to U.S. News. Colleges self-report quite a few knowledge factors to the magazine.

Thaddeus posted a prolonged investigation on his faculty webpage, comparing Columbia’s info on the U.S. Information site, upon which the rankings are dependent, with figures he pulled from the university’s online directories of courses and college users. He advised The Chronicle that he identified discrepancies in the U.S. News facts on