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Forty-eight countries, including Canada and the U.S., have agreed their governments shouldn’t give in to ransomware demands. The promise came Wednesday at the end of the third annual meeting in ...
The shared services model adopted by governments and non-profits has many advantages, including efficiency and economies of scale. However, a cyber attack on a firm that provides shared IT ...
Making cybersecurity predictions is easy (“Cybercriminals will become more inventive”). Making actionable ones for IT security leaders is much harder. We’ve assembled what we hope is a ...
This is the Year in Review podcast for 2022. I’m Howard Solomon contributing reporter on cybersecurity for IT World Canada.com. With me are Terry Cutler, head of Cyology Labs in Montreal and ...
Amazon Canada is celebrating the opening of its newest robotics facility, YOW3, in Barrhaven, Ontario. YOW3 is the only facility of its kind in Canada and is one of five globally. It aims to ...
A social engineering technique called “MFA fatigue,” also known as “MFA push spam,” is gaining traction as attackers use the technique to bypass multi-factor authentication checks. An MFA ...
AdGuard, a developer of ad blocking software, has unveiled a new ad blocking extension that meets Google’s Manifest 3 requirements. According to the provider offering the new AdGuard extension ...
The average cost of a data breach is still going up, according to a new survey. The 25 Canadian companies that suffered a breach in the 12-month period ending in March paid an average of $7 ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already being used as an explanation to avoid accountability. In the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson tried to blame a ‘mutant algorithm‘ for exam chaos.
When a crime takes place or a dispute occurs between two parties who reside within the same geographic location, the determination of which law applies to that scenario is easily distinguished as ...
Ritvik Goyal, a 13-year-old student from Scarborough, ON., has won first place in the TCS April 2022 goIT Monthly Challenge for creating a sustainability app called E-Recycle that equips people ...