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The end of 2019 marked the end of a decade that has been marked by rapid technological development, advancing data-use research, and an increasingly hyper-connective global infrastructure.
The Desjardins Group, North America's largest credit union federation, experienced a data breach exposing private data of 2.7 people. Credit: CP/Lee Brown Canada’s largest financial services ...
Android malware is one of the most serious threats on the internet and has witnessed an unprecedented upsurge in recent years. There is a need to share the fundamental understanding of behaviour ...
The rapid growth of encryption technology has revolutionized the online marketplace and helped to enable the creation of anonymous online networks, like the Dark Net — a hidden forum for which ...
In this article, we will venture into the realm of Canadian cybersecurity laws as they relate to interpersonal privacy, data breaches, network attacks, and other computer-related activities of a ...
No one likes malicious botnets, but Canada’s telecom regulator has found no industry support around its suggestion that carriers and internet providers be part of a mandatory network-based ...
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 ...
Canada is home to a rising 1.6 million Indigenous people and over 600 Indigenous communities. Systemic discrimination, including historically oppressive government legislation and deep-seeded ...
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. From Toronto, this is the Week in Review edition for the period ending Friday, May 6th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ...
High productivity is masking exhausted workforces globally, and the situation is worse in Canada, according to Microsoft’s annual Work Trend Index. The latest check-in with more than 31,000 ...
On July 28, people from all over Canada joined IT World Canada online to celebrate the top women in Canadian cybersecurity as identified by their peers. The second annual Top Women in ...
New reports from FireEye and Microsoft add more depth to the ongoing investigation into the compromise by a threat actor of the SolarWinds Orion security update system and intrusions into Orion ...