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#ITBprivacy: An ITBusiness.ca Twitter chat

Candice So -
Updated on June 26, 2014, at 2:38pm: We just had a great Twitter chat with outgoing Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian, John Lawford of...

CIRA funds projects with $1M to improve Internet for Canadians

Candice So -
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is funding 28 projects slated to help Canadians get more out of the Internet, funnelling a sum of...

E-commerce and point-of-sales among biggest targets for data breaches

Candice So -
Sensitive, confidential data was hackers’ top target in 2013, alongside credit card and debit card credentials – and two of the worst hot spots...

The cost of a data breach in 2014: $3.5 million, Ponemon study says

Candice So -
2013 was an interesting year in security, with some fairly high-profile data breaches making the news. In December 2013, news broke that U.S. retail...

#EncryptITWC – Recapping an ITWorld Canada.com Twitter chat

Candice So -
Updated by Candice So Apr. 24, 2014 at 4:05pm ET: We ran a Twitter chat on encryption under the @itworldca Twitter account. Read...

Federal privacy office loses drive with personal data

Howard Solomon -
Mistakes can happen in any organization, but when the office of the federal privacy commissioner loses an unencrypted hard drive with personal information, it...

#FollowFriday – The encryption edition

Candice So -
Every Follow Friday, we round up a list of people with active Twitter accounts, ones that we feel are worth a click on the...

RCMP nab suspect in Heartbleed attack on Canada Revenue Agency

Nestor Arellano -
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said Wednesday it arrested a 19-year-old man from London, Ont. who is alleged to have used the Heartbleed...

CRA loses 900 SIN numbers through Heartbleed bug

Candice So -
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has suffered a data breach thanks to the Heartbleed vulnerability, losing about 900 Social Insurance Numbers (SIN) of taxpayers...

Facebook updates user privacy controls

Brian Jackson -
Facebook is rolling out some changes to its privacy controls aimed at simplifying how its users share information with the audiences they want and...

Inform customers of data breach or pay $100,000 per case: new privacy bill

Candice So -
Updated Apr. 8, 2014 at 5:19pm ET by Candice So to include comments from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. Businesses and organizations will be...

Digital Privacy Act will require firms to report data breaches: Moore

Candice So -
In the slew of announcements from the Digital Canada 150 strategy today, measures to protect privacy weren’t forgotten – while details about updates to...

Block hackers by learning the 7-step ‘kill chain’ method

Candice So -
Hackers and cybercriminals are becoming savvier, with the bulk of their attacks now aimed at specific targets, according to a new report from security...

myApollo an antidote to privacy concerns around social media

Candice So -
Facebook may still be one of the world’s top social networks, handling the data of over a billion users worldwide – but for Harvey...

Malware from spying on governments now used in cybercrime, Sophos says

Candice So -
Advanced persistent threats (APTs), once the province of hackers hired to spy on foreign governments and to gather intelligence, are no longer a rarity...
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