Security

Canadian federal financial institutions suffered almost three times as many serious reportable IT incidents in 2023 as in the year before, a parliamentary committee...

Montreal duo launch free cybersecurity training platform

Paul Barker - February 12, 2024

Two childhood friends, both of whom are entrepreneurs based in Montreal, today launched Cyber101, a platform that offers organizations a chance to educate their...

Meta may not bring some products to Canada unless proposed AI law changed, Parliament told

Howard Solomon - February 8, 2024

Officials from four of the biggest tech companies in the world — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta — largely offered polite criticism of the...

Info-Tech report outlines 5 GenAI initiatives CIOs must key in on

Paul Barker - February 7, 2024

As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) continues to reshape the digital landscape, CIOs and IT leaders are at a pivotal point, tasked with navigating the...

China group may have been hiding in IT networks for five years, says Five Eyes warning

Howard Solomon - February 7, 2024

Following recent American warnings of China’s efforts to secretly plant itself on critical infrastructure for future cyber attacks, Canada and other members of Five...

Few infosec pros think higher ed prepared them for their jobs: Survey

Howard Solomon - February 7, 2024

Infosec pros don’t have much respect for the cybersecurity or information security courses offered in colleges and universities, a new survey suggests. Half of the...

Defence department upbraided for not doing PIAs on data extraction tools

Howard Solomon - February 7, 2024

Senior Canadian Defence Department IT officials have been rebuked by an MP for not doing a privacy impact assessment on software that can extract...

More countries to act against misuse of spyware

Howard Solomon - February 6, 2024

Canada, the United States, France and the U.K. are among 25 countries, as well as groups representing nations, vowing today to take action on...

Critical infrastructure cyber law needed ‘more than ever,’ Parliament told

Howard Solomon - February 6, 2024

The Canadian government’s proposed law forcing critical infrastructure providers to toughen their cybersecurity is “needed now more than ever,” an expert told a parliamentary...

Pass Canadian AI law as soon as possible, expert tells Parliament

Howard Solomon - February 5, 2024

A Canadian who is one of the world’s leading thinkers on artificial intelligence says Canada’s proposed AI law needs to be passed as soon...

Tories again cause testimony on proposed cybersecurity bill to be shortened

Howard Solomon - February 2, 2024

For the second meeting in a row, Conservative MPs shortened witnesses’ testimony at committee meetings looking into proposed cybersecurity legislation for overseeing critical infrastructure...

How attractive are our Canadian cities to cybersecurity professionals – and why does it matter?

IT Business Staff - February 1, 2024

Canada was the fifth most targeted country for cyber attacks in the world last year, according to the 2023 Blackberry Threat Report. These attacks...

Warning: Threat actors getting around some Ivanti mitigations

Howard Solomon - January 31, 2024

Cyber authorities in the U.S. and Australia have issued new warnings to IT administrators to take more action to protect Ivanti Connect Secure and...

Industrial firms must pay more attention to OT cybersecurity, says vendor

Howard Solomon - January 31, 2024

American providers of critical infrastructure services still aren’t spending enough to protect their operational technology (OT) systems, says the head of a company that...

Canadian government investigating another hack at Global Affairs

Howard Solomon - January 30, 2024

The Canadian government is investigating what could be a major data breach at its foreign affairs department. CBC News says there is an investigation into...

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