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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 ...
Three Canadian experts in cybersecurity are skeptical of a claim by a pro-Russian hacktivist that they have breached and damaged the operational technology (OT) network of a Canadian gas pipeline ...
U.S. president Joe Biden today issued an Executive Order establishing new standards for the use of artificial intelligence applications in the U.S. federal government, government-funded programs ...
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 David ...
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 ...
Digital signatures are the building blocks of a digital certificate. Therefore, before learning how digital certificates are managed and issued, it’s best to first learn what digital signatures are.
One of the biggest gold and copper miners in the world is among the latest companies to be listed as victims of the vulnerability in Progress Sofware's MOVEit file transfer platform, according to ...
There's usually a word or phrase that sums up my annual Cybersecurity Year in Review. "Lack of resilience" was 2022's theme, highlighting the Canada-wide outage at Rogers Communications. "A crazy ...
Apple today released emergency patches for a wide range of iPhones and iPads. Users should ensure their devices are running versions 17.0.3 of the operating systems. The update closes two ...
Merriam-Webster defines an influencer as someone who inspires or guides the actions of others, and throughout this year, we have covered a multitude of them on IT World Canada, IT Business ...
A suspected Chinese-based threat actor was in the IT system of Amnesty International Canada for 17 months before being detected, according to the head of the non-profit group. The Canadian branch ...
While 71 per cent of Canadians are knowledgeable about various types of cyber threats, only 24 per cent have credit and identity protection to help them recover from a cyberattack, a new poll on ...