January 24, 2023 The U.S. Justice Department and eight U.S. states are suing Google for allegedly monopolizing online advertising. The complaint, filed Tuesday in Virginia, alleges that Google monopolizes key digital advertising technologies, collectively referred to as the more...
January 23, 2023 A Swiss hacker known as "maia arson crimew" discovered an unprotected server maintained by a U.S. national airline that contained the personal information of hundreds of thousands of people on the federal "No Fly List" more...
January 16, 2023 The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) invested a whopping $15 million on Oracle software over the last five years, per an audit report, because it did lack a centralized software asset management practice. more...
January 11, 2023 The economic secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Griffith has confirmed that the U.K. government is considering introducing a national cryptocurrency or "digital pound." Griffith told the Treasury Select Committee that a public consultation on the more...
December 11, 2022 Twelve months after police charged two men with compromising Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine management system, the province has identified and started notifying the 360,000 residents whose personal data was copied. The Canadian Press reports the government more...
December 8, 2022 Canadian municipalities and school boards facing financial constraints can still do a lot, short of overhauling their infrastructure, to boost their cybersecurity, a Technicity West panel on cybersecurity in the public sector was told this more...
November 28, 2022 The United States, through the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), banned the import and sale of new telecommunications equipment from Huawei, ZTE, Hytera Communications, Hikvision, and Dahua on Friday, citing national security concerns. The Commission also more...
November 22, 2022 Ottawa’s second attempt at overhauling federal legislation regulating how businesses collect and use personal data of Canadians still favours the private-sector, says a leading technology and human rights group. The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab more...
November 21, 2022 Canada's Public Safety Minister, Marco Mendicino, stated that the country intends to host a meeting of G7 representatives next year to develop new programs and tools to combat disinformation. A summit in Canada would serve more...
November 16, 2022 The poor state of cybersecurity of some of Ontario’s school boards, child welfare agencies, municipalities, and hospitals worries the head of the province’s expert panel that just evaluated the condition of the broader public sector. more...
