November 2, 2023 The Daixin Team ransomware gang is taking credit for attacks that have hobbled five Southwestern Ontario hospitals that share a service provider. The gang has also started posting what it says are 5.6 million records more...
November 2, 2023 The Daixin Team ransomware gang is taking credit for attacks that have hobbled five Southwestern Ontario hospitals that share a service provider. The gang has also started posting what it says are 5.6 million records more...
November 1, 2023 New legislation limiting the use of facial recognition in Canada is needed according to civil liberties groups, who say proposed privacy and artificial intelligence laws now before Parliament are inadequate. The call by the Right2YourFace more...
November 1, 2023 Leaders of Canadian business associations expressed varying degrees of support for proposed privacy legislation reform before a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. But Jim Balsillie, former co-CEO of Research In Motion (now BlackBerry), told the House more...
October 30, 2023 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 and critical infrastructure sectors. The goal, the White House more...
October 27, 2023 Malware hiding as a cryptominer may have infected 1 million PCs since 2017. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, October 27th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in more...
October 25, 2023 The Trudeau government’s proposed overhaul of the current private sector privacy law has to make it clear to businesses that privacy is a fundamental right they have to respect, a Parliamentary committee was told Tuesday. more...
October 25, 2023 NordVPN, a leading virtual private network (VPN) provider, has conducted a study to find out how long it takes to read the privacy policies of the most visited websites in Canada and around the world. more...
October 24, 2023 Inflation is up for all sorts of products and services, including the cost of a data breach. The median cost of a data breach to an organization this year was US$2.5 million, according to an more...
October 17, 2023 Frustrated opposition MPs came within a whisker on Tuesday of, for a second time, delaying committee hearings on proposed privacy and AI legislation because the government still hasn’t tabled the full wording of proposed amendments. more...
