May 11, 2023 Canada’s privacy commissioner says the government’s proposals to modernize Canada’s federal private sector privacy law are “a step in the right direction,” but must go further to protect fundamental privacy rights. The statement from Privacy more...
May 11, 2023 Zoho Corporation has launched Ulaa, a new web browser focused on privacy and security. Ulaa, meaning 'journey' in Tamil, has been developed to give users control over their personal information and to block unwanted ads, more...
May 9, 2023 Cybersecurity agencies from the Five Eyes intelligence co-operative — including Canada and the U.S. — have disrupted a global peer-to-peer network of computers compromised by the Russian-created Snake malware. In a statement Tuesday, the countries more...
May 8, 2023 Former Uber Technologies chief security officer (CSO) Joseph Sullivan was sentenced to probation Thursday for trying to cover up a 2016 data breach and theft of tens of millions of customer records, the Associated Press more...
May 5, 2023 Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday May 5th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. In more...
May 5, 2023 A Canadian software company says it suffered a cyber attack this week. Toronto-based Constellation Software Inc. said in a statement that on Wednesday it was subject to what it calls a “cyber-security incident that impacted more...
May 4, 2023 Concerned about the potential abuse of artificial intelligence-driven applications, the White House has announced what it calls a Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, with five principles to guide the public and private sector’s more...
May 4, 2023 The Liberal government’s attempt to create a national regime covering the collection of personal information by federal political parties has been dismissed by Canada’s privacy commissioner. The brief proposals to amend the federal Elections Act more...
May 3, 2023 Google has been ordered to pay a Quebec man $500,000 in moral damages for not removing a link in its search engine to an article wrongly alleging he was convicted of a sexual offence. However, more...
May 2, 2023 Organizations allowing guest access to websites they created with Salesforce Community are misconfiguring the capability, letting unauthenticated users see and copy a wider amount of data than visitors should be entitled to. That’s according to more...
