January 24, 2023 Canadian companies still aren’t doing enough to respect the privacy of residents, the federal privacy commissioner said in an interview marking Data Privacy Week. “In our annual report … we saw a number of instances more...
January 24, 2023 The federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) applies to all businesses in Canada except those in B.C., Alberta, and Quebec. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) notes that PIPEDA more...
January 24, 2023 A Canadian-based international manufacturer of die cast tools and car parts has been the victim of a cyber attack. Exco Technologies said Monday that three production facilities within its Large Mould Group are recovering from more...
January 24, 2023 Microsoft says it will implement a new security measure to discourage hackers from using XLL add-ins to distribute malware. Adversaries abusing Microsoft add-ins is a hobby due to its pervasiveness in corporate environments and personal more...
January 24, 2023 Apple has issued an iPhone software update that addresses CVE-2022-42856, a zero-day security vulnerability with a severity rating of 4, that was actively exploited. Attackers can successfully exploit this flaw by tricking their victims into more...
January 23, 2023 Ottawa lawyer Kris Klein advises Canadian organizations on how to set up policies and procedures to comply with federal and provincial data privacy legal obligations. But earlier this month he faced data collection as a more...
January 23, 2023 Here’s a quick primer on Canada’s data privacy laws for commercial firms: The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) applies to firms that collect personally identifiable information, unless there are provincial statutes. Some more...
January 23, 2023 An old US no-fly list found on an unprotected airline server, an ad fraud is scheme is disabled and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday January 23rd, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter more...
January 23, 2023 FanDuel, a popular online sports betting platform, recently experienced a data breach as a result of a third-party vendor who sends transactional emails on behalf of its clients, including FanDuel. MailChimp, a third-party vendor, was 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...
