May 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 4, 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 4, 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...
May 2, 2023 Personal health information of Canadians stored on the test computer of a third-party supplier to an Ottawa hospital has been stolen in a data breach. Queensway Carleton Hospital said on Saturday the breach of security more...
April 25, 2023 Four independently-owned Canadian Tire affiliate stores in British Columbia that installed facial recognition applications for security broke the province’s privacy law, B.C.’s information and privacy commissioner has ruled. “The investigation showed that the stores did more...
April 25, 2023 Canada should pass the Liberal government’s proposed legislation to regulate artificial intelligence in a few weeks, 75 AI researchers and startups say in an open letter. “We ask our political representatives to strongly and urgently more...
April 18, 2023 An Israel-based commercial spyware company whose iPhone hacking technology is allegedly used by governments to compromise the phones of political opponents and reporters is closing. The news from Israeli media comes after the University of more...
