January 22, 2024 In 2023, regulators around the world stiffened or vowed to tighten their data privacy and cybersecurity laws. Expect more of that in 2024. With Data Privacy Week starting today, it’s a development that should worry more...
January 17, 2024 Chrome users may be shocked to find out that Google Chrome's Incognito mode doesn't guaranty that you will not be tracked. The tech giant is updating the mode's warning message, shedding light on a reality more...
January 9, 2024 In a warning that American data brokers need to be careful about selling precise geolocation information of mobile phone users, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has proposed banning a major company from taking advantage of more...
January 5, 2024 Securing archived sensitive data from a data breach is just as important as protecting transactional information, experts say. The latest example of this is an American medical services provider, Transformative Healthcare, that had to notify more...
January 5, 2024 Securing archived sensitive data from a data breach is just as important as protecting transactional information, experts say. The latest example of this is an American medical services provider, Transformative Healthcare, that had to notify more...
January 4, 2024 Healthcare providers covered by Ontario’s privacy law have an extra incentive to follow provincial data protection regulations: They now face administrative fines for serious violations of the provincial law. As of Jan. 1, the Information more...
January 3, 2024 The office of Canadian Senator Amina Gerba has confirmed the Quebec parliamentarian’s account on the X/Twitter social media platform was hacked this week. Senator Amina Gerba Walter Calderon, the Senator’s executive assistant, made the confirmation more...
January 3, 2024 Cybercrooks have increased the number of new or stolen Gold checkmarked accounts from the X/Twitter platform offered for sale; they are a valuable way for threat actors to push links to malware on the social more...
January 2, 2024 A major cybersecurity company is urging governments to forbid all organizations in their countries from paying ransomware gangs, arguing it would at least make crooks shift from hitting critical infrastructure providers such as hospitals, utilities more...
December 29, 2023 There’s usually a word or phrase that sums up my annual Cybersecurity Year in Review. “Lack of resilience” was 2022’s theme, highlighting the Canada-wide outage at Rogers Communications. “A crazy mess” was 2021’s theme, because more...
