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Identity-based attacks increasing, warns CrowdStrike

Successful identity-based attacks continue to plague IT departments, according to CrowdStrike’s sixth annual Threat Hunting report. Based on an analysis of what they call interactive...

Many organizations want to limit employee access to AI, survey shows

A large number of organizations are considering or implementing bans on employee use of ChatGPT and other generative AI applications over security, privacy and...

Hinton vs. Murdoch: A tale of two AIs

At Collision 2023, held in Toronto in late June, there was much discussion about artificial intelligence (AI) and more specifically the ChatGPT chatbot, but...

Employee banking information stolen from Tennis Canada in cyber incident: Report

Tennis Canada, a non-profit that oversees professional events and junior training programs, has acknowledged being hit by a cyber event in June resulting in...

Interconnected approach between citizens, governments and businesses needed to drive digital identity adoption: ATB Ventures

With 8 in 10 Canadians already in support of digital identity, and the threat of cyberattacks on a meteoric rise, now is the time...

Canadian security expert applauds new White House initiative

David Shipley, co-founder and CEO of Fredericton, N.B.-based Beauceron Security, today described a new strategy announced this week by the Biden administration as something...

Data of about 26,000 patients may have been copied from Toronto hospital group

Personal information of some 26,000 patients at one of the country’s biggest hospital groups may have been copied by an attacker in June. Toronto’s University...

ITWC’s 2023 Top Women in Cybersecurity: An interview with Susan Chiang of Cloudflare

Experts regularly insist that diversity — be it in age, colour, ethnicity or other categories — helps make an organization vigorous. An example is Susan...

Top Women in Cybersecurity panel offers career advice

A professional singer, a mother, and an association administrator are the backgrounds of five of the honorees for this year’s IT World Canada Top...

Deepfakes fueling the online anarchy: researchers weigh in on the complexities of regulation

From U.S. President Joe Biden spewing transphobic discourse, the Pentagon in flames, and Donald Trump resisting arrest to the Pope ennobling the puffer jacket...

Top Women in Cybersecurity keynote: A cybersecurity career is harder than ChatGPT paints it — but just as rewarding

ChatGPT is good for a lot of things, but don’t ask it to create a realistic scenario for a woman who wants a career...

Google, Microsoft form group to create best practices for emerging AI models

Another industry group has emerged promising to promote best practices for artificial intelligence applications at a time when governments around the world are looking...

First Canadian class action suit filed in GoAnywhere MFT hacks

Several proposed class action lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. stemming from the exploitation and data thefts in January from a vulnerability in...

IT coalition promises to improve patching, network visibility

Some of the biggest names in IT and service providers including AT&T, Cisco Systems, Fortinet, VMware and Intel today launched an industry group promising...

Cost of data breaches continues to go in wrong direction: IBM

The average cost of a data breach continues to grow, according to IBM’s annual survey of 16 countries and regions during a recent 12...

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