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Security priorities for 2024: Skills development, AI and more, says report

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Developing and optimizing cybersecurity staff has been listed by a research firm as the top security priority for organizations over the next 12 months...

Ransomware gang claims it hit Canadian oil pipeline operator

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The AlphV ransomware gang claims it has hit Canadian oil transmission operator Trans-Northern Pipeline, which operates pipelines in three provinces. Brett Callow, a B.C.-based threat...

Warning: Phishing campaign aimed at senior executives

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Accounts of hundreds of Microsoft Office and Azure user accounts — including those of senior executives — have been compromised recently in ongoing targeted...

Serious IT incidents in Canadian financial sector almost tripled in 2023

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Canadian federal financial institutions suffered almost three times as many serious reportable IT incidents in 2023 as in the year before, a parliamentary committee...

Montreal duo launch free cybersecurity training platform

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Two childhood friends, both of whom are entrepreneurs based in Montreal, today launched Cyber101, a platform that offers organizations a chance to educate their...

Meta may not bring some products to Canada unless proposed AI law changed, Parliament told

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Officials from four of the biggest tech companies in the world — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta — largely offered polite criticism of the...

Info-Tech report outlines 5 GenAI initiatives CIOs must key in on

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As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) continues to reshape the digital landscape, CIOs and IT leaders are at a pivotal point, tasked with navigating the...

China group may have been hiding in IT networks for five years, says Five Eyes warning

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Following recent American warnings of China’s efforts to secretly plant itself on critical infrastructure for future cyber attacks, Canada and other members of Five...

Few infosec pros think higher ed prepared them for their jobs: Survey

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Infosec pros don’t have much respect for the cybersecurity or information security courses offered in colleges and universities, a new survey suggests. Half of the...

Defence department upbraided for not doing PIAs on data extraction tools

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Senior Canadian Defence Department IT officials have been rebuked by an MP for not doing a privacy impact assessment on software that can extract...

More countries to act against misuse of spyware

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Canada, the United States, France and the U.K. are among 25 countries, as well as groups representing nations, vowing today to take action on...

Critical infrastructure cyber law needed ‘more than ever,’ Parliament told

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The Canadian government’s proposed law forcing critical infrastructure providers to toughen their cybersecurity is “needed now more than ever,” an expert told a parliamentary...

Pass Canadian AI law as soon as possible, expert tells Parliament

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A Canadian who is one of the world’s leading thinkers on artificial intelligence says Canada’s proposed AI law needs to be passed as soon...

Tories again cause testimony on proposed cybersecurity bill to be shortened

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For the second meeting in a row, Conservative MPs shortened witnesses’ testimony at committee meetings looking into proposed cybersecurity legislation for overseeing critical infrastructure...

How attractive are our Canadian cities to cybersecurity professionals – and why does it matter?

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Canada was the fifth most targeted country for cyber attacks in the world last year, according to the 2023 Blackberry Threat Report. These attacks...
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