Canadians need to be educated about the dangers posed by foreign actors utilizing social media to harvest data, a House of Commons committee was told Monday. The standing...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- Cybersecurity and data privacy were the focus of the Canadian Telecom Summit’s second panel of the day, moderated by insurance company Marsh Canada's...
OTTAWA–The government’s cybersecurity legislation, Bill C-26, is...
MISSISSAUGA — Telus Corp.’s vice president...
The federal government Tuesday announced $675,000 in funding for a University of Waterloo-based project...
Canadian organizations pay an average ransom of $458,247 to ransomware...
MISSISSAUGA -- Ontario’s former privacy commissioner hopes the government's proposed privacy bill -- likely to be reintroduced by the Liberal government after Bill C-11 died...
Public Works and Government Services Canada awarded the RCMP’s “national cybercrime solution”...
The not-for-profit organization that manages Canada’s .CA domains says...
The Communications Security Establishment, which is billed as Canada’s...
The CRTC has launched a public consultation into whether a network-level...
The U.K. government has ordered all Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment be removed from the country’s 5G networks by 2027, after initially allowing the Chinese technology giant a limited role in...
In order to make “progress” on the issue of access to encrypted...
The Canadian Anti Fraud Centre has received almost 1000 complaints about fraud attempts related to...
The CRTC has asked for information about the unauthorised porting of...
At a Vancouver press conference Tuesday, the federal and British Columbia privacy commissioners presented the results of their investigation into AggregateIQ (AIQ) as an example of how investigations into companies can go — correctly — when commissioners have proper...
OTTAWA — New Public Safety Minister Bill Blair indicated Wednesday he is...
Rogers Communications Inc. and the University of British Columbia said they have powered the first fully-functional 5G “smart campus” to test applications for the next-generation network. The campus includes 5G towers and...
The Canadian chapter of the Internet Society (ISCC) is looking to embark on...
Even before the federal election campaign officially kicked off, telecom...
Telus Corp. told the federal government that prohibiting Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s equipment from next-generation networks would significantly delay the deployment of...
OTTAWA — With the federal government’s decision on whether to ban...
The Liberal government plans to have the CRTC be the body in charge of developing and then enforcing telecom regulation related to future cybersecurity laws, according to a memo for Heritage Minister...
Juniper Research is projecting over five billion people will have some form of digital ID by 2024, as the Canadian government seeks information on how it can meet its own goals for the emerging...
Artificial intelligence technology allowing videos to be seamlessly...
Health Canada has published new guidance on cybersecurity standards for...
The public safety and national security committee of the House of Commons has recommended that the federal government look at ways to make sure that Canadian data stays on Canadian soil. The...
The National Research Council of Canada and the University of Waterloo announced on Monday they will create a new “collaboration hub,” aimed at conducting research on a host of fields related to...
Twitter Inc. has added a timely subject matter to its lobby files: educating federal officials on social media use during elections. The social media company updated its files last week to include...
OTTAWA — It is now “very likely” that Canadians will face some form of cyber foreign interference, but it is “improbable” it will be on the scale of the 2016 United...
In the lead-up to a meeting with Amazon.com Inc., the government was...
Amid security reviews of Canada’s 5G infrastructure lays an...
OTTAWA — The Liberal government is announcing $1.7 billion in new rural...
Nearly a hundred emails for members of parliament — among them eight...
Despite heightened interest in the impact of social media on Canadian elections, Facebook Inc. said it has not heard of any Canadian institutions that have applied to view the social media giant’s data sets. Facebook has been embroiled in controversy over its data practices. Last year, it partnered with a commission of senior academics, known collectively as Social Science One, to share its data sets with the goal of studying the role of social media in elections and democracy. But in...
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says compensation to...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has updated its lobby files to include discussions on 5G deployment...
A majority of Canadian internet users say the federal government should impose fines or other sanctions on social media companies that don’t remove fake news from their platforms, according to...
The head of Telus Corp. says the company would be able to “adeptly”...
If the Canadian government eventually decides to ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from Canada’s 5G networks, the financial consequences suffered by Canada’s big telecom...
OTTAWA — Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People's Party of Canada and...
OTTAWA — The Liberal government has set up a new alert protocol and...
The federal government will give Nokia Corp. up to $40 million for a number of the company’s projects...
Iristel Inc. is becoming a provider of cybersecurity services, the company said in a press release Thursday. Its new cybersecurity unit will provide services like “consulting, advisory, 24/7/365 monitoring, incident response, vulnerability assessments, penetration...
Roughly half of Canadians support banning Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd from Canada’s 5G networks but more than a quarter have yet to make up their minds on the issue, according to a Globe and Mail/Nanos Research poll. Eighteen...
OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee is unanimously calling for new rules for social media companies...
The Opposition Conservatives are re-upping calls for a ban on Huawei...
OTTAWA — Efforts to stanch online misinformation campaigns will not eliminate the very real situation that may see Canadians fall victim to attempts to influence their political opinions, the...
The Canadian Security Establishment (CSE) says it has worked with 31 Canadian wireless providers “to help mitigate the risk of cyber espionage and network disruption through the exploitation of supply chain vulnerabilities in the current 3G/4G/LTE environment.” It said in a new fact sheet posted to its website that those 31 telecoms represent “over 99% of the Canadian mobile market.” “Annual evaluations of [telecom providers’] architectures have shown year-over-year...
OTTAWA — Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy told an industry...
The federal government should appoint a minister of cybersecurity, the Senate banking committee said in a...
Despite increasing cyber security risks, over a quarter of surveyed individuals at Canadian businesses over the past year and a half have not instituted anti-malware protection, while a sizeable chunk...
Members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee are prodding the Canadian government to block Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd from Canada’s next generation network infrastructure, warning it might...
Seventeen of 34 government departments are “non-compliant” with private sector payment card industry standards they are required to follow to prevent data breaches and fraud, according to a June...
The federal government launched the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, the governing body intended to...
Almost 50 million Facebook user accounts have been affected after hackers...
OTTAWA -- Canada’s cyber spy agency is set to soon announce details on its new centralized cybersecurity centre, according to Communications Security Establishment (CSE) officials. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security,...
OTTAWA -- Officials from Canada’s cyber-spy agency defended the security of Canada’s telecommunications systems and allowing Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd equipment to operate on them, as MPs pressed whether Canada should follow other Five Eyes allies and restrict the Chinese company’s technology. Communications Security Establishment (CSE) officials insisted Thursday afternoon that taking a "holistic" approach to ensuring security across “heterogeneous networks” is more important than the particular devices vendors are selling, comments that come amid an emerging political...
The federal government has quietly been testing the security of communications equipment used by Chinese-owned telecommunications company Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., The Globe and Mail reported...
Canada and its Five Eyes counterparts have issued a warning to communications and technology companies that if governments continue to face difficult hurdles to lawful access to data created by encryption without private sector...
To bolster Canada’s democratic defences before the next election,...
In the three years since the last Canadian federal election, emerging...
The federal government announced over $2 million in funding for a number of cybersecurity and connected car initiatives in press releases Friday. Victoria-based Hyas Infosec Inc. will get $475,000 from the Western Innovation Initiative (WINN), which provides repayable contributions for small and medium businesses in western Canada. The money will go toward commercializing its cybersecurity monitoring platform, called Saltspring, which the government said would “provide real-time visibility into attacks and breaches across global networks.” The release said the platform “will help...
Over 146 billion records worldwide are expected to be exposed through criminal data breaches over the next six years, a new report from Juniper Research suggests. That constitutes a 22.5 per cent...
After the British Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found that Facebook Inc. had “security...
To overcome a shortage of cybersecurity experts, Canadian companies should hire people with broad knowledge bases rather than specific technical skill-sets, according to a report by Deloitte Touche...
Twitter Inc. wants to make sure the government understands how online...
Just over a quarter of Canadians surveyed by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) said they don’t know how much broadband data they have, a concern a CIRA spokeswoman said could be...
Thousands of Canadians have signed separate petitions created by Democracy Watch, with one calling for a strengthening of the elections law body that could compel media sites to remove false ads....
TORONTO — A security executive at Telus Corp. told an industry conference...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) said its 2017 survey of Canadian businesses revealed that small businesses are less likely to have considered necessary privacy responsibilities than larger entities. The...
OTTAWA — Whistleblower and data scientist Christopher Wylie testified at the House ethics committee Tuesday, continuing to allege that data companies acted improperly in...
The federal and Quebec governments are putting roughly half a million dollars into a cybersecurity...
As stories about security and personal data breaches make the headlines,...
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner told the House of Commons ethics...
OTTAWA — So-called Sybil attacks are a significant potential...
Facebook Inc. announced a series of new measures to harden the platform against misinformation Thursday, saying it has needed to ban a Macedonia-based ring spreading fake news during the late 2017 Alabama senate race, and will now start fact-checking photos and video, according to a transcript of a press event published by the social media company on Thursday. That followed earlier announcements about other changes the company is making that appeared to do little to dampen some Canadian parliamentarians’ plans to investigate recent controversies involving the platforms. “Rather than...
OTTAWA — Members of the federal NDP introduced a sweeping motion...
A decades-old organization that is pushing for a multilateral approach to decision-making on the future...
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. and Carleton University have signed a memorandum of...
There is high awareness of cyber threats among businesses with .ca registrations, but a sizeable sum of small and large organizations surveyed by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)...
OTTAWA — Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan couldn’t tell MPs or reporters...
OTTAWA — Revelations over the weekend that Facebook Inc. data was used...
Default accounts on hospital systems using free software contributed to a significant increase in publicly-reported security incidents at medical centres around the world, a new report from computer...
The issue of whether a Chinese telecom equipment maker poses a security threat by operating in Canada is...
Microchip producer Broadcom Ltd.’s proposed takeover of chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. was blocked Monday via an executive order by United States president Donald Trump. The order referred to “credible evidence” that led Trump to believe that Broadcom, through the acquisition, “might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States.” It ordered the two parties to “immediately and permanently abandon” the proposal. The news is the latest salvo...
Researchers at American universities have found a number of security vulnerabilities on the 4G LTE network, which could expose citizens to tracking, impersonation and fake text messages. The paper, which was presented at a...
OTTAWA — Experts praised the idea of stricter standards for imported...
As the federal government announced schemes to bolster Canadian...
OTTAWA — The 2018 federal budget, released Tuesday afternoon, includes...
The CRTC is encouraging emergency operators to harden next generation 911 (NG911) services from cyber attacks like malware and ransomware, as it said Friday it supports the recommendations of a report warning that the new 911 system will be more vulnerable to threats. In...
Only 45 per cent of cybersecurity alerts are investigated in Canada, according to Cisco Systems Inc.’s 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report. That puts Canada in second-lowest place behind China in a list of 17 countries and...
OTTAWA — The Canadian Security Establishment (CSE) could inadvertently be...
Japanese cyber security company Trend Micro Inc. and Telus Corp. have...
In a blog post on Wednesday, Alphabet Inc.’s ‘moonshot factory’ X announced the details of its...
Within the last year, 10.14 million Canadians were affected by cybercrime,...
In a statement on Tuesday, the same day that BCE Inc. reported a breach affecting up to 100,000 customers, the New Democratic Party’s (NDP) Public Safety Critic Matthew Dubé said that expecting...
BCE Inc. has reported a second data breach in less than twelve months,...
The federal government said Friday it is “experimenting” with blockchain technology to create a...
Canada’s security agency is aware of the push for stronger encryption by privacy groups and industry, but some technology, including the Internet of Things (IoT), might end up with less reliable forms of the security tool, a top secret government document found....