TAGGED AS CYBERSECURITY
Telecoms and broadcasters hit by CrowdStrike IT outage
Internet and Governance | 07/19/2024 12:04 pm EDT
Canadian broadcasters and telecoms reported experiencing mixed effects from a global outage on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows platforms Friday morning.
Third-party cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said it issued a faulty software update, causing blue screens worldwide for...
CRTC lacking in battle against cybercrime: Auditor General
Internet and Governance | 06/04/2024 6:28 pm EDT
The Office of the Auditor General of Canada released a report Tuesday that found various agencies including the CRTC are falling down on the job when it comes to fighting cybercrime. The 35-page report, entitled Combatting Cybercrime, found breakdowns in response,...
Education key to combating foreign interference on social media, ETHI hears
Internet and Governance | 11/21/2023 5:12 pm EST
Canadians need to be educated about the dangers posed by foreign actors...
Educating Canadians is key to address cybersecurity threats: CTS panel
Internet and Governance | 11/06/2023 6:32 pm EST
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- Cybersecurity and data privacy were the focus of the...
Cybersecurity is national security, panelists tell IIC
Internet and Governance | 05/16/2023 11:54 am EDT
OTTAWA–The government’s cybersecurity legislation, Bill C-26, is...
Regulating TSPs, not suppliers, in cybersecurity bill will be ineffective: Telus exec
telecom | 11/22/2022 3:55 pm EST
MISSISSAUGA — Telus Corp.’s vice president...
Feds give $675k for UWaterloo cybersecurity project
telecom | 08/16/2022 5:03 pm EDT
The federal government Tuesday announced $675,000 in funding for a University of Waterloo-based project aimed at shoring up cybersecurity in quantum computing.
The project, called Laying the Foundations for a Quantum-Safe Canada, aims to raise "awareness and preparation...
Canadian organizations paying more than $450,000 in ransomware attacks: study
telecom | 12/08/2021 4:54 pm EST
Canadian organizations pay an average ransom of $458,247 to ransomware...
CTS panelists hope privacy bill, C-11, ‘dies quickly,’ say Canada is losing ‘military edge’ in digital age
telecom | 11/15/2021 9:07 pm EST
MISSISSAUGA -- Ontario’s former privacy...
RCMP awards National Cybercrime Solution contract
Media | 10/25/2021 4:18 pm EDT
Public Works and Government Services Canada awarded the RCMP’s “national cybercrime solution”...
Update to National Cyber Security Plan needed to combat ransomware attacks: CIRA
Media | 10/04/2021 5:49 pm EDT
The not-for-profit organization that manages Canada’s .CA domains says...
Public Health Agency among most targeted for cyber threats: CSE
telecom | 06/28/2021 6:24 pm EDT
The Communications Security Establishment, which is billed as Canada’s...
CRTC proposes requiring ISPs to block malicious botnet traffic
telecom | 01/14/2021 3:43 pm EST
The CRTC has launched a public consultation into whether a network-level...
Huawei gear must be gone from U.K.’s 5G networks by 2027
telecom | 07/14/2020 4:20 pm EDT
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...
‘Public outreach’ needed for ‘progress’ on encryption backdoors: gov’t doc
telecom | 05/26/2020 11:42 am EDT
In order to make “progress” on the issue of access to encrypted...
Fraudsters cashing in on pandemic, committee told
telecom | 05/20/2020 8:05 pm EDT
The Canadian Anti Fraud Centre has received almost 1000 complaints about fraud attempts related to COVID-19 since the beginning of March, the RCMP’s assistant commissioner of federal policing criminal operations Eric Slinn told a Parliamentary committee Wednesday....
CRTC asks for plan to combat unauthorised phone porting
telecom | 01/21/2020 1:06 pm EST
The CRTC has asked for information about the unauthorised porting of...
AIQ investigation shows need for strong privacy laws, OPC says
Media | 11/26/2019 6:22 pm EST
At a Vancouver press conference Tuesday, the federal and British Columbia...
Blair says ‘no timeline’ on Huawei ban; Bains promises ‘more’ on prices
Media | 11/20/2019 1:51 pm EST
OTTAWA — New Public Safety Minister Bill Blair indicated Wednesday he is...
Rogers and UBC turn on 5G research campus
telecom | 11/05/2019 5:01 pm EST
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...
Internet Society lobbies on project to get ahead of IoT vulnerabilities
telecom | 10/17/2019 5:33 pm EDT
The Canadian chapter of the Internet Society (ISCC) is looking to embark on a broad scale project involving foreign and local governments, civil society and industry to tackle...
Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei ban
Media | 09/10/2019 12:03 pm EDT
Even before the federal election campaign officially kicked off, telecom...
Telus warned gov’t of Huawei ban’s ‘far-reaching impacts’: secret docs
telecom | 08/27/2019 3:18 pm EDT
Telus Corp. told the federal government that prohibiting Huawei...
Any gov’t ban unlikely to affect Huawei partnership: Iristel
telecom | 07/22/2019 6:04 pm EDT
OTTAWA — With the federal government’s decision on whether to ban...
CRTC to lead future telecom cybersecurity rules: gov’t document
telecom | 07/22/2019 1:23 pm EDT
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...
Over 5 billion to have digital ID globally by 2024: Juniper
telecom | 07/10/2019 5:08 pm EDT
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...
‘Deepfakes’ could trigger election security alert, gov’t officials say
Media | 07/09/2019 4:50 pm EDT
Artificial intelligence technology allowing videos to be seamlessly...
Health Canada issues cybersecurity guidance for medical devices
Media | 06/27/2019 1:15 pm EDT
Health Canada has published new guidance on cybersecurity standards for...
Stop routing Canadian data through the U.S.: Security committee
telecom | 06/21/2019 5:06 pm EDT
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...
UoW, NRC establish research centre for AI, IoT, cybersecurity
telecom | 06/18/2019 5:27 pm EDT
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 artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and the Internet of Things. The Waterloo research centre “will lead to discoveries and advances including publications, patents, and the commercialization of technology, and will provide training opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows,” they said in a press release. Work on the project began in earnest “a little over a year...
Twitter registers social media education on lobby files
Media | 04/15/2019 4:05 pm EDT
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...
Interference related to 2019 election ‘very likely’: CSE
Media | 04/08/2019 10:01 am EDT
OTTAWA — It is now “very likely” that Canadians will face some form...
Gov’t criticized by tech companies on cloud strategy for sensitive data
telecom | 04/03/2019 1:17 pm EDT
In the lead-up to a meeting with Amazon.com Inc., the government was...
Gov’t should encourage Canadian 5G equipment: Public Safety notes
telecom | 04/01/2019 3:49 pm EDT
Amid security reviews of Canada’s 5G infrastructure lays an...
All Canadian households will have 50/10 speeds by 2030: Morneau
Media | 03/19/2019 4:03 pm EDT
OTTAWA — The Liberal government is announcing $1.7 billion in new rural broadband funding over the next 13 years, aimed at closing the speed gap between rural and urban Canada.
It's part of an overall rural broadband plan announced in the Trudeau government's final...
Dozens of MP’s online accounts appeared in data breaches
Media | 03/18/2019 5:41 pm EDT
Nearly a hundred emails for members of parliament — among them eight...
Facebook ‘not aware’ of Canadian applicants for data research program
Media | 03/01/2019 1:41 pm EST
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...
Goodale hasn’t heard talk about telco compensation in event of Huawei ban
telecom | 02/25/2019 5:24 pm EST
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says compensation to...
Samsung to lobby on 5G ahead of Huawei decision
telecom | 02/19/2019 5:53 pm EST
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has updated its lobby files to include discussions on 5G deployment...
Majority supports fining social media for not removing fake news: CIRA poll
Media | 02/19/2019 4:50 pm EST
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...
Telus says it can manage a Huawei 5G ban after warning of costs, delay
telecom | 02/14/2019 10:58 am EST
The head of Telus Corp. says the company would be able to “adeptly”...
Financial hit of a Huawei 5G ban likely ‘non-material’ to Bell, Telus: Desjardins
telecom | 02/12/2019 4:18 pm EST
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...
Maxime Bernier supports Huawei 5G ban ‘as soon as possible’
telecom | 02/06/2019 5:34 pm EST
OTTAWA — Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People's Party of Canada and...
Ottawa taps team to warn of foreign digital interference in elections
Media | 01/30/2019 3:49 pm EST
OTTAWA — The Liberal government has set up a new alert protocol and created a crack-team of top bureaucrats that can warn political parties and the public during an election...
Canada investing $40M in Nokia partnership
telecom | 01/25/2019 1:56 pm EST
The federal government will give Nokia Corp. up to $40 million for a number of the company’s projects...
Iristel getting into cybersecurity
Media | 01/18/2019 1:08 pm EST
Iristel Inc. is becoming a provider of cybersecurity services, the company said in a press release...
Most Canadians would support a Huawei 5G ban: poll
telecom | 01/09/2019 3:03 pm EST
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...
Ethics committee calls for new social media rules
Media | 12/11/2018 7:27 pm EST
OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee is unanimously calling for new rules for social media companies...
Huawei CFO’s arrest renews political criticisms about 5G access
telecom | 12/06/2018 6:51 pm EST
The Opposition Conservatives are re-upping calls for a ban on Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.'s participation in the buildout of Canada's 5G networks, following news that Canada...
Election 2019 still ripe for opinion-shaping, CSE says
Media | 12/06/2018 3:46 pm EST
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...
CSE has worked with nearly all wireless providers on cybersecurity
telecom | 11/02/2018 5:15 pm EDT
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...
Artificial intelligence tests yielding promising results: Corus CEO
Media | 11/02/2018 12:09 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy told an industry...
Create cybersecurity ministry: senate committee
telecom | 10/29/2018 4:37 pm EDT
The federal government should appoint a minister of cybersecurity, the Senate banking committee said in a...
Over a quarter of businesses don’t use anti-malware protection: reports
telecom | 10/15/2018 5:14 pm EDT
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...
U.S. senators warn Trudeau against Huawei involvement in 5G
telecom | 10/12/2018 1:02 pm EDT
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...
Blais flagged gov’t non-compliance with payment card security standard
telecom | 10/05/2018 5:07 pm EDT
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...
Government formally launches cybersecurity centre
telecom | 10/01/2018 3:47 pm EDT
The federal government launched the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, the governing body intended to...
Facebook warns of massive security breach, affecting 50M accounts
telecom | 09/28/2018 5:10 pm EDT
Almost 50 million Facebook user accounts have been affected after hackers tried to exploit a vulnerability in a Facebook Inc. website feature, the social media giant announced...
CSE cybersecurity centre to launch within two weeks
telecom | 09/21/2018 2:48 pm EDT
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,...
CSE defends network security as Tories press on Huawei concerns
telecom | 09/20/2018 8:51 pm EDT
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...
Ottawa conducting security tests on Huawei equipment: report
Media | 09/07/2018 4:04 pm EDT
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...
Five Eyes sends warning on access to encrypted data
Media | 09/05/2018 9:21 pm EDT
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...
Despite paper ballot, election hacking vulnerabilities exist
telecom | 09/04/2018 11:55 am EDT
To bolster Canada’s democratic defences before the next election, governmental departments, political organizations, research groups and private industry tasked with that goal need to contend with a menagerie of cyber threats, experts from security field tell the The Wire...
Social media threats challenge gov’t, platforms ahead of election
Media | 08/30/2018 3:12 pm EDT
In the three years since the last Canadian federal election, emerging...
Gov’t announces cybersecurity, connected cars funding
telecom | 08/13/2018 5:12 pm EDT
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...
North America to see brunt of 146 billion data breach cases: Juniper
telecom | 08/08/2018 4:54 pm EDT
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...
Facebook facing £500,000 fine in privacy scandal
telecom | 07/11/2018 6:17 pm EDT
After the British Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found that Facebook Inc. had “security...
Cybersecurity expertise gap ‘global risk’: report
telecom | 07/11/2018 5:32 pm EDT
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 lobbying on online ads in wake of proposed elections bill
Media | 07/09/2018 1:17 pm EDT
Twitter Inc. wants to make sure the government understands how online...
Internet satisfaction high, but 27% don’t know their data caps: CIRA
Media | 06/20/2018 6:20 pm EDT
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...
Petition calls for empowered agency to compel deletion of false ads
telecom | 06/20/2018 6:10 pm EDT
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....
Lack of cybersecurity framework mind-boggling: Telus exec
telecom | 06/04/2018 8:09 pm EDT
TORONTO — A security executive at Telus Corp. told an industry conference on Monday that industry and government must work together to put in place a national framework for cybersecurity in Canada.
“It boggles my mind...that we’re still lacking even a basic...
Fewer businesses worried about data breaches: OPC
telecom | 06/01/2018 3:57 pm EDT
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...
There’s space for ‘positive’ political targeting, Wylie tells MPs
Media | 05/30/2018 1:43 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Whistleblower and data scientist Christopher Wylie testified at...
Cybersecurity start-up gets gov’t funding
Media | 05/29/2018 4:00 pm EDT
The federal and Quebec governments are putting roughly half a million dollars into a cybersecurity...
Security, data concerns drive two-phone phenomenon: Bell CEO
Media | 05/16/2018 11:16 am EDT
As stories about security and personal data breaches make the headlines,...
Facebook data leak could affect Canadian elections: Therrien
Media | 04/17/2018 5:03 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner told the House of Commons ethics committee Tuesday that the data of the roughly 620,000 Canadians used by Cambridge Analytica could theoretically be used to influence a Canadian election, and called for more oversight of data use by...
Blockchain tech could stop connected car cyber-threat: Carleton prof
telecom | 04/12/2018 5:27 pm EDT
OTTAWA — So-called Sybil attacks are a significant potential...
Facebook talks election security after tough week
Media | 03/29/2018 5:52 pm EDT
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...
NDP targets net neutrality, data and privacy rights in new motion
telecom | 03/28/2018 7:21 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Members of the federal NDP introduced a sweeping motion...
Internet Society establishes lobby footing in Canada
Media | 03/27/2018 6:32 pm EDT
A decades-old organization that is pushing for a multilateral approach to decision-making on the future...
SNC-Lavalin and Carleton partnering on power plant cybersec
telecom | 03/26/2018 5:17 pm EDT
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. and Carleton University have signed a memorandum of...
Phishing, DDoS attacks still dogging Canadian businesses: CIRA
telecom | 03/23/2018 3:50 pm EDT
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)...
Questions remain about CSE public info use, Cambridge Analytica
Media | 03/23/2018 10:46 am EDT
OTTAWA — Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan couldn’t tell MPs or reporters...
OPC investigating Facebook as gov’t responds to privacy concerns
Media | 03/21/2018 6:20 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Revelations over the weekend that Facebook Inc. data was used...
Default credentials factor in hospital software security breaches: McAfee
telecom | 03/21/2018 5:15 pm EDT
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 security company McAfee has found. The March study discovered those incidents were up 210 per cent compared to the previous year, despite a 78 per cent decrease in the fourth quarter. “In analyzing the attacks, McAfee Advanced Threat Research experts concluded that many of the incidents...
Huawei concerns raised in Parliament
Media | 03/21/2018 4:52 pm EDT
The issue of whether a Chinese telecom equipment maker poses a security threat by operating in Canada is...
Citing nat’l security, Trump blocks attempted Qualcomm takeover
telecom | 03/13/2018 4:54 pm EDT
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...
LTE open to numerous security flaws: paper
telecom | 03/06/2018 4:03 pm EST
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...
Import standards on IoT devices a good idea, cyber experts say
telecom | 03/05/2018 5:21 pm EST
OTTAWA — Experts praised the idea of stricter standards for imported...
Budget’s cybersec plans invoke questions about transparency: professor
telecom | 02/28/2018 7:08 pm EST
As the federal government announced schemes to bolster Canadian cybersecurity in Tuesday’s budget, with a new strategy and two centralized agencies, legal experts are asking...
Cybersecurity, LEO satellites, data on OTT services in federal budget
Media | 02/27/2018 4:21 pm EST
OTTAWA — The 2018 federal budget, released Tuesday afternoon, includes...
NG911 operators should plan ahead for cyberattacks: CRTC
telecom | 02/23/2018 5:20 pm EST
The CRTC is encouraging emergency operators to harden next generation 911...
Security data overwhelming Canadian IT depts: Cisco
telecom | 02/23/2018 2:13 pm EST
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...
C-59 CSE hacking powers could put Canadians at risk: OpenMedia
telecom | 02/09/2018 2:06 pm EST
OTTAWA — The Canadian Security Establishment (CSE) could inadvertently be...
Trend Micro and Telus combine forces against cyber threats
telecom | 02/02/2018 5:48 pm EST
Japanese cyber security company Trend Micro Inc. and Telus Corp. have...
Alphabet takes aim at cybercrime
telecom | 01/25/2018 4:16 pm EST
In a blog post on Wednesday, Alphabet Inc.’s ‘moonshot factory’ X announced the details of its...
10M Canadians affected by cybercrime in 2017: Symantec report
telecom | 01/24/2018 5:37 pm EST
Within the last year, 10.14 million Canadians were affected by cybercrime,...
‘Worrying’ trend of data breaches ‘must stop’: NDP
telecom | 01/24/2018 5:21 pm EST
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...
Up to 100K customers potentially affected by Bell data breach
telecom | 01/23/2018 6:22 pm EST
BCE Inc. has reported a second data breach in less than twelve months, sending emails to customers Tuesday morning to inform them their information may have been compromised.
According to cybersecurity expert Imran Ahmad, a partner at law firm Miller Thomson LLP,...