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CHRONIQUE / Le 1er juin 1903, une foule curieuse se rend au Royal Institution de Londres pour y entendre, stupéfaite, un message en morse émis «sans-fil» sur les ondes radio par Guglielmo Marconi, depuis Cornwall, à 480 km de là. Mais à l’insu de l’assistance, le message reçu par son collègue — le physicien John Ambrose Fleming — n’est pas du tout celui qui est prévu.

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CAE announced today that it is investing in its Canadian pilot training network to meet the increased demand for pilots with the upcoming deployment of a B777 full-flight simulator (FFS) at its Toronto training centre. The move follows the installation and start of customer training on new B737 MAX and B787 FFSs at the expanded Toronto site.

The auditor general will release reports on Tuesday assessing the government’s performance on a range of issues, including reducing chronic homelessness. Other reports will focus on emergency management in First Nations communities, Arctic waters surveillance, and cybersecurity of personal information on the cloud.

American authorities have charged a 33-year-old Russian-Canadian living north of Toronto over his alleged participation in a global ransomware operation. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday said the Bradford, Ont., resident is currently in custody in Canada and is awaiting extradition to the United States.

Canadians use the Internet for financial transactions, to connect with friends and family, attend medical appointments and work. As Canadians spend more time and do more on the Internet, the opportunities grow for cyber threat activity to impact their daily lives. There's been a rise in the amount of personal, business and financial data available online, making it a target for cyber threat actors. This trend towards connecting important systems to the Internet increases the threat of service disruption from cyber threat activity. ...

Un employé sur cinq est même convaincu qu'il ne peut pas être la cible au travail d'un cybercriminel. Ces résultats ne sont peut-être pas étrangers à une autre constatation : dans une proportion similaire, 30 % des employés québécois indiquent qu'aucune formation en cybersécurité n'est prodiguée sur leur lieu de travail.

A new Statistics Canada report says 18 per cent of Canadian businesses were impacted by cybersecurity incidents last year, down from 21 per cent in 2019, as they spent more money to prevent attacks.