January 15, 2024
IT World Canada strikes partnership with Canadian Cybersecurity Network
Two of Canada’s biggest cybersecurity news and events providers have struck a partnership to better serve infosec pros.
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January 15, 2024
Two of Canada’s biggest cybersecurity news and events providers have struck a partnership to better serve infosec pros.
January 8, 2024
No foolproof method exists so far for protecting artificial intelligence systems from misdirection, warns an American standards body, and AI developers and users should be wary of any who claim otherwise. The caution comes from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in a new guideline for application developers on vulnerabilities of predictive
January 4, 2024
Intel and global investment firm DigitalBridge Group yesterday announced the formation of Articul8 AI, an independent company offering enterprise customers what was described as a “full-stack, vertically-optimized and secure generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software platform designed to keep customer data, training, and inference within the enterprise security perimeter.” It will be available in the cloud,
January 4, 2024
Healthcare providers covered by Ontario's privacy law have an extra incentive to follow provincial data protection regulations: They now face administrative fines for serious violations of the provincial law. As of Jan. 1, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario can issue penalties of up to a maximum of $50,000 for individuals and $500,000 for
January 4, 2024
A major cybersecurity company is urging governments to forbid all organizations in their countries from paying ransomware gangs, arguing it would at least make crooks shift from hitting critical infrastructure providers such as hospitals, utilities and schools. Emsisoft made the plea Monday in releasing final -- and record -- ransomware numbers for 2023 for the
January 4, 2024
The LockBit ransomware gang has started releasing data it says was stolen last month from a Quebec university. The data is from the University of Sherbrooke, with a student body of about 31,000 and 8,200 faculty and staff. Sherbrooke is a city about a two-hour drive east of Montreal. Asked in an email to comment
December 17, 2023
The Benefit Delivery Modernization (BDM) program, the largest IT transformation initiative ever undertaken by the Government of Canada, was estimated to cost $1.75 billion when it launched in 2017. Five years later, the cost estimate reached $2.2 billion, and chances are it will be revised again, as delays and challenges persist, deplored Andrew Hayes, deputy
December 17, 2023
Threat actors are misusing OAuth-based applications as an automation tool for authentication, says Microsoft. "Threat actors compromise user accounts to create, modify, and grant high privileges to OAuth applications that they can misuse to hide malicious activity," the company said in a blog this week. "The misuse of OAuth also enables threat actors to maintain
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