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ServiceNow has announced generative AI integrations and new features as part of the Vancouver release of its Now Platform. Today’s release comes less than six months after the Utah release (the company names its releases after world locations, in alphabetical order). “This Now Platform release is designed to give our customers exactly what they need,

In a series of announcements and presentations at SAS Explore last week, SAS unveiled innovations and partnerships that aim to reshape industries ranging from data analytics to fraud detection to climate monitoring. The event kicked off with SAS executives revealing the company's foray into the realm of generative AI. Udo Sglavo, SAS vice president of

Canada's privacy commissioner received 681 reports of corporate data breaches in its last fiscal year, up six per cent over the previous 12-month period. And again, the financial sector (including banks, trust companies credit unions and mortgage brokers) accounted for the highest number -- 27 per cent -- followed by telecommunications providers (17 per cent),

(On Monday I moderated a panel on ransomware at the annual SIBOS conference of the Swift IT messaging financial network, which this year is being held in Toronto. Some 8,000 business and technology executives from financial institutions around the world are here. Panel members included Adam Evans, senior vice president and chief information security officer

Canada's national airline has admitted suffering what is says was a "brief" breach of security controls, although the statement from Air Canada doesn't say when the incident happened or how much personal information the attacker accessed. "An unauthorized group briefly obtained limited access to an internal Air Canada system related to limited personal information of

Rogers announced today that it is using SpaceX’s Swarm service, which provides low-bandwidth satellite connectivity to IoT devices, in order to deploy satellite-connected sensors to better predict wildfires in remote areas of British Columbia without wireless networks. The telco announced that it will also equip network towers with California-based Pano AI’s cameras that can detect

Canada's border control agency is the latest federal department to confirm it was hit by a recent wave of denial of service attacks. "The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) can confirm that connectivity issues that affected kiosks and electronic gates at airports on Sunday, September 17, 2023 are the result of a distributed denial of

Dell unleashed its executive heavyweights yesterday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC), with the appearance of Michael Dell, founder, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Dell Technologies and John Roese, the company’s chief technology officer (CTO) at a day-long partner and customer event. The two were the headline act of the Toronto stop

A new cyber attack campaign is leveraging the PowerShell script associated with a legitimate red teaming tool to plunder NTLMv2 hashes from compromised Windows systems primarily located in Australia, Poland, and Belgium.