Cybersecurity

As two thirds struggle to spot scams, Interac equips Canadians with the 1-2 punch to fight fraud TORONTO, ON–As Canada’s tech-celeration offers more opportunities for fraudsters to strike, a recent survey by Interac Corp. (Interac) revealed that over nine in 10 Canadians (91 percent) have experienced digital fraud attempts in …

69 percent of business decision-makers believe that AI technologies have increased the threat level to organizations; 70 percent believe the federal government has a responsibility to do more to help businesses protect themselves against the latest threats. TORONTO , ON–Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, revealed the results of …

TORONTO, ON–Canadians’ sensitive data stored on social media platforms are at risk of being compromised according to Home Ice Advantage: Securing Data Sovereignty for Canadians on Social Media discussion paper and survey published by the Cybersecure Policy Exchange at Ryerson University. Many popular platforms, such as Facebook and TikTok, transfer …

TORONTO, ON–After months of abusing the COVID-19 theme in their campaigns, cybercriminals appear to have returned to their usual tactics in the third quarter of 2020. And according to ESET’s just released Q3 2020 Threat Report an area where the risks remain particularly high is remote work. ESET telemetry showed …

OAKVILLE, ON–Canadian businesses may be a little too confident in their information security practices. And that could pose problems both internally and with their customers that companies need to address. These findings, and others, are contained in Shred-it’s 10th annual Data Protection Report (formerly “The Security Tracker: State of the …