By Christine Persaud
World Password Day, created by Intel, is historically the first Thursday in May, which is Thursday, May 2 this year. The event was devised to raise awareness about how important it is to create secure passwords. Cyberthreats continue to evolve and cyber criminals are becoming more dangerous.
By Yasmin Ranade
Cybersecurity fitness can be considered more of a metaphor. This metaphor likens cybersecurity practices to physical fitness routines. Just like you can stay fit physically, you can stay fit within the cybersecurity world. Consider these three topics – warm-up, workout, and self-defense.
By Yasmin Ranade
Since working more from home, remote employees have been cutting IT out of the loop, which according to HP’s report has led to an increase in compromised machines, with 66 per cent of Canadian IT teams agreeing that protecting against, detecting and recovering from firmware attacks has become more difficult.
by Lee Rickwood
Canada is one of several countries around the world looking at new ways – new laws – to address online speech. Canadians should speak up on the matter.
By Yasmin Ranade
Ransomware is a form of digital extortion, first introduced in 2007. While we may not be hearing about attacks as significant as WannaCry and NotPetya, ransomware cases that are reported indicate evolving approaches and hint at brewing underground activity – the silent evolution,
by Lee Rickwood
The government is collaborating with academia and the private sector to tackle the economic, societal and technical challenges to a safe and resilient Internet head on.
by Lee Rickwood
AssemblyLine helps automate and customize the search for harmful files, helping IT security people quickly identify uninfected files and let them focus their energy on fighting the most harmful ones.
by Lee Rickwood
A major disinformation and cyber-espionage campaign with “a strong Russian nexus” uses techniques that target consumer gadgets and digital devices, including iPhones.