Cybersecurity

On June 14, 2022 the Government of Canada introduced Bill C-26, An Act Respecting Cyber Security in an effort to “protect Canada’s critical infrastructure”. While Part 1 of Bill C-26 amends the Telecommunications Act and Canada Evidence Act, Part 2 enacts the Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act (“CCSPA” or the “Act”), which would provide a new framework…

Many experts believe that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have played a critical role in developing and fortifying cybersecurity. As the world turns more digital and connected through the internet, cybercrimes have increased in number and sophistication. Human brainpower alone is not enough to manage these growing and…

AFTER YEARS OF tantalizing hints that a passwordless future is just around the corner, you’re probably still not feeling any closer to that digital unshackling. Ten years into working on the issue, though, the FIDO Alliance, an industry association that specifically works on secure authentication, thinks it has finally identified the missing piece…

One cryptography expert said that ‘serious flaws’ in the way Samsung phones encrypt sensitive material, as revealed by academics, are ’embarrassingly bad.’ Samsung shipped an estimated 100 million smartphones with botched encryption, including models ranging from the 2017 Galaxy S8 on up to last year’s Galaxy S21. Researchers at Tel…

Working from home has become a norm worldwide since the onset of the pandemic. Per Owl Lab’s report, 56 percent of global companies are now fully remote or hybrid companies. Even in the new normal, remote work is projected to remain prevalent across multiple sectors. However, while remote work setup…

Using data gathered from analyzing more than one billion sites, the 2022 State of Phishing and Online Fraud Report highlights the trends that drove digital scams in 2021. In this, the company’s third year of tracking phishing and scam data, we can see with no uncertainty how the pandemic has…

The Greek data protection authority has imposed fines of 5,850,000 EUR ($6.55 million) to COSMOTE and 3,250,000 EUR ($3.65 million) to OTE, for leaking sensitive customer communication due to a cyberattack. As the agency says in an announcement, COSMOTE infringed at least eight articles of the GDPR, including violating its duty to…

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced rapid changes on corporate cybersecurity functions. Chief information-security officers (CISOs) have had to adjust their strategies to account for remote working, pivoting from working on routine tasks to working on long-term goals of establishing secure connections for remote situations. Managing business continuity has been the…

The COVID-19 pandemic has expedited the use of digital tools in business and the home. These advances in digitalization have led to increasingly frequent, costly and damaging cyber incidents. The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2022 presents critical findings from 120 global cyber leaders on how to shift from…

Where do we go from here? As we head into 2022, the nation and the world ponder that question on topics ranging from the spread of the omicron coronavirus variant to new job prospects to the rise of inflation and interest rates to when international travel will return to pre-pandemic…