Cybersecurity

Healthcare is in poor shape when it comes to cybersecurity. Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that the healthcare industry will spend $65 billion cumulatively over five years, from 2017 to 2021, on cybersecurity products and services. But after paying all those bills, many hospitals will not pass their cyber physicals. “What does…

Hundreds of popular websites now offer some form of multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help users safeguard access to accounts when their password is breached or stolen. But people who don’t take advantage of these added safeguards may find it far more difficult to regain access when their account gets…

FortiGuard Labs Threat Analysis  Affected platforms:     Windows 10 & Windows Server 2019 Impacted parties:        Windows 10 version 1809 + and Windows Server version 1903 + Impact:                        Privilege Escalation & User-Privacy Settings Violation Severity level:              Important On…

Deception is a two-part process involving a “distraction” and a “decoy”. For many Canadians, COVID-19 represents a multi-dimensional distraction that’s simultaneously impacting numerous aspects of life, and these distracting effects are especially pronounced when they stroke matters that mean most to their victims. There has been enough public education to…

Almost every day there is a new data breach, cyberattack, or IT security concern. With the rise of readily available hacking tools, cybercriminals can conduct sophisticated attacks at scale and at a low cost. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center received a total of 467,361 complaints with reported losses exceeding…

St. Petersburg, Fla. – Nov. 16, 2019 2019 kicked off with distributed denial of service attacks up 84 percent in the first quarter — let’s take a look at other DDoS attack statistics and how experts think 2020 will fare. Even if you don’t know what DDoS attacks are, you’ve…

Cybersecurity Risk Assessment should be a hot topic these days. How else can you not only convince your board and management team that you need to do something to protect against cyber-attacks, but also be able to communicate for once in a language they understand Cybersecurity Risk assessment is used…

TORONTO, June 3, 2020 – The CIO Strategy Council is pleased to announce the approval of  a new National Standard of Canada that specifies minimum requirements on the design and performance of data protection solutions. The National Standard of Canada, CAN/CIOSC 100-1:2020, Data governance – Part 1: Data protection of digital assets, covers fundamental characteristics and…

There have been almost 500 documented geopolitical cyber attacks around the world since 2009. Making cyberwarfare a major technological threat to nations and their citizens. In this article, we hope to break down some of the numbers and gain insight into the nature of these attacks, where they originate from,…

Have you been pwned? In other words, have any of your username / password combinations been stolen during any of the many data breaches in recent years? Chances are, they probably have, and it’s also likely you didn’t take the proper precaution of changing your password to a more secure…