Privacy

Data brokers typically collect a wide range of personal data, which is supposed to be anonymized. However, the sheer volume and specificity of the...

Toronto’s public library system has acknowledged that the ransomware gang that hit it last month stole personally identifiable data of employees. “At this point in our investigation we believe current and former staff employed by Toronto Public Library (TPL) and the Toronto Public Library Foundation (TPLF) from 1998 are impacted,” the library said Tuesday. “Information

Six days after being asked for comment, the government of Ontario is still considering a public response to recent cyber attacks on hospitals in the province. Last week, an IT World Canada reporter asked for comment from the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery on the ransomware attack on five southwestern Ontario hospitals that

Moneris, which runs a payment card data network used by hundreds of thousands of Canadian businesses, says it prevented access to cri

This episode reports on a sophisticated OT and IT attack on Ukraine by Russia's Sandworm gang, how failing to patch a firewall fast led to a regulatory fine

Ontario’s privacy commissioner is looking into the ransomware attack that hit five hospitals linked to a common shared IT provider. “Our office is actively investigating the recent ransomware attacks on the affected hospitals in Southwestern Ontario,” the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario said in a statement Thursday. “We intend to issue

The five southwestern Ontario hospitals and their shared services provider hit by ransomware won’t be able to restore full IT services — including rebuilding the IT network — for over a month, if not longer, according to a statement from the affected institutions. In fact, crucial medical charting of patients won’t be restored until mid-December,

Because a determined threat actor will likely penetrate any organization, the prime goal of a cybersecurity plan should be getting quickly back online, a Canadian expert told a telecom industry conference this week. “You are not invulnerable. No one is,” Robert Beggs, president of DigitalDefence, a Waterloo, Ont.,-based incident response and penetration testing firm, told