TORONTO, April 11, 2014 /CNW/ – From the first reports of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug earlier this week, IT departments have scrambled to reduce their exposure to the risk and notify concerned users…
(email helpline now available at Heartbleed.ca) TORONTO, April 8, 2014 /CNW/ – A security advisory for the Internet’s most popular encryption library warns of a simple software bug that has the…
TORONTO, April 3, 2014 /CNW/ – Almost a year after the Snowden revelations began surfacing, as many as half of Canadian executives and business owners are still unaware that ongoing Internet…
TORONTO, March 17, 2014 /CNW/ – A company’s information assets can amount to 80% or more of its value. For many Canadian companies, the intangible nature of sensitive data can present significant…
TORONTO, March 12, 2014 /CNW/ – Using armies of infected computers, criminals launch overwhelming attacks that victimize hundreds of companies daily (digitalattackmap.com), costing data centres an…
TORONTO, March 10, 2014 /CNW/ – External IT security & privacy compliance check-ups are considered basic practices in every industry sector. Weekly revelations of damaging data breaches in retail,…
TORONTO, March 14, 2014 /CNW/ – Many of the security and privacy breaches from the past year have been traced to failures to protect data. Surprisingly, responsibility fell on trusted third parties…
TORONTO, Jan. 27, 2014 /CNW/ – In the wake of the colossal Target security breach that compromised over 100 million customer accounts and may yet impact hundreds of thousands of Canadian consumers,…
TORONTO, Jan. 13, 2013 /CNW/ – Recent security breaches at Target, Neiman Marcus and at least three other large retail chains are estimated to top 100 million cardholders and their personal…
TORONTO, Dec. 20, 2013 /CNW/ – With an estimated sales growth of 14% over last Christmas, retailers and ecommerce vendors are expecting a revenue boost this holiday season. But according to experts…
